"Welcome to Royalty" - Booker T knights 8-year veteran over 18 years after his King of the Ring win
Booker T is wrestling royalty - mainly because of his legendary wrestling career, but also the fact that he's a former King of the Ring winner. 18 years after that victory, he has knighted an 8-year veteran.
As you probably know, the two-time WWE Hall of Famer runs a wrestling school known as Reality of Wrestling. While it isn't always to send wrestlers to WWE, it's a very clear pipeline for some superstars. Usually, his batch is filled with young guns looking to take the next major step in their career.
One of them is likely the eight-year veteran Edge Stone, who Booker T officially "Knighted" on Reality of Wrestling. It was a huge moment for Edge Stone, who has been with ROW for five years now:
Booker T wants to get another Bloodline member signed to WWE
As we mentioned, ROW can certainly serve as a great way to funnel talent to WWE - with Roxanne Perez being the best example of an ROW graduate making it big.
Another name from ROW that many want to see in the WWE is the real-life Bloodline member Zilla Fatu. Zilla has teamed up with Jacob Fatu several times on the independents and has seemingly had to undergo behavioral changes to be on good terms with Booker T.
On an episode of The Hall of Fame podcast, Booker T said that the current focus is on his promotion, Reality of Wrestling. However, he still wants to try and get Zilla Fatu signed to WWE:
"My thing is this, we concentrate on Reality of Wrestling and our thing is I can’t think about anything other than trying to get that young man, Zilla, because he’s talent, get him to the next level, and the next level for me for Zilla, is the WWE. That’s his landing zone. That’s his safe zone, the WWE and his family. I really believe that...but I’m definitely going to try to get him all the way to the WWE and beyond just because he’s family," said the Hall of Famer. (H/T WrestlingNews.co)
The potential is certainly there, and it looks like it's up to Zilla to get it together and keep his behavior consistent and healthy to succeed. If he's on the right track, signing with WWE seems like an inevitability.