Booker T Bio

Booker T Bio

Name                  :                 Booker Huffman Jr

Ring Name         :                 Booker T

Birth Date          :                 1 March 1965

Birth Place         :                Louisiana, USA

Mini Bio

Booker Huffman was conceived on March 1, 1965 in Houston, Texas, USA as Booker Tio Huffman Jr. He is a performer and maker, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), WWE Raw (1993) and WrestleMania XIX (2003). He has been hitched to Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman since February 5, 2005. They have two youngsters. He was beforehand hitched to Levestia Huffman.

Full Bio

Booker Huffman Jr. (conceived March 1, 1965), better known by his ring name Booker T, is an American resigned proficient wrestler and promoter, marked with WWE as a feature of the pre-show group on both Raw and SmackDown. He is likewise the proprietor and author of the free advancement Reality of Wrestling (ROW) in the place where he grew up of Houston, Texas.

Booker is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), holding 35 titles between those associations. He is the most enlivened wrestler in WCW history, having held 21 titles including a record six WCW World Television Championships (alongside being the primary African American titleholder), and a record eleven WCW World Tag Team Championships: ten as one portion of Harlem Heat with his sibling, Lash "Stevie Ray" Huffman in WCW, and one in the WWF with Test. Booker was the last WCW World Heavyweight Champion and WCW United States Heavyweight Champion under the WCW standard; industry veteran John Layfield depicted him as "the best obtaining that WWE got when they purchased WCW".

Booker is a six-time title holder, having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship five times (four times in WCW, and once in the WWF) and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the principal non-blended race African American to end up a best on the planet in WWE, and was voted the best World Heavyweight Champion ever in a 2013 WWE viewer poll. Booker has additionally increased outstanding accomplishment as a label group wrestler, being a 15-time world label group champion between WCW (11 times), WWF/E (three times), and TNA (once). Moreover, he was the victor of the King of the Ring competition in 2006, the sixteenth Triple Crown Champion and the ninth Grand Slam Champion in WWE history. As the ninth (and last) Triple Crown Champion in WCW history, Booker is one of four men in history to accomplish both the WWE and WCW Triple Crowns.

Booker was drafted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 6, 2013, by his sibling, Lash Huffman (Stevie Ray).

Early life

Booker T Huffman was conceived the most youthful of eight kids, in Plain Dealing, Louisiana. By the time Booker was fourteen, both of his folks had kicked the bucket, and his more seasoned sibling Lash "Stevie Ray" Huffman ventured into raise him and his siblings. In secondary school, Booker Huffman was a drum major. He likewise played touch football and basketball.

Booker is an indicted criminal who burned through nineteen months in jail in the wake of conceding to furnished thefts at Wendy's eateries in Houston. Booker and his accomplices wore Wendy's garbs amid the robberies since they had been working there for a long time. As a result of the shooters' outfits and nature with the fast food chain's operations, police suspected the burglaries were inside employments—and it didn't take much sooner than Huffman and three other men were found. Booker confessed in December 1987 to two bothered burglary numbers and was sentenced to five years in jail. He was discharged in the wake of serving around 33% of that term, and was set on parole until April 1992.

Huffman was lifted to headliner status in 2000. After WCW booker Vince Russo became disappointed with Hulk Hogan's governmental issues, he terminated Hogan amid the live communicate of Bash at the Beach and reported an off the cuff match between Jeff Jarrett and Huffman for the World Title. Huffman won the match, in the process turning into the second since forever African American champion in WCW after Ron Simmons, and the third African American to win a World Heavyweight title. He was then crushed by Kevin Nash on August 28 on Nitro. He recaptured the title a couple of weeks after the fact in a steel confine match with Nash at Fall Brawl, yet again lost the title, this opportunity to Vince Russo himself in a pen match (Russo was skewered out of the enclosure by Goldberg and won the title), Russo emptied the title and Booker won it for the third time in a San Francisco 49er Box Match against Jeff Jarrett on the October 2 scene of Nitro.

Booker's next fight was with Scott Steiner, to whom he in the end lost the title in a Straitjacket steel confine match. Steiner won by TKO when he put an oblivious Booker into the Steiner Recliner at Mayhem. Steiner was WCW's longest supreme champion in years, while Booker was quickly out with an injury.  Booker came back to the program and crushed Rick Steiner for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship at Greed. This made Booker the eighth WCW Triple Crown winner. On the last scene of Nitro, he vanquished Scott Steiner to win the World title for the fourth time.

