Posted on 4/21/126 by Colin Vassallo
During the latest episode of his Hall of Fame podcast,
Booker T called for WWE to have better security at hotels
during large events such as WrestleMania.
Fans at MGM Grand were super disrespectful and entitled,
mobbing and following WWE Superstars and their family
members everywhere throughout the casino floor and spending
hours outside elevators waiting to take photos and videos.
Booker said it was really hard for him this year navigating
through the massive property and felt bad for the WWE
Superstars who had to perform.
“Because I got mobbed, and I’m not even doing this anymore.
So hopefully we can get that fixed,” Booker T said. He added
that there were fans even following him to the public
bathroom and filming him.
“They were camped out. Everywhere, they were camped out. You
couldn’t walk anywhere. And they were following you,” he
continued. “In the bathroom. I remember the guy literally
was filming me in the bathroom. And when I walked out he
goes, ‘Hey, Booker.’ And I just kept walking because I was
so mad because he was filming me in the bathroom.”
Fellow Hall of Famer X-Pac also said that he was assaulted
by a fan inside the hotel.
“I got physically assaulted & camera shoved in my face,
stalked in the bathroom, & more,” X-Pac wrote on X.
X-Pac was reacting to a video posted by TMZ of CM Punk
slapping the phone away from a fan who was filming his wife
and Bayley sharing a personal moment and he got a little too
close.
“That guy & all the rest like him can get f*cked,” X-Pac
added. “It was insane how these people were.”
There were more incidents like this throughout the week and
it was only when it was almost time to leave that WWE and
hotel security added bodies by elevators to check if they
were guests or not. Fans who were just there to stalk
wrestlers were pushed away and only those who had keys to
their rooms were allowed to go in.