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<p>One of the most iconic brawls in WWE history was the one between <strong>Booker T </strong>and <strong>Stone Cold Steve Austin </strong>which took place inside a grocery store. After the invasion of WCW superstars in WWE, Austin became one of the top babyfaces and immediately went after the newest WWE employee Booker T.</p>



<p><strong>Bruce Prichard</strong>, who worked backstage for WWE at that time, talked about that brawl in the latest episode of his <em>Something to Wrestle</em> podcast, and answered a few questions about how the whole thing went through.</p>



<p>According to Prichard, the whole brawl wasn&#8217;t as expensive as many felt it would be, and only cost a few thousand dollars to the company. The fact that it took place inside a real store helped the matters, as they avoided the costs of recreating a whole store on a TV set.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p><em>&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;d probably add up the food and repairing a few things. It wasn&#8217;t that expensive</em>.<em>When you look at the costs of trying to recreate that in another world, actually being able to go into a grocery store and for them to allow us, the use of their store gave you that sense of reality. It didn&#8217;t look like Guy&#8217;s Grocery Games on the Food Network or anything like that. It was a real grocery store. They were kind enough to open their doors to us. Let us shoot that segment with Booker and Stone Cold. But it probably cost a few thousand dollars.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>



<p>The scene is part of several such iconic moments from the Attitude Era involving Stone Cold, who once beat up Vince McMahon in a hospital, brought a truck full of beer, among other things.</p>



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<p>The current WWE landscape is devoid of such eventful backstage drama, and a small dose of outlandish segments like this will help WWE to connect with the fans in a better way.</p>


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