Huffman won an aggregate of twenty-one (twelve more title wins in the WWF making thirty-three, and two more in TNA to make thirty-five) titles in WCW, making him the most embellished competitor ever. Booker was additionally the ruling WCW United States Heavyweight Champion and WCW World Heavyweight Champion when he acknowledged an agreement with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

After WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation in March 2001, Booker T made his introduction at the King of the Ring pay-per-view in 2001 assaulting WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin amid his match, speedily harming him in his first move in the WWF. He later turned heel and turned into a main individual from The Alliance amid the Invasion storyline. During July 2001, in his presentation match in the organization, Booker safeguarded his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Buff Bagwell. At InVasion, The Alliance vanquished Team WWF when Steve Austin joined the Alliance. On July 26, Booker surrendered his WCW United States Championship and gave it over to Chris Kanyon. He later lost the WCW World Championship to Kurt Angle, yet he went ahead to win the title back on the July 30 scene of Raw. Booker kept the title until SummerSlam, when he lost it to The Rock in the wake of quarreling with him over the likeness in their contrivances and their indistinguishable completing moves, the Book End/Rock Bottom. Booker T won the WCW World Tag Team Championship for an eleventh time, this time with Test, and he additionally had a WWF Tag Team Championship rule with Test. At the Survivor Series, Booker T was wiped out third by The Rock after a move up and in the long run The Alliance was crushed, making them disband.

In its repercussions, Booker remained a heel, and he united with Vince McMahon and The Boss Man in December to fight with Steve Austin. After Booker T cost Austin a match against Chris Jericho for the Undisputed WWF Championship at Vengeance, Austin picked up retribution by assaulting Booker T in a supermarket by covering him in sustenance.

Booker T's first WrestleMania appearance was at WrestleMania X8 against Edge. They quarreled over who might show up in an anecdotal Japanese cleanser commercial. When the brand augmentation was presented in March, Booker T was drafted to the Raw brand. Booker held the Hardcore Championship twice in May 2002, overcoming Stevie Richards just to lose it to Crash Holly seconds after the fact. He then re-vanquished Crash and dropped the Belt to Stevie Richards two or after three minutes.

Goldust started attempting to begin a label group with Booker, however Goldust continued costing Booker matches. With the nWo now working in WWE, Booker T was in the long run welcomed into the faction. His time there was brief, when he was kicked out of the gathering by Shawn Michaels after a superkick from Michaels. Booker then turned face and found an organization with Goldust and the pair joined to fight the nWo. Booker and Goldust had a title shot against The Un-Americans (Christian and Lance Storm) at SummerSlam, however The Un-Americans held after impedance from Test. At No Mercy, Booker and Goldust struggled Chris Jericho and Christian for the label titles, yet they lost the match with Jericho utilizing the title belt on Goldust.

He spent whatever is left of 2002 collaborating with Goldust. They won the World Tag Team Championship at Armageddon in a Tag Team Elimination match overcoming the groups of Christian and Chris Jericho, Lance Storm and William Regal, and the Dudley Boyz. They held the belts for around three weeks, when they lost them to Regal and Storm. Booker and Goldust lost the rematch and chose to go their different ways. The trick for Booker and Goldust was Goldust being an unusual, yet tried and true partner who Booker in the end warmed up to after beginning doubt. By 2003, notwithstanding, Booker T's prevalence had taken off and he agreeably isolated from Goldust, at Goldust's solicitation, so as to seek after the World Heavyweight Championship. In February 2003, he killed The Rock to win a fight imperial for the main contendership, allowing him a title shot at WrestleMania XIX.

