Booker T & Stevie Ray held the WCW World Tag Team Championship a record 10 times -- the most reigns as a tandem in WCW historyIntroduced by towering fireballs, clad in flame-adorned tights and wearing their trademark nose-strips, the brothers complemented each other in style and strength. Watch every Premium Live Event and get unlimited access to WWE's premium content - available to you anywhere, anytime, on any device. The popular pair . From the streets of Harlem, N.Y., came a powerful pair of brothers who terrorized WCW's tag-team ranks throughout much of the 1990s. Booker and Stevie signed to WCW in 1993, where they were initially going to be ex-cons who wore chains to signify their bondage. Do check the Promotions tab if you cannot find it in the Primary Inbox. Stevie Ray Vaughan/Living or Deceased. They . Meanwhile, Booker T would go on to win WCW World Television Championship. Rosey's brother Roman Reigns recently came back from a health scare and is one of the most heavily pushed stars in WWE today. Were going to be discussing that over the new year. On February 26 the Ebony Experience won their third GWF Tag Team championship, becoming the only team to hold that title three times. Harlem Heat was a professional wrestling tag team composed of two brothers, Booker and Lash Huffman (better known as Booker T and Stevie Ray). As 1998 started to roll around, Stevie had to take some time off from WCW from January to June. Details here. Harlem Heat won the WCW World Tag Team Championship three times in 1995, trading the titles with the American Males (Bagwell and Scotty Riggs) in the early fall. In the long run, this didn't weaken Booker T. If anything, it showed he has depth and willing to look like a dork but be actually funny at the same time. Also, Booker T not winning the belt back from The Rock was a mistake. Meet us in Houston. In 2015 Ray was added to WWE 2K16 as DLC. These days in WWE, they go hire Primo, the brother of a wrestler that they never gave a crap about, and they could care even less about Primo himself. "Harlem Heat" Booker T & Stevie Ray Interview 2017!WCW"s "Harlem Heat" team of Stevie Ray and WWE Superstar Booker T share memories of WCW, Sheri Martel Mana. As Booker was getting ganged up on in July, the two reunited Harlem Heat. They formed the legendary Harlem Heat tag-team and are 10-time WCW Tag-Team Champions. Stevie. [49][50] At Clash of the Champions XXXIV on January 21, 1997, Harlem Heat defeated the team of The Renegade and Joe Gomez. Duggan has had multiple runs in the Stamford-based company. [36] At Uncensored, Booker T teamed with Sting to defeat The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) in a street fight to earn Harlem Heat, a title shot against Luger and Sting on the April 22 episode of Nitro,[37] which Harlem Heat lost. [13][14] They lost the match but were over as villains because of the caliber of fan favorites they wrestled. Harlem Heat were in a perpetual bad mood and the expressions really convey that think twice before you cross us. Life hadn't been easy for them. 7 Greatest Tag Team -- is arguably one of WCW's most dominant, most cohesive pairings in history. https://t.co/0zmpbcSVom Dash (@DashWilderWWE) January 1, 2020. [34] This title change was taped on October 11. [67] Harlem Heat 2000 did not find much success as they lost most of their matches including the semifinal match in the tournament for the vacant World Tag Team Championship against the eventual tournament winners Shane Douglas and Buff Bagwell at Spring Stampede and a handicap match against Terry Funk for the Hardcore Championship on the May 10 episode of Thunder. He said: Since I am a tag team extraordinaire, a tag team specialist, 14 tag team championships throughout my reign in this business, so Im looking forward to the tag team division getting crunk in 2020, and I might even manage The Street Profits somewhere along the year. Sensational Sherri) as a manager, who worked under the name Sister Sherri. On the December 27 episode of Nitro, Harlem Heat lost a match to Lash LeRoux and Midnight in a Lethal Lottery tournament for the vacant World Tag Team Championship, after Ray grew tired of Booker's affection towards Midnight and delivered Slapjacks to Booker, LeRoux and Midnight and walked out on the match. RELATED: 5 Reasons Why Harlem Heat Was WCWs Best Tag Team (& 5 Why It Was The Steiner Brothers). [16] At Battlebowl, Kane was randomly partnered with Charlie Norris in a Lethal Lottery qualifying match against Big Van Vader and Cactus Jack in a losing effort. 