With WWE SummerSlam 2026 just two weeks away, most match plans are likely set in stone. The slate for next 12 months’s iteration, nonetheless, stays wide open. That is why WWE United States Champion Trick Williams is shooting his shot for the 2027 premium live event straight away.
“Within the 12 months 2027, [25] years ago, someone made history. Two black men main-eventing SummerSlam for the primary time ever. Hasn’t been done before. Hasn’t been done since. How’d you prefer to make yourself a two-time foremost event of SummerSlam against one other Black man?” Williams asked on the “Hall of Fame” podcast, addressing WWE Hall of Famer Booker T.
“Not any Black man. That Black man that’s your protege, the one that you simply hand-sculpted yourself and said, ‘Trick Williams, look, that is how you would like to approach the business. That is the way you going to make yourself a superstar, Trick.’ Now, how would you, Booker T, prefer to step into the ring with that Trick Williams, the one who knows he’s a superstar with all of the momentum on the planet, with all of the eyes watching? Left, right, kids, grown folk, it don’t matter. Booker versus Trick Williams, foremost event of SummerSlam for the championship.”
As Williams alluded to, Booker T headlined the 2001 SummerSlam show in a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match against Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, with The Rock winning the title after delivering a Rock Bottom. 24 years later, Booker now primarily serves as a commentator for the “WWE NXT” brand; every so often, the six-time world champion continues to wrestle as well.
Would he lace up his boots over again for a match against Williams, though? In line with Booker himself, he’ll take it under serious consideration.
Booker T Will ‘Never Say Never’ To More Matches
“My thing is I never say never,” Booker said. “I’m never going to shut the book on any chapter, anything like that. I feel like if I can will myself to do it, I’ll do it. If the body’s telling me, ‘Hey, exit here and get this done only one last time,’ I’ll go on the market and get that done. But he gave me a time period, ’27. That offers me time to determine what this 12 months goes to seem like for Booker T so far as can I actually get within the gym and hang and bang? I’m talking about hanging bang hard for just yet another time, form of like Conor McGregor. Can I’ll myself to get within the gym and make it occur? I believe I can.”
Booker’s last in-ring outing for WWE saw him emerge as a surprise entrant within the 2023 Men’s Royal Rumble in San Antonio, Texas. The veteran wrestler quickly targeted The Judgment Day’s Finn Balor and Domink Mysterio, then performed his signature Spin-a-roonie in celebration. That celebration cut short, nonetheless, as “The Ring General” GUNTHER quickly dumped him out of the ring for an elimination.
More recently, Booker competed in a gauntlet match at Reality of Wrestling, his indie promotion based in Houston, in January 2025. Williams, meanwhile, frequently wrestles for WWE, together with his latest in-ring appearance leading to a win over AAA’s Laredo Kid on the Saturday Night’s Important Event pre-show.
The 2026 SummerSlam event will emanate from Minneapolis on August 1 and a pair of. The time and site for the 2027 iteration has yet to be announced.
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