Booker focused on Evolution after Batista and Randy Orton assaulted Booker's previous accomplice, Goldust.  Several weeks prior WrestleMania, the officeholder champion and Evolution's pioneer, Triple H, cut a disputable promo on Booker T. Triple H made light of Booker T's WCW achievement, bringing up that the WCW Championship had been held by non-wrestlers like Vince Russo and on-screen character David Arquette calling WCW and its title "a joke". He said that "individuals like" Booker T could never win big showdowns in WWE. This promo is additionally regularly deciphered as supremacist as Triple H likewise made reference to Booker T's "nappy" hair and remarks inferring that Booker T was just in WWE to move and stimulate for "individuals like" Triple H. Amid the WrestleMania XIX question and answer session Michael Cole asked Triple H in the matter of whether he had purposely cut a bigot promo, Triple H asserted this was not the case and that he was simply alluding to Booker's criminal past. A week later, Booker assaulted Triple H in the washroom and laid him out after Triple H had tossed a dollar bank note at him, requesting Booker to get him a towel. However, Booker T lost to Triple H at WrestleMania XIX. For a few weeks, he collaborated with Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash in a fight against Triple H, Ric Flair, and Chris Jericho. At Backlash, Booker's group lost when Triple H stuck Nash after a heavy hammer shot.

A while later, Booker set his sights on the recently reactivated Intercontinental Championship. After losing a fight illustrious for the title at Judgment Day, Booker fought with the champion Christian. After a couple matches, Booker vanquished him to end up the new champion. About a month later, as a result of a bothering back damage, Booker lost the Intercontinental title back to Christian at a non-broadcast house show. Booker, in the interim, was out of activity until October.

At the point when Booker returned in 2003, he joined Team Austin at the Survivor Series for a match to figure out if Eric Bischoff or Steve Austin (both co-general supervisors) would be the sole General Manager of Raw. Team Bischoff won the match. Booker then quarreled with Mark Henry, who disposed of him in the Survivor Series match. Booker crushed Henry at Armageddon.

On the February 16, 2004 scene of Raw, Booker T and Rob Van Dam vanquished Ric Flair and Batista for the World Tag Team Championship. Booker and Van Dam held the titles for a month, notwithstanding safeguarding the belts at WrestleMania XX in a 4 Corners label group match. Eight days after the fact on the March 22 scene of Raw, they lost label group titles to Flair and Batista. He and Rob Van Dam, never got their rematch because of Rob Van Dam being drafted to Smackdown! that extremely same night.

On March 23, 2004 he was "exchanged" (alongside the Dudley Boyz) to the SmackDown! brand in return for Triple H, however as a component of another storyline, he seemed despondent with the move calling SmackDown! "the small time" and even affronted Eddie Guerrero, the brand's WWE Champion, turning heel in the process. Later on, Booker T gloated about how he was the greatest star on SmackDown! what's more, fought with The Undertaker. Booker attempted to use voodoo enchantment to attempt to beat his "powerful" foe; anyway, it did nothing to keep him from losing to the Undertaker at Judgment Day.

In mid-2004, Booker T set his sights on the United States Championship alongside its champion, John Cena. After Cena got on the awful side of General Manager Kurt Angle, he did his best to make tracks in an opposite direction from Cena. Cena effectively safeguarded the title at The Great American Bash in a four-manner disposal match against Booker, René Duprée, and Rob Van Dam.  After Cena was stripped of his title by Angle for "laying a hand" on the GM, Booker exploited the circumstance and won an eight-man end match to win the empty United States Championship, in this way turning into the one-hundredth United States Champion ever, in a match that likewise highlighted Cena, Dupree, Billy Gunn, Charlie Haas, Luther Reigns, Kenzo Suzuki and Van Dam. Booker won by last taking out both Cena and Van Dam over the span of under 10 seconds After Angle was terminated by Mr. McMahon for decorating his wounds, Theodore Long started his initial residency as Smackdown GM, and booked a best-of-five arrangement of matches for the United States Championship amongst Booker and Cena. The primary match occurred at SummerSlam in Toronto and saw Cena pick up the pinfall triumph to go up 1–0 in the arrangement. Booker would bob back and win the following two matches, on the version of August 24 of Smackdown in Fresno, CA and a live occasion the following night in Sydney, Australia, to take a 2–1 lead. The following match in the arrangement wouldn't come until the September 16 Smackdown from Spokane, WA, where Cena won and tied the arrangement at two each. The arrangement finished at No Mercy, where Cena won the arrangement 3–2, and along these lines, the US Title.

