Hall of Fame with Booker T & Brad Gilmore
Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 23 segments
Zilla Fatu just made his WWE debut on NXT — and Booker T knew it was coming. The son of the late Umaga and the newest member of the Anoa'i dynasty to hit the national stage stormed the ring on the…
Booker THost
Brad GilmoreHost
Zilla FatuGuest
Well, obviously there's, there's gonna be a big subject that people are eagerly anticipating and are waiting to hear the result of.
And, and so I, I wanna get, I wanna get your thoughts on that, you know, here in just a minute, you know, because that, that, that's a big thing that happened and we're proud here at Reality Wrestling about it.
Did you realize... 'Cause we're coming off Summer of Champions and, uh, we're, we're heading towards Money in the Bank, of course, which is the next big, uh, WWE premium live event.
Right? Um, but, but what I loved about Summer of Champions, do you realize how many, like, social media, you know, influencers came down for that show? How many videos? I, I saw...
I was looking at statistics and it's like impressions-wise, Summer of Champions is in the millions of impressions already, and this is before we've even released a fully edited episode.
How does that make you feel as, like, a promoter to have created something that actually brings people to fly in from all over the country just to see it?
Um, starting the thing in 2005 down at that huge warehouse downtown, [laughs] um, you know, five wrestling rings, you know, a, a track.
[laughs] We were like, "What, what are we doing here?" And we had about five students.
And, um, next thing you know, um, we got a show, and then w- we wasn't thinking about doing anything like what we have now in Reality Wrestling.
Well, obviously there's, there's gonna be a big subject that people are eagerly anticipating and are waiting to hear the result of.
And, and so I, I wanna get, I wanna get your thoughts on that, you know, here in just a minute, you know, because that, that, that's a big thing that happened and we're proud here at Reality Wrestling about it.
Did you realize... 'Cause we're coming off Summer of Champions and, uh, we're, we're heading towards Money in the Bank, of course, which is the next big, uh, WWE premium live event.
Right? Um, but, but what I loved about Summer of Champions, do you realize how many, like, social media, you know, influencers came down for that show? How many videos? I, I saw...
I was looking at statistics and it's like impressions-wise, Summer of Champions is in the millions of impressions already, and this is before we've even released a fully edited episode.
How does that make you feel as, like, a promoter to have created something that actually brings people to fly in from all over the country just to see it?
Um, starting the thing in 2005 down at that huge warehouse downtown, [laughs] um, you know, five wrestling rings, you know, a, a track.
[laughs] We were like, "What, what are we doing here?" And we had about five students.
And, um, next thing you know, um, we got a show, and then w- we wasn't thinking about doing anything like what we have now in Reality Wrestling.
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