62 of the 100 best tag teams of the, The Goodfellows (Gary Young and Steve Dane), Sicilian Stallions (Guido Falcone and Vito Mussolini), This page was last edited on 14 April 2023, at 12:19. Claim the offer and place your bets below! He then engaged in a short feud with Chavo Guerrero Jr. over the right to defend the belt before dropping it to Chris Jericho afterwards. A Time Warner Company. When the HOF is over, fans will get to hear what I really think of Dave. In 2005, Stevie Ray and Booker T opened the "Booker T and Stevie Ray Pro Wrestling Academy" in Houston, Texas. Dissension within the team began over Midnight on the December 13 episode of Nitro, where Harlem Heat competed against The Revolution (Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn and Asya) in a handicap match, which they lost when Booker tended to an injured Midnight while ignoring Ray, leaving him to get pinned by Malenko. Booker T and his brother, Stevie Ray, held the WCW Tag Team Championships ten times. Could he not have lobbied to get his brother hired, or did he and they just didn't respond favorably? CNN name, logo and all associated elements and 2023 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. The Road Warriors are one of the greatest tag-teams of all time and dominated pro-wrestling in the late '80s and the '90s. [42] At Fall Brawl, Harlem Heat successfully defended the titles against Nasty Boys. Road Warrior Animal is a 2-time WWE Tag-Team Champion as well as a 4-time Champion in Jim Crockett Promotions which later became WCW. Part of going into the Hall of Fame is the legacy you leave behind and Booker T says that Harlem Heat did just that by paving the way for so many others. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By early 1999, both nWo factions had fused back together, but members of nWo Hollywood started bickering over who the leader of the sub-faction was. Be the first one to comment on this story. Reigns is one of the faces of modern WWE as is a former 4-time world champion, a former Royal Rumble winner as well as a triple crown winner. For years, Harlem Heat comprised of Booker T and Stevie Ray wreaked havoc on WCW's tag team division to the tune of 10 World Tag Team Championship reigns. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of NEWS18.com does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them. People who haven't done anything for this business talking about who should or shouldn't get into the Hall of Fame," stated Booker. 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Fans from the Ruthless Aggression Era all remember Carlito and his legendary vignettes fondly. If you're interested in sports betting, the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Baltimore Ravens this weekend! In Ivan Putski's Western Wrestling Alliance, he first started feuding with his brother, Booker (who was G.I. Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder have been pushing hard on social media for a match against WWE Hall of Fame tag team Harlem Heat following a promo on Booker T back at the TLC Kickoff show. During this time, Stevie and Booker lost the titles to the Nasty Boys, regained them, then lost them to Slater and Buck and regained them again. Are Stevie Ray and Booker T really brothers? During his tenure with the nWo, Stevie Ray would tag team with the likes of Horace Hogan and Scott Norton as well as performing in singles competition, often with Vincent at ringside. In 1997 they feuded with Public Enemy (Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock), The Steiners and the New World Order. That changed when World Championship Wrestling contacted Booker and Stevie Ray. Instead, the two simply went their separate ways, with Booker T expressing support for Stevie Ray even if he personally didnt approve. The two real life siblings who captured the WCW tag team championships 10 times during their illustrious run together and got inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame last year are seriously contemplating a comeback to face The Revival after a recent exchange on the TLC Kickoff show. Get Stevie. After being defeated with a surprise small package, Stevie Ray turned on both Booker T and Midnight by attacking both of them. 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Through the association with his brother, he would gain his only singles title in WCW, as when Booker took time off with an injury as Television Champion from July to October, Stevie got a "power of attorney" to defend the belt for Booker. [12] Ray's last match was at Reality of Wrestling on August 12, 2017, teaming with Abel Andrew Jackson as they lost to Ernest Miller and Ryan Davidson.