On October 21, SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long set Booker in a six-man label group match with Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio against John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL), René Duprée, and Kenzo Suzuki. JBL anticipated that Booker would double-cross his accomplices, however rather Booker stuck him, consequently turning face again. Booker T confronted JBL for the WWE Championship at the Survivor Series on November 14, yet lost after he was hit in the head with the title belt. The following night, Booker T requested a rematch, refering to Orlando Jordan's obstruction. He was then joined by Eddie Guerrero and The Undertaker who additionally needed a shot at JBL's title, inciting Theodore Long to make a deadly four-route match for the WWE Championship at Armageddon. once more, Booker neglected to win the title, as JBL held it. He then quickly collaborated with Eddie Guerrero, at one point testing Mysterio and Van Dam for the WWE Tag Team Championship, and quarreled with Heidenreich.

Booker won a 30-man Battle Royal dull match at WrestleMania 21 last disposing of Raw's Viscera and "The Masterpiece" Chris Masters. Subsequently, Booker was a piece of the competition to name another main contender and made it to the Final Four. After Kurt Angle wiped out Booker, he gave back where its due, costing Angle the match against JBL. The storyline then swung to a sexual nature, as Angle started stalking Booker's new spouse, Sharmell. Booker crushed Angle at Judgment Day. On the May 26 scene of SmackDown!, Booker took an interest in a "Champs Choice" Battle Royal, with the victor picking his adversary for the following week. Kurt Angle won and needed to wrestle Sharmell.  Booker dissented, and the match was made into a Handicap match. Edge won by sticking Sharmell in a sexual position. The following week, Booker picked up requital on Angle, crushing him with a Scissors Kick.

Booker T started cooperating with Chris Benoit, looking at the United States Championship again. Meanwhile, after a progression of matches with MNM, Sharmell acquainted some wretched qualities obscure with Booker. Benoit was permitted to pick his next challenger to see who might confront him at No Mercy, so Booker, Christian, and Orlando Jordan attempted to inspire Benoit by winning matches. He couldn't pick, so he made it a deadly four-route for No Mercy, where Benoit effectively safeguarded his title. On the October 21 scene of SmackDown!, Booker T vanquished Benoit for the United States Championship, because of a concealed help from Sharmell. Theodore Long later indicated footage of Sharmell meddling in Booker's matches. Later, Booker and Sharmell went to apologize to Benoit and give him a rematch, yet rather, he assaulted Benoit, and busted him open with the U.S. title formally turning heel by and by surprisingly since 2004. Booker then gloated that he had been completely mindful of what Sharmell had been doing and had been playing moronic to trick everyone.

On November 25, Booker T battled against Benoit for the United States Championship. The match finished when Benoit superplexed Booker and two officials made the most of a three on either contender, guaranteeing that their wrestler had won. Booker was stripped of the belt by Theodore Long, due to the disarray of who won since they stuck each other in the meantime. Since a long time ago chose to set Benoit and Booker against each other in a best of seven arrangement, pretty much as the two had in their WCW days. Booker took a mid 3–0 lead. In an absolute necessity win match amid Armageddon, Benoit could crush Booker T to bring the arrangement to 3–1. At a house show on December 2, in any case, Booker was injured, and he didn't wrestle again until after the "Best of Seven" arrangement with Benoit was finished. Booker was planned to confront Benoit in Match 5 of the Best of Seven Series at the SmackDown! recordings the next night. Toward the start of the appear, General Manager Theodore Long said that Booker would need to relinquish. Both Booker and Benoit challenged, with Benoit not needing a modest triumph. Booker figured out how to convince Long to permit him to pick a stand-in for the matches. At the time, Orlando Jordan had been quarreling most with Benoit and needed another shot at him. Be that as it may, Booker rather picked Randy Orton as his replacement. Benoit could beat Orton in two matches. Orton, be that as it may, could overcome Benoit in the last match to win the arrangement and the title for Booker T, who held the title until No Way Out where Benoit won it back.

Subsequent to losing the title, Booker fought with The Boogeyman, who ceaselessly terrified he and Sharmell. The quarrel finished in a debilitation match at WrestleMania 22 on April 2, which Booker and Sharmell lost. The fight reached an end on the April 7 scene of SmackDown!, after Booker and Sharmell got a controlling request against The Boogeyman.

