Booker T is considered to be one of the most decorated wrestlers in WCW history, having held 21 titles including a record six WCW World Television Championships and a record eleven WCW World Tag Team Championships. On the January 30 episode of Nitro, Harlem Heat acquired J. Biggs as their manager, who prevented Booker from using the "Rap Sheet" entrance music and "T" in his name. 0. All rights reserved. Check it out. The Final Heat: Booker T & Stevie Ray's last match as - YouTube Harlem Heat were in a perpetual bad mood and the expressions really convey that think twice before you cross us. Bro as the leader of Misfits in Action.[66]. Raw results, April 24, 2023: Bad Bunny challenged Damian Priest to a Street Fight at WWE Backlash in Puerto Rico! However, Booker T rescued Ray from Creative Control. Now, the brothers will be . This marked their final time teaming in WCW before the promotion disbanded. On February 21, 2015, Booker T and Stevie Ray reunited as Harlem Heat for one last match at Booker T's promotion, Reality of Wrestling's The Final Heat event, where they defeated The New Heavenly Bodies for the ROW Tag Team Championship. As a result, he spent some time following the loss wrestling as simply Booker. He then retired from in-ring competition to become a color commentator for WCW Thunder. Coincidentally, Harlem Heat will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame later this year, the night before WrestleMania 35. [18] Shortly after, Harlem Heat engaged in a feud with Marcus Alexander Bagwell and 2 Cold Scorpio which led to the two teams exchanging wins with one another. Harlem Heat was a professional wrestling tag team composed of two brothers, Booker and Lash Huffman (better known as Booker T and Stevie Ray). 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. 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. Primo was brought in to form a tag team with Carlito. The following month, at Fall Brawl, Harlem Heat defeated the Windhams in a rematch to win their ninth World Tag Team Championship[65] and retained the titles against Windhams on the September 27 episode of Nitro. Booker and Stevie Ray made a comeback and defeated the cheating birds in September. [33] On the October 28 episode of Saturday Night, Harlem Heat defeated American Males to win their fourth World Tag Team Championship. 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. The former tag-team champion was released from WWE in 2006. Both teams traded wins in six-man tag team matches. Harlem Heat suffered their first televised loss in WCW against Sting and Dustin Rhodes on the September 25 episode of Saturday Night. Harlem Heat became tweeners and entered a feud with Col. Parker's Stud Stable of "Dirty" Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck. Be the first one to comment on this story. Harlem Heat had a legendary career as a tag team in WCW. Booker T and Stevie Ray are taking on Rick and Scott Steiner. Booker T could return to the ring in 2020 and reunite Harlem Heat alongside his brother Stevie Ray. They formed the legendary Harlem Heat tag-team and are 10-time WCW Tag-Team Champions. Stevie would form the new Harlem Heat with Big T and begin feuding with Booker and Midnight. He eventually challenged Midnight in a match that would decide whether or not she would stay with Harlem Heat. When the HOF is over, fans will get to hear what I really think of Dave. 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. [42] At Fall Brawl, Harlem Heat successfully defended the titles against Nasty Boys. Fans from the Ruthless Aggression Era all remember Carlito and his legendary vignettes fondly. Ryan Clark. They lost the match when Shockmaster forced Booker (Kole) to submit. Harlem Heat joins the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2019 Rob Parker's team in the War Games at Fall Brawl on September 19, 1993, with Vader and Sid Vicious against Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes and The Shockmaster. [45] This match was taped on October 1. At SuperBrawl 2000, Booker lost the rights to the Harlem Heat name, the "Rap Sheet" and the "T" surname after being pinned by Big T after a distraction by Cassius (formerly known as 4x4 from The No Limit Soldiers). Stevie Ray (@RealStevieRay) March 12, 2019. The pair would end up winning the WCW World Tag Team Championships ten times throughout their time in the company. WWE Hall of Famer Booker T is now a color commentator on NXT. Meet us in Houston. It was at the appropriately named event, The Final Heat where Booker and Stevie defeated the Heavenly Bodies to win the ROW Tag Team Championship, a title they held for three weeks before vacating it. Booker T & Stevie Ray held the WCW World Tag Team Championship a record 10 times -- the most reigns as a tandem in WCW history [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. In Dave Meltzer's opinion, I'm not worthy of the #WWEHallOfFame. [25] Harlem Heat finally lost the titles to Nasty Boys at Slamboree.[26]. They had brief feuds with Lex Luger and Sting, trading the titles back and forth in early 1996 and The Road Warriors before starting a long feud with Rick and Scott Steiner in 1996. WWE Hall of Famer and brother of Booker T, Stevie Ray, has criticized his brother's iconic grocery store segment with Stone Cold Steve Austin. 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. Harlem Heat defeated the team of Slater and Buck at The Great American Bash. Harlem Heat lost the titles to Lex Luger and Sting on January 22, 1996 episode of Nitro. Stevie Ray recalls disliking Steve Austin dominating Booker T in the Booker T describes how his brotherly bond with Stevie Ray helped make Harlem Heat a combination deserving of WWE Hall of Fame induction. Watch a hard-hitting match between Harlem Heat and The Steiners. Could he not have lobbied to get his brother hired, or did he and they just didn't respond favorably? Harlem Heat defeated the two teams to win their record-setting tenth and final World Tag Team Championship. 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. Harlem Heat to take their place in the WWE Hall of Fame
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