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Booker T (wrestler)

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Booker T. Huffman Jr.[a] (born March 1, 1965 in Houston, Texas), better known by his ring names Booker T and King Booker, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, working on their NXT brand as a commentator and also founded and owns his wrestling promotion, Reality Of Wrestling. Aside from WWE, he is also known for wrestling for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1993-2001 and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2007-2009.

Booker T
Ring name(s)Black Snow[1]
Booker
Booker T[2]
GI Bro[3]
King Booker[4]
Kole[5]
Billed height6 ft 3 in[6]
Billed weight256 lb[6]
BornMarch 1, 1965 (aged 61)
Plain Dealing, Bossier, Louisiana, U.S.[7]
Billed from110th Street in Harlem, New York
Houston, Texas[6]
Trained byIvan Putski
Scott Casey
Debut1986
RetiredJanuary 28, 2023[8]

Booker T has held many championships in his career. He most famously is a six-time world champion (five-time WCW Champion and one time WWE World Heavyweight Champion), an 18-time tag team champion (13 times teaming with his brother Stevie Ray as Harlem Heat), a six-time WCW Television Champion, a four-time United States champion, and the winner of the 2006 King of the Ring. In January 2011 he returned to WWE as a surprise entrant during the Royal Rumble. He is one of seven men to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame two times.

Championships and accomplishments

King Booker as World Heavyweight Champion, with his wife Queen Sharmell
Booker T as TNA Legends Champion

Booker T (wrestler) Media

  • Booker T (left) as part of the Main Event Mafia in TNA. At this time Booker was the TNA Legends (later Television) Champion

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  • Booker T at GalaxyCon in March 2025

  • Booker T with his wife Sharmell in 2009

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See:
  2. ↑ Booker T's fifth WCW World Heavyweight Championship reign happened in the WWF, where it was known as the WCW Championship.
  3. ↑ Booker T's eleventh WCW World Tag Team Championship reign happened in the WWF, where it was known as the WCW Tag Team Championship.

References

  1. ↑ Caldwell, James. Caldwell's AEW report 1/29: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of Spike TV broadcast...on Friday afternoon. Pro Wrestling Torch (January 30, 2009). Retrieved July 27, 2021.
  2. ↑ Booker T WWE bio. WWE. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
  3. ↑ GI Bro vs. Mike Awesome - Ambulance Match: Nitro, May 29, 2000. WWE. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ King Booker's bioWorld Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
  5. ↑ Booker T.: Profile & Match Listing – Internet Wrestling Database (IWD)Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Booker T bioWorld Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  7. ↑ Huffman, Booker T with Andrew William Wright. Booker T: From Prison to Promise: Life Before the Squared Circle (2012). Aurora, Ill: Medallion Press. ISBN 978-1605424682.
  8. ↑ 411Mania.
  9. ↑ Harlem Heat Will Be Honored in Las Vegas – Cauliflower Alley Club. www.caulifloweralleyclub.org. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ GWF Tag Team Championship history. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  11. ↑ TNA Wrestler profiles – Booker T. Bodyslamming.com. Retrieved October 17, 2008.
  12. ↑ PWA Hysteria Results. PWAWrestling.com. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 PWI Awards. Pro Wrestling IllustratedKappa Publishing Group. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  14. ↑ Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2001Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  15. ↑ Royal Duncan & Gary Will. Wrestling Title Histories (2000)Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  16. ↑ RoW Tag Team Title (Houston) (in en). Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 TNA championship histories. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Droste, Ryan. Impact! Results – 1/14/06 (Christian & Rhino vs. AMW, Sting is heard). WrestleView (January 15, 2006). Retrieved June 20, 2012.
  19. ↑ WCW World Heavyweight Championship history (October 17, 2008)World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  20. ↑ WCW World Television Championship history. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 WWE United States Championship history. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  22. ↑ WCW World Tag Team Championship history. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  23. ↑ King Booker's first World Heavyweight Championship reignWorld Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved April 18, 2009.
  24. ↑ World Tag Team Championship historyWorld Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  25. ↑ Booker T's first Intercontinental Championship reign. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  26. ↑ WWE Intercontinental Championship. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  27. ↑ WWE Hardcore Championship historyWorld Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  28. ↑ King of the Ring Tournaments – PPV & TV Tournaments. prowrestlinghistory.com.
  29. ↑ Melok, Bobby. Harlem Heat to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2019 (March 11, 2019)WWE. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
  30. ↑ Meltzer, Dave. Biggest issue of the year: The 2011 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards Issue. Wrestling Observer Newsletter (January 26, 2011). Campbell, CA. p. 1–40.
  31. ↑ Alvarez, Bryan. WOR: 2017 WRESTLING OBSERVER NEWSLETTER AWARDS DISCUSSION AND MORE!. Wrestling Observer Newsletter (March 15, 2018). Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  32. ↑ Meltzer, Dave. February 26, 2024 Observer Newsletter: 2023 Observer Awards issue. Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved February 23, 2024.

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