[13]. [20] On the December 3 episode of WorldWide, Harlem Heat renamed her Sister Sherri. I remember hearing Booker, and Stevie were not in a good place when WCW shut down, but who knows the truth. WWE Hall of Famer Booker T recently recalled the time he and his brother, Stevie Ray, saved Hacksaw Jim Duggan from an angry boyfriend . We have often seen promoters put brothers into a tag-team when they are starting off and gaining experience and some even break away from the tag-team, like Scott Steiner and Jeff Hardy, to find success and gold as a singles star. She subsequently joined Harlem Heat. Around this time, Stevie started helping out Booker T in matches, an angle that climaxed with Stevie Ray saving his brother from a beatdown. However, the WWE Hall of Famers never wrestled together in the Stamford-based company. Likeness: The head sculpts for both Booker T and Stevie Ray are exceptional and some of Mattel's best work this year. [56] Vincent's repeated interferences in matches resulted in Harlem Heat beginning a feud with nWo's Vicious and Delicious (Buff Bagwell and Scott Norton), leading to a match between the two teams at Road Wild. Even the Breathe-Rite strips are sculpted on. Ive got one left in me! The titles were vacated a month later without them ever defending them. [60] During this time, Stevie began attacking Chris Benoit on several occasions, against whom Booker had recently competed in a best-of-seven series to determine the #1 contendership for the World Television Championship. On the July 13 episode of Nitro, Ray claimed the World Television Championship and began defending it by saying that Booker gave him the power of attorney to defend the title as Booker got injured due to being attacked by Bret Hart, the previous night at Bash at the Beach. [Scott] Dawson! Stevie Ray was the oldest, and he took on the burden of looking after Booker. Both of their parents passed when the boys were young, and Booker spent time in prison following an armed robbery in 1987. Pro Wrestling Illustrated, March 1993 issue, p.97. "My think is this: if you've done nothing and contributed zero as far as taking one bump on the road, you don't know who should get in and who shouldn't get in the Hall of Fame.". Stevie resented her help and started disputing with Booker over her. Stevie Ray, best known for his seven-year run (1993-2000) in WCW where he was one half of the tag team Harlem Heat with brother Booker T, is now host of a Houston-based weekly radio talk show called Straight Shooting with Stevie Ray. He also does a podcast called Stand Up for Greatness., Deceased (19541990) Harlem Heat reunited once on the June 15 episode of Nitro, where they unsuccessfully challenged Sting and Kevin Nash for the World Tag Team Championship. He would join the "black & white" in August, effectively turning him heel. Although a match between two of the greatest teams of their respective generations is a mouth watering prospect for fans, Bookers last official bout was on Raw seven years ago, while Stevie Ray has been semi-retired for a long time now although the brothers did reunite for one final match under the banner of Bookers own Reality of Wrestling promotion in February 2015. [57] After that, Harlem Heat resumed their feud with the Steiner Brothers, losing to them at Fall Brawl. But the most notable homegrown team in WCW has got to be Harlem Heat, the team of Booker T and Stevie Ray. Despite being a former Tag-team Champion, he isn't as liked by the WWE Universe as his brother Carlito. The brothers signed with WCW and by 1993 they were appearing as a tag team dubbed the Harlem Heat. Huffman Brothers caught the eye of Skandor Akbar who was involved with the Global Wrestling Federation out of Dallas in 1992. Stevie came back for one more WCW match (a title vs. career match) for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Scott Steiner on the November 27, 2000, edition of WCW Monday Nitro, which he lost. ? Legendary tag team Harlem Heat became 10-time champions during an incredible run in World Championship Wrestling, and the duo of real-life brothers - Booker T and . [23] They continued their feud with the Nasty Boys, leading to a title defense against Nasty Boys at SuperBrawl V. Harlem Heat retained the titles via a disqualification win. They would then fire the Colonel, beat him up, turn face, and enter into a brief feud against Parker's newest team The Amazing French Canadians, a feud they would win. They began feuding with Barry and Kendall Windham as well as The Jersey Triad of Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Kanyon and Bam Bam Bigelow. November 9, 2021. Of these, ten he won as a part of Harlem Heat with his brother, Lash "Stevie Ray" Huffman. Despite having less Tag Team Championship reigns, The Steiner Brothers held on to the belts for more days than Harlem Heat. Midnight would rescue Booker again from Jarrett and Creative Control, after they cost him, his match against Scott Hall at Mayhem. Ray eventually challenged Midnight to a match on the January 6, 2000 episode of Thunder that would decide whether she would stay with Harlem Heat. Booker liked the addition of Midnight while Stevie neglected her help and started arguing with Booker. The title loss was forced due to Booker T suffering a knee injury that needed surgery and time off to recover. Please credit the Hall of Fame podcast and give a H/T to Sportskeeda if you use the above transcription. In July, Kole and Kane changed their names back to Booker T and Stevie Ray. