BOOKER T

Booker  T  in  2008.

Birth  name Booker  Tio  Huffman  Jr.

Born March  1,  1965  (age  50)

Houston,  Texas

Spouse(s) Levestia  Huffman  (m.  1996;  div.  2001)

Sharmell  Sullivan  (m.  2005)

Children Brandon  Huffman

Professional  wrestling  career

Ring  name(s) Black  Snow

Booker  T

Booker

King  Booker

G.I.  Bro

Kole

Billed  height 6  ft  3  in  (1.91  m)

Billed  weight 256  lb  (116  kg)

Billed  from 110th  Street  in  Harlem,  New  York

Houston,  Texas

Trained  by Ivan  Putski

Debut March  1,  1989

Booker  Tio  Huffman  Jr.  (born  March  1,  1965),  is  an  American  semi-retired  professional  wrestler  and  color  commentator  who  is  currently  signed  with  WWE.  He  is  also  founder/owner  of  the  independent  promotion  Reality  of  Wrestling  (ROW)  in  his  hometown  of  Houston,  Texas.  He  is  better  known  by  his  ring  names  Booker  T  and  King  Booker.

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  championships  between  those  organizations.  He  is  the  most  decorated  wrestler  in  WCW  history,  having  held  21  titles  including  a  record  six  WCW  World  Television  Championships,  and  a  record  ten  WCW  World  Tag  Team  Championships  as  one  half  of  Harlem  Heat  with  his  brother,  Lash  "Stevie  Ray"  Huffman  (he  had  an  eleventh  reign  in  the  WWF  with  Test).

Booker  headlined  many  pay-per-view  events  in  WCW,  the  WWF/E  and  TNA  between  1993  and  2008  and  is  a  six  time  world  champion,  having  won  the  WCW  World  Heavyweight  Championship  five  times  (four  times  in  WCW,  with  the  fourth  reign  commencing  on  the  2001  final  WCW  broadcast  under  the  ownership  of  the  WWF  and  continuing  in  that  company;  and  once  within  the  WWF  itself)  and  a  World  Heavyweight  Championship  in  WWE.  He  is  the  first  non-mixed  race  African  American  to  become  a  world  champion  in  WWE,  and  was  voted  the  greatest  WCW/World  Heavyweight  Champion  of  all  time  in  a  2013  WWE  viewer  poll.  Booker  has  also  gained  notable  success  as  a  tag  team  wrestler,  being  a  15-time  World  Tag  Team  Champion  between  WCW  (11  times),  WWF/E  (three  times),  and  TNA  (once).  Additionally,  he  was  the  winner  of  the  WWE  King  of  the  Ring  tournament  in  2006,  the  sixteenth  WWE  Triple  Crown  Champion  and  the  tenth  WWE  Grand  Slam  Champion.  As  the  ninth  (and  final)  WCW  Triple  Crown  Champion,  Booker  is  one  of  five  men  in  history  to  achieve  both  the  WWE  and  WCW  Triple  Crown  Championships.

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

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