Booker T/Batista fight

[Matt Hare]

[Credit: WWE.com]

Fight breaks out at SummerSlam commercial shoot
May 8, 2006

SmackDown Superstars Batista and Booker T got into a knockdown, drag-out fight Monday afternoon on the set of World Wrestling Entertainment’s SummerSlam commercial shoot in Encino, California. Director of WWE Television Promotions, John Gaburick, tells WWE.com the fight broke out during the filming of a scene in the commercial which will be used to promote SummerSlam later this year. “The fight lasted at least five minutes, it was a brutal, bloody, vicious affair,” says Gaburick. “It took JBL, Mark Henry, Chris Benoit, Finlay and road agent Ricky Steamboat to finally break things up.”

Gaburick says, “Both men were banged up pretty good, both men were bloodied up.” After the fight, Booker T and Batista went behind closed doors to try and clear the air. Gaburick says both Booker T and Batista finished their required work on the commercial before leaving the set. When asked what the fight was about, Gaburick would only say “it’s a personal issue between two men.”

The SummerSlam commercial was filmed Sunday using RAW Superstars and Monday using SmackDown competitors.

[Jonny Stripes]

Dude, why do you post this with no opinion?

In any case I saw it today and knew it was a work and it has now been confirmed on a variety of other sites. If they wanted it to be believable they needed to get two guys with a track record of dissent and bad boy behaviour...ok, Book man went to prison and held up a bottlo but he was a kid

Batista seems so tame and I can't imagine Booker having a run in with many people. At least it looks like Booker T will win King of the Ring and the title off of Mysterio pretty soon and JBL won't become champion again, which considering his physical state, he doesn't deserve

[Matt Hare]

I posted it without an opinion cause I was delivering the news. And because I don't really have an oponion on it. At first I believed it, then I didn't, then did. So I'm not sure...

[Lemmy Campbell]

Then I should help you decide.

Mike Johnson reports that at Saturday's WWE house show in El Paso, TX Sharmell the wife of Booker T and Melina were involved in a backstage pull apart fight.

Johnson says the fight stemmed from Melina's recent relationship with Batista. Melina has had major backstage heat in recent months for her relationship with Batista and her bad attitude. There is also heat on Johnny Nitro of MNM in regard to the SmackDown! locker room right now. The boys backstage feel Nitro is growing distant from everyone in the locker room since he is now currently dating Melina. It seems that Nitro is always by Melina's side instead of being with the boys. She was even taken to wrestler's court where Undertaker is the judge before a Smackdown taping recently.

JBL of all people was the one who broke the fight up and was the peace maker during the altercation.

I think they had a reall fight, but most probably WWE will turn it a to a story line.

[Jonny Stripes]

Yeah, it seems they did have a real fight...who woulda thunk it aye?

They are alledged to be friends now, though i read at Ringsidemayhem.com that Melina (who has some kind of close relationship to Batista) had a fight with Sharmell