Booker next entered the King of the Ring competition on SmackDown!, progressing through to the finals because of a bye as his semi-last rival, Kurt Angle, was not able wrestle. The finals were held at Judgment Day where Booker vanquished Bobby Lashley. Upon winning the King of the Ring competition, Booker started wrestling as "Lord Booker"  and started acting like he was a genuine ruler managing "The SmackDown! Kingdom". Booker framed an illustrious court which incorporated his significant other, Queen Sharmell, Sir William Regal, and Sir Finlay, and started including the quirks and clothing of a cliché English-style ruler as a major aspect of the character, the distance down to wearing a crown and cape and talking in a fake English pronunciation; it was maybe, then, fitting that Booker's court was made out of a local Englishman (Regal) and a local Northern Irishman (Finlay); both England and Northern Ireland are a piece of the United Kingdom. However, at whatever point King Booker would get furious he would dispatch into a tirade in the style of Booker T, which loaned some comedic angle to the character also. Lord Booker even went similarly as having Lashley kiss his "imperial" feet.

Subsequent to picking up his title of King, Booker kept on fighting with Lashley. After Lashley crushed JBL for the United States Championship toward the end of May, Booker started pursuing the title and even depended on making Lashley kiss his "imperial feet" on the June 2 SmackDown. The fight finished after a steel confine match on the June 30 SmackDown where Lashley got away to hold the United States title.

The following week, King Booker entered a fight illustrious on SmackDown with the victor to challenge Rey Mysterio for his World Heavyweight Championship at The Great American Bash. Booker won the match and afterward vanquished Mysterio after Chavo Guerrero turned on the champion by hitting him with a steel chair. This was Booker's first big showdown since joining WWE and the win made him broadcast himself as the "Ruler of the World". This win would likewise make Booker the sixteenth Triple Crown Champion and ninth Grand Slam Champion ever.

After Booker won, he started a competition with the returning previous champion Batista, who promised to recapture the title he was compelled to relinquish because of harm. Ruler Booker lost to Batista by exclusion at SummerSlam after Queen Sharmell meddled on his behalf. However, he crushed Batista at No Mercy in a match that likewise included Finlay and Bobby Lashley. After the match, King Booker attacked Sir Regal, bringing about the complete separation of the King's Court and allowing Booker to sit unbothered.

Despite the separation of his Court, King Booker vanquished Batista on the October 20 scene on SmackDown, because of obstruction from WWE Champion John Cena from Raw and ECW World Champion Big Show, the two of whom King Booker was to confront at Cyber Sunday in a "champion of champions" match. The fans voted in favor of the ruler's World Heavyweight Championship to be at stake, and Booker held subsequent to overcoming Cena with assistance from Kevin Federline.

After Cyber Sunday, the quarrel between King Booker and Batista proceeded with Batista not able to wrest the title from Booker. Inevitably this prompted a match at Survivor Series on November 26, where King Booker pronounced that if Batista neglected to annihilation him this time, it would be the last World Heavyweight Championship match he would get. On the night of the appear, an extra stipulation was included by SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long where if King Booker got tallied out or precluded, Batista would get to be champion. Late in the match, Queen Sharmell gave King Booker his title belt while ref Nick Patrick was not looking. While she had Patrick occupied, the King endeavored to hit Batista with the belt. Batista moved off the beaten path, thumped the belt out of Booker's hands, lifted it move down, and utilized it himself to hit the champion in the head. An oblivious King Booker was stuck in a matter of seconds thereafter and lost his World Heavyweight Championship. After losing the World title, Booker quarreled nearby previous regal court part Finlay against Batista and John Cena, which hinted at Armageddon where they lost.

While contending in the Royal Rumble match, Booker was dispensed with by Kane. A disappointed Booker came back to the ring wrongfully and dispensed with Kane. This began a short fight between the two bringing about a match at No Way Out, which Kane won. King Booker won a Money in the Bank qualifying match, vanquishing Kane (with help from The Great Khali) and earned himself a spot in the match at WrestleMania 23. At WrestleMania, Matt Hardy set up Sharmell for a Twist of Fate amid the Money in the Bank match with the folder case in King Booker's grip – along these lines compelling him to pick between an ensured title shot and his wife. He shielded his Queen and lost the match. On the April 6 scene of SmackDown!, Booker endeavored to render retribution. Notwithstanding, he lost the match against Matt Hardy, and Sharmell pronounced her failure in him and slapped him. While trying to awe his Queen, King Booker assaulted The Undertaker however was Tombstoned on a declare table. Booker was expelled from TV to manage a knee injury.

