Booker T on WWE departures: “All these years, do you remember one Aleister Black match?”

Not that I couldn’t do anything with Aleister Black or anything like that—it’s just that we’ve got so many people to do stuff with, especially right now. We’ve got so many people coming up to do stuff with, you know, just the influx from NXT.

And that’s what guys have got to understand: if you’re not the mega star, the top five, you can have a problem. Because one thing about guys that have been around for 10-plus years, and they’re not in that top five, and these young guys are coming in—who do you think they’re going to be looking to remove?”

But I wasn’t worried about getting cut because I felt like I was one of those guys that was, you know, selling tickets. I felt like I was one of those guys that was moving the needle.

The thing is, you may not have to move the needle too far. You just may have to slightly move the needle in order for the company to say, ‘Okay, we know we’re making money with this guy.’

I think that’s what it boils down to at the end of the day, more than anything.”