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In the summer of 1997, they fired Sherri and added a new manager, Jacqueline. However, he has been a key backstage figure in WWE since retiring from the ring. 10. Your login session has expired. In 2017, when asked about a possible return to WWE, Carlito said: John Laurinaitis is a legendary figure in pro wrestling but he did not find the same level of success inside the ring as his brother, the legendary Road Warrior Animal. Booker T says an iconic tag team, who featured in both WCW and WWE, deserves to be a part of the WWE Hall of Fame and he's campaigning for them to get the nod. Dawson. WWE on Fox took to their official Twitter handle and posted a video of the interaction between Christian, Renee Young and Booker T, where the veteran wrestler was heard saying, "You know what? The second run with the title lasted a bit longer than a week, but was ultimately short lived as the Rough Riders (Black Bart and Johnny Mantell) won the gold on October 23. On March 30, 2016, Stevie Ray debuted a new weekly radio talk show, Straight Shooting with Stevie Ray which airs on KCOH radio 92.9 FM HD2 every Wednesday. 7 Greatest Tag Team -- is arguably one of WCW's most dominant, most cohesive pairings in history. Lane Huffman(Stevie Ray), and Booker Huffman are real life brothers. After being defeated with a surprise small package, Stevie Ray would turn on both Booker and Midnight to form Harlem Heat, Inc. with Big T, Kash and J. Biggs. Professional wrestling has seen brothers compete since the advent of the art form. Me and my big brother, we talking about it. Stevie Ray would be offered a spot in nWo Hollywood, but was hesitant at first. Today, let's take a look at 5 pairs of real brothers and the separate directions their careers took. Dave Meltzer recently talked about the integrity of the WWE Hall of Fame with wrestlers like Ray and Wilson being inducted. Check out his comments here. Booker T and Stevie Ray started to team together as The Huffman Brothers in Ivan Putski's Western Wrestling Alliance after a brief feud with each other. The former NXT Champion's push lost steam soon after his debut and his "Bo-lieve" gimmick just did not get over with fans on the main roster. The guitar was originally set to be made for Stevie in 1979, but the plan was dropped when Vaughan started using his middle name Ray; he was only known as Stevie Vaughan at the time. This led to Harlem Heat challenging Bigelow and Kanyon for the World Tag Team Championship at Road Wild. They formed the legendary Harlem Heat tag-team and are 10-time WCW Tag-Team Champions. "Stevie Ray is going into the Hall of Fame? The original Harlem Heat duo of Booker T and Stevie Ray had one final reunion in WCW on the July 19 episode of Thunder where they defeated Jeff Jarrett and Rick Steiner in a tag team match. The pair would end up winning the WCW World Tag Team Championships ten times throughout their time in the company. Dont get jacked up sucka!, WWE unveils new World Heavyweight Championship to be decided at Night of Champions 2023, Ex-WWE star Nia Jax looks unrecognisable after losing over 3 stone in epic transformation, Meghan Markle gets her own WWE entrance video after misunderstanding over new deal. But legendary wrestler turned promoter Skandor Akbar noticed the brothers and brought them into his short-lived Global Wrestling Federation as a tag team called The Ebony Experience. They eventually gained Parker as a manager as he abandoned Slater and Buck to be with Sherri. As a singles competitor, Stevie Ray wouldnt draw a dime and was not worth the acquisition. Lash Huffman started wrestling in 1989 as Super Collider on the independent circuit in Texas. All rights reserved. Ray and Big T referred their new team as Harlem Heat 2000. 5 Reasons Why Harlem Heat Was WCWs Best Tag Team (& 5 Why It Was The Steiner Brothers), legendary wrestler turned promoter Skandor Akbar, 8 Backstage Stories Fans Should Know About Sensational Sherri Martel, The nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood Storyline, Explained. This article is about the wrestler. Harlem Heat, comprised of real-life brothers Booker and Lash Huffman (known in the ring as Booker T and Stevie Ray), was announced Monday as the fourth inductee in the Hall's 2019 class. Get Stevie. [35] Harlem Heat unsuccessfully challenged Luger and Sting for the titles at SuperBrawl VI. They now have two daughters, Celia and Rebecca. They feuded with Stars and Stripes (The Patriot and Buff Bagwell) and won the WCW Tag Team Titles for the first time. [38] On the June 24 episode of Nitro, Harlem Heat defeated Luger and Sting and Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) in a triangle match to win their fifth World Tag Team Championship. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. By 1997, things were changing for Harlem Heat. Be the first one to comment on this story. [51], Soon after, Harlem Heat took on The Public Enemy and The Faces of Fear (Meng and The Barbarian) in a three-way dance at SuperBrawl VII, which Public Enemy won.
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