On the June 11 scene of Raw, King Booker (alongside Queen Sharmell) was drafted from SmackDown! to Raw as a feature of the WWE Draft. On July 16, King Booker went to the ring utilizing Triple H's signature music "The King of Kings", notwithstanding utilizing his video. Lord Booker pronounced that neither Triple H nor Jerry Lawler could be known as "The King". Booker started a quarrel with Lawler, overcoming him on the August 6 scene of Raw where the washout needed to crown the champ the following week. When the time came, Lawler won't, proclaiming that Triple H was still a ruler and declaring that King Booker would fight Triple H at SummerSlam. Booker assaulted Lawler, tossing him into the ring post and hitting him with a TV monitor. At SummerSlam, Booker lost to the returning Triple H. On the August 27 scene of Raw, Booker wrestled his last match in WWE against WWE Champion John Cena in a non-title match, which he lost by preclusion when Randy Orton interfered.

In August, he was connected to Signature Pharmacy, an organization thought to disperse execution improving drugs. He was suspended by WWE for abusing its Wellness Policy. He denied utilizing any medications and being a client of Signature Pharmacy. In October 2007, Booker T asked for his and Sharmell's discharge from their WWE contracts, which WWE allowed.

At the Genesis pay-per-view on November 11, 2007, Huffman appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Sting's riddle accomplice in a label group match against Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, returning to his Booker T character. His better half Sharmell additionally appeared, meddling in the match for Booker and Sting's sake when Karen Angle meddled in the interest of Kurt Angle and Nash.

On the November 29 scene of Impact!, Booker said he came to TNA to test his abilities against the youthful ability, take TNA to a more elevated amount, and win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Robert Roode went to the ring and tested Booker to a match, guaranteeing he has been pushed around cleaned up wrestlers and has-beens. Booker won his Impact! debut match, yet a short time later, Christian Cage and Robert Roode beat down Booker until Kaz made the recovery. At Turning Point, Booker and Kaz vanquished Roode and Cage when Booker stuck Cage. Booker and Sharmell won a blended label group match against Robert Roode and Ms. Rivulets at Final Resolution. After the match, Roode punched Sharmell in the face, prompting a match at Against All Odds. While the punch was proposed to be a work, Roode had in truth reached Sharmell amid the punch, disengaging her jaw and making her be off TV for a couple of weeks, in this way making it into a shoot. The competition, in any case, proceeded as arranged where Booker and Roode wrestled to a twofold countout at Against All Odds, which saw them fight to the parking area. Roode vanquished Booker in strap match at Destination X in the wake of hitting Booker with a couple of cuffs. In a unique live scene of Impact!, Booker T and Robert Roode had another excursion, this time with the fans having the capacity to vote on the stipulation of the match. At Booker's solicitation amid a pre-match promo, the match turned into a First Blood Match, beating the Last Man Standing and I Quit stipulations. Booker T would go ahead to win the match-up. At Lockdown, Booker T and Sharmell crushed Robert Roode and Payton Banks after Sharmell stuck Banks with a move up.

Booker T turned heel without precedent for TNA at Sacrifice by assaulting Christian Cage and Rhino from behind with a steel seat. This came to fruition as an aftereffect of losing a label group match up against Christian Cage and Rhino, with them promoting themselves in the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament. Booker then contended in the King of the Mountain match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Slammiversary. He was seconds from winning the match, when Kevin Nash halted him and played out a Jackknife Powerbomb; Samoa Joe would later go ahead to win the match. On the following Impact!, Booker tested Joe to a title match at Victory Road, which Joe would later acknowledge. Additionally around this time he returned to a contrivance like his King Booker trick yet while broadcasting himself an assumed ruler of Africa. The match at Victory Road finished in a draw after Sharmell supplanted the official and tallied after the match was at that point over. At Hard Justice, Samoa Joe vanquished Booker after a guitar shot, in this way recovering physical ownership of the title belt, which Booker had kept after Victory Road. Later he presented the TNA Legends Championship and turned into the main authority champion and safeguarded it on a few events before los

