One of the key aspects of a professional wrestling show is the commentary team. That is the team that adds a key element in helping the audience viewing from their homes have a good experience. The commentary duo that does that in NXT is the team of WWE Hall of Famer Booker T and his partner, Vic Joseph.
During the latest episode of the Cheap Heat Podcast with Pete Rosenberg, Vic Joseph praised his colleague Booker T. Joseph claimed that the WWE Hall of Famer was the perfect partner for him.
“Let me throw it to you this way, I had one of the music producers that always brings in a Sexyy Red or a HARDY or a Jelly Roll, he came up to me and he said, ‘Hey man, I gotta tell you, you make our job so much easier because you when you told Book when Sexyy Red came out in June that if he stood up, he was gonna tip over the table, we lost it,’ and I did live on-air and that’s the other part is I have so much freedom with Book. Wade Barrett got my confidence back, right? Wade and Beth (Phoenix) both did.
“I got my master’s degree. Working with Book, I’m getting my doctorate, and he is the perfect broadcast colleague for me to work with right now because at the end of the day, going back to what he (podcast co-host) said about Raw, falls on me and so, I have him ready to go and I trust whatever he’s gonna say.” [H/T POST Wrestling]
Vic Joseph: I never know anything Booker T is going to say
Joseph also shared that he never knows what Booker T is saying and he goes with the flow.
“I just have to be able to pick it up and run with it and that’s the beauty of it because when he says something, I don’t know what he’s gonna say. I never know anything Booker T is going to say, hand to God, any week we’re on Tuesdays and what you’re hearing from me is my actual genuine reaction and it is. It’s the best broadcast partner I’ve ever worked with in any sport, in anything now. I can’t say enough good things about Booker, and you (Peter Rosenberg) worked with him on the Countdown shows. You don’t know what he’s gonna say, or how he’s gonna act and that’s part of the fun.”
Cody Rhodes gave a useful advice to Vic Joseph
During the same episode, Joseph mentioned that he received a piece of advice from Cody Rhodes after it was revealed that the WWE Hall of Famer was going to be his partner in crime on Tuesday nights.
“Cody Rhodes told me when the switch happened. I was in Italy actually, when all this switching went on and two years ago, I was on my honeymoon and I got a text from Shawn Michaels and it said, ‘Can you work with Booker?’ ‘Yeah, sure. Cool. I’ll see you when I get back’ and it has been off and running ever since with him. I mean, it is so fun to work with him and Cody Rhodes told me, ‘You have to let Book be Book. Do not have him play wrassler/broadcast analyst 101. Just let Booker be Booker,’” Vic Joseph said.
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