Booker would then go ahead to shape the Mafia's occupant label group with Scott Steiner, and at Victory Road, Steiner and Booker vanquished Beer Money, Inc. to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship (denoting Booker's fifteenth World Tag Team title rule by and large). At that point at Hard Justice, Booker T and Steiner held the World Tag Team Championship against Team 3D. Preceding No Surrender, Booker and Steiner and British Invasion won a match to pick up the man advantage at No Surrender's Lethal Lockdown match against Team 3D and Beer Money, Inc. Indeed, even with the man advantage, Booker T and Scott Steiner alongside British Invasion lost to Team 3D and Beer Money at No Surrender when James Storm of Beer Money stuck Doug Williams of The British Invasion.  At Bound for Glory. Booker and Steiner lost the TNA World Tag Team Titles to the British Invasion fourly Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team match, which likewise included Team 3D and Beer Money; amid the match Booker was taken out on a stretcher. Afterwards it was accounted for that the PPV had been Booker's last appearance with the organization, and his and Sharmell's profiles were expelled from the authority TNA list. On May 21, 2010, Booker T made a one night come back to TNA at a live occasion in Lake Charles, Louisiana, supplanting A.J. Styles, who was not able go to the occasion because of travel issues, and wrestling Rob Van Dam for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in a losing exertion.

On January 30, 2011 Booker T came back to WWE to partake in the Royal Rumble. Booker entered the match at number 21 and was killed by Mason Ryan.  At the February 1 taping of SmackDown, Huffman appeared as the show's new shading observer, working alongside Josh Mathews and Michael Cole, supplanting Matt Striker.  He trained on the returning Tough Enough competition, and at Elimination Chamber he presented Trish Stratus as a kindred mentor. On the June 6 scene of Raw, Booker wrestled his first match on the brand in four years, picking up a triumph against Jack Swagger by check out. On the November 21 scene of Raw, Cody Rhodes tossed water in Booker T's face after Rhodes purportedly heard Booker T censure him, in this manner beginning a contention between the two. On the November 29 scene of SmackDown Booker was planned to face Rhodes in a match yet it didn't happen after Rhodes assaulted him from behind him amid a backstage interview. On the December 9 scene of SmackDown, Rhodes assaulted Booker again while going to the broadcaster's table abandoning him with paramedics. Soon thereafter, Booker T assaulted Rhodes amid his match with Daniel Bryan, prompting an Intercontinental Championship match at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, which Rhodes won. On the December 26 scene of Raw, Booker vanquished Rhodes in a non-title match. On the January 6, 2012, scene of SmackDown, Booker tested Rhodes a second time for the Intercontinental Championship, however by and by neglected to win the title.

Booker T alongside kindred observers Jerry Lawler and Michael Cole all took an interest in the 2012 Royal Rumble. On the March 26, 2012 scene of Raw, Booker T spared Teddy Long from an endeavored assault by Mark Henry, in this way turning into the 6th and last individual from Team Teddy at WrestleMania XXVIII, where Team Johnny developed victorious. On the July 9 scene of Raw, Jerry Lawler won by pinfall against Michael Cole in a WrestleMania XXVII rematch. Notwithstanding, Booker, who was subbing for Lawler on discourse, tossed Cole over into the ring after he attempted to get away. This made the mysterious Raw General Manager invert the choice and give Cole the win as an aftereffect of a preclusion.

On July 31, 2012, Booker T was delegated the new General Manager of SmackDown. Booker would rapidly include Eve Torres and Theodore Long to his staff, as his right hand and senior consultant individually.

Booker was enlisted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his sibling, Stevie Ray, the prior night WrestleMania 29. On the April 19 SmackDown, Booker got to be irate with Long to make matches without his assent. Enormous Show arrived and expressed gratitude toward Long to do a superior employment than Booker, further irritating him. On the April 22 Raw, annoyed with Long to make a World Heavyweight Championship match at Extreme Rules, made it a Triple Threat match. Booker required significant investment off for a torn distal triceps, and had surgery for it on June 12. On the July 19 SmackDown, he came back to proceed as SmackDown General Manager, yet soon lost the employment to Vickie Guerrero, on Vince McMahon's requests.

Since 2014, Booker T has normally done work on the WWE Network, including the Raw pre-appear furthermore being a part of the "master board" on Kickoff appears before every compensation per-view occasion.

On the 2015 debut of Raw, Booker T supplanted Jerry Lawler, who was experiencing diverticulitis, for commentating. Be that as it may, it was later declared that Booker would return on a full-time premise to have Lawler's spot on Raw, with Lawler moving to SmackDown. On the March 30 scene of Raw, Booker, alongside JBL and Michael Cole, were harmed by Brock Lesnar after Seth Rollins denied Lesnar his WWE World Heavyweight Championship rematch. Booker was traded by Byron Saxton for commentating as he turned into a mentor for the 6th period of WWE Tough Enough. After Tough Enough finished Saxton was continued as Raw host for all time and Booker changed to the SmackDown declare group, without further ado turning into the new heel broadcaster for the brand by lauding the heel wrestlers amid their matches. After SmackDown moved to the USA Network in January 2016, Booker left the SmackDown report group and joined the Raw pre-show group.

On July 30, 2016, Booker T declared that he had resigned from in-ring competition. However, he would quickly leave retirement on August 6 to supplant Tommy Dreamer in an intergender label group match for Dreamer's House of Hardcore advancement.

 

Individual life

Booker wedded his first spouse Levestia on May 23, 1996. Booker introduced her to the Nitro swarm the night after his WCW World Heavyweight Championship win at Bash at the Beach.  Levestia was likewise used to advance the quarrel amongst himself and Jeff Jarrett when Jarrett hit her in the head with a guitar on Nitro scene 254 July 31, 2000. In any case, they separated on May 8, 2001.

Booker has a child from a past relationship,[which?] Brandon, with whom he has a strained relationship because of his time spent on the road. Booker wedded his better half of five years, Sharmell Sullivan, in February 2005. The couple respected their twins, a kid and a young lady, on August 5, 2010. Booker and his sibling Lash opened a wrestling school in Houston in 2005. Booker T is likewise a major fanatic of Formula One, and was in participation at the 2012 U.S Grand Prix to bolster the 2008, 2014 and 2015 Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton.

Huffman had backstage issues in 2006 at a SummerSlam pay-per-view business shoot. It was accounted for on WWE.com that Huffman got into a genuine clench hand battle with Dave Bautista. The battle was accepted to come from Batista viewed himself as to be superior to whatever is left of the program because of his headliner status and moderately brisk move to accomplish it. As indicated by sources backstage, both men were left bloodied and wounded, however Booker was supposedly lauded by numerous wrestlers in the back for talking his psyche to Batista about his attitude.

In 2005, Huffman began his own wrestling advancement in Houston, Texas, called Pro Wrestling Alliance. In 2012, the advancement name changed to Reality of Wrestling. After his last 2013 occasion, Christmas Chaos, ROW was close to close, yet Houston agent Hilton Koch, who helped the occasion, turned into an accomplice with Booker.

On February 21, 2015, Booker T and Stevie Ray rejoined as Harlem Heat for one final match in Reality of Wrestling for the advancement's "The Final Heat" occasion. They crushed the Heavenly Bodies to win the ROW Tag Team Championship. On March 14, the titles were abandoned.

Titles and achievements 

Worldwide Wrestling Federation

GWF Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Stevie Ray

Las Vegas Pro Wrestling

LVPW UWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Prairie Wrestling Alliance

PWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Star Wrestling Illustrated

PWI Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (1998)

Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (2000)

Label Team of the Year (1995, 1996) with Stevie Ray

Positioned #5 of the main 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2001

Positioned #133 of the main 500 wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003

Positioned #62 of the main 100 label groups of the "PWI Years" with Stevie Ray in 2003

Texas All-Pro Wrestling

TAP Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Reality of Wrestling

Column Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Stevie Ray

Add up to Nonstop Action Wrestling

TNA Legends Championship (1 time)

TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Scott Steiner

Big showdown Wrestling

WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

WCW World Heavyweight Championship (4 times)

WCW World Tag Team Championship (10 times) – with Stevie Ray

WCW World Television Championship (6 times)

Ninth WCW Triple Crown Champion

World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

WCW Championship (1 time)

WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)

WWE United States Championship (3 times)

WWF Hardcore Championship (2 times)

WWF/World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Test (1), Goldust (1), and Rob Van Dam (1)

WCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Test

Ruler of the Ring (2006)

Sixteenth Triple Crown Champion

Ninth Grand Slam Champion