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Think you know all there is to know about Booker T? Read on for the specifics on the World Championship Wrestling performer
By STEVE ANDERSON
1. Booker T is 6â3â and 250 pounds.
2. Booker T. Huffman was born on May 1, 1965, the youngest of eight children, in Houstonâs tough South Park.
3. By the time Booker T was 14, both of his parents had died. His brother Stevie Ray stepped in to raise him and his siblings.Â
4. Booker T boasted many signature moves, including the mussel dropkick, axe kick, and the bookend.
5. âReady To Rumble,â starring David Arquette, was Booker Tâs feature film debut. MCI featured Booker T in a national commercial campaign.
6. Booker T has appeared on television programs on both Comedy Central and MTV, and as one of the best dressers in wrestling, Booker T has appeared on the cover of the now defunct POV magazine.Â
7. Instead of playing sports in highschool, Booker T was a drum major.Â
8. Before becoming a pro wrestler, Booker T was a single father working at American Mini-Storage in Houston.Â
9. Booker T trained at Ivan Putskiâs Texas-based wrestling school.
10. Booker T made his pro debut in 1989 as G.I. Bro under the WWA.
11. After the WWA folded, Booker T and Stevie Ray were recruited to join Texasâ Global Wrestling Federation as the Ebony Experience.Â
12. The Ebony Experience won its first GWF tag-team title on July 31, 1992.Â
13. The Ebony Experience's success in the GWF caught the eye of Sid Vicious, who persuaded the team to jump to WCW in 1993.
14. Booker T and Stevie Ray made their WCW debuts as the members of Harlem Heat.
15. Harlem Heat gained its first WCW world tag-team title on December 8, 1994, when the team defeated Marcus Alexander Bagwell and the Patriot.
16. Booker T and Stevie Ray won their record 10th world tag-team title on October 24, 1999. Booker Tâs first WCW wrestling appearance without Stevie Ray as his partner occurred when he teamed with Sting on March 10, 1996.
17. Booker T captured his first singles title when he pinned Disco Inferno for the WCW world television title on December 29, 1997. Booker T later broke another record when he defeated Dave Finlay for his fifth television title.Â
18. Booker T finally achieved a dream on July 9, 2000, when he defeated Jeff Jarrettt for the WCW world heavyweight title at Bash at the Beach.
19. The night after Booker T won the title, he reunited again with Steve Ray.20. Booker T is the second African American wrestler to hold the WCW world heavyweight title; the first was Ron Simmons (now known as Faarooq in the WWF) in 1992.
AS CHYNA, JOANIE LAURER HAS been blazing a trail for women in professional wrestling since early 1999. In the WWF ring, she was the first female to compete in the King of the Ring tournament (June 1999) and the first female to capture the WWF intercontinental title (October 17, 1999).
Outside the ring, the mainstream media has adopted Chyna as the leading lady of professional wrestling. First, Chyna completed the talk show circuit. She then had a recurring role on NBCâs â3rd Rock From the Sun.â To top it all off, she also appeared in the November issue of Playboy.
In a candid and revealing interview, Chyna discusses her hectic schedule, her personal growth in and out of the ring, and whatâs next for the âNinth Wonder of the World.â
WRESTLING DIGEST: It seems your mainstream media presence has increased substantially. How has that affected your schedule?
CHYNA: It has been crazy, no doubt. I was on âLive With Regis and Kathie Leeâ, âThe Late, Late Show With Craig Kilborn,â and in âUSA Today.â It has been a lot, but Iâm trying to do it all. Itâs nice to know youâre wanted to do some of these things. And, a lot of the extra work just comes up unexpectedly. I was supposed to be on only one episode of â3rd Rock From the Sun,â but I ended up doing three. Then, I started working on my fitness video. It is a lot of extra work, but Iâm happy to do it.Â
WD: Those are certainly varied appearances. Are you branching out?
C: Thatâs really my goal. I wanted to branch out as an entertainer and be recognized more than just a wrestler. I wanted people to know that I have other abilities as an entertainer as well. When I first started doing more media, it started with the talk shows. Slowly, though, the extra work started coming.
[Fans seem to have only one problem with watching the statuesque Chyna in the ringâŠ]
WD: For what specific reason do you think you started getting more opportunities?
C: People finally started looking beyond the Chyna character. When I first started, I had never studied acting, even though before wrestling I wanted to be an actress. When I started lifting a lot of weights, there were not a lot of roles for girls like me. It was like the way I looked was frowned upon. Slowly that began to change, and I think Chyna had a lot to do with that. That character gave credibility to girls who were muscular, because she was such a strong character. She looked like she could get in there and kick butt on guys because she could. And, she did. People finally began to take notice of those types of characters. Chyna created a role for girls who could be strong characters and still be sex symbols at the same time. In the role Iâm in now with the WWF and in the other things I do, you can see that kind of character come out.
WD: When people who arenât familiar with wrestling see you on television or in person, what are some of the criticisms you hear about yourself and about the business?
C: Iâve been called ugly, been called a man and told I would never be able to do this or that because of the way I look or because Iâm in wrestling. People talk about what we do on TV, which is kick guys in the nuts. I hear it all. Wrestling has always been the stepchild as far as entertainment goes. But you can't argue with what has happened. When I first started, the buildings were half full. Now, weâre full every night at every show. And ratings donât lie.
WD: Lately your character has gotten a lot of exposure. What are your thoughts on working with Eddy Guerrero in the âLatino Heatâ gimmick, which is substantially different from your previous storylines?
C: Working with Eddy is great. He is so respectful, and the way he performs is unbelievable. It has been a little different program, but I kind of wanted a different program. For the longest time, all I worked was either the butt-kicking woman program or the program where I didnât do a whole lot. Working with Eddy has allowed me to get both the in-ring time I wanted and allowed me to be a sex symbol as well.Â
WD: Generally, not much is known about you personally. You are a college graduate who has an interest in language. Where did that come from?
C: I got into learning languages in school, because I thought I wanted to be in the FBI or the DEA [Drug Enforcement Agency]. I prided myself one education, and I worked hard. I graduated from the University of Tampa with a degree in Spanish literature. I also studied French and German well enough to hold a conversation. After I got out of school, I quickly found out I couldnât be an international spy. Thatâs when I turned to the entertainment world and found that wrestling was the best place for me.Â
WD: A lot has been made of your relationship with Triple H. Where does that relationship currently stand?
C: I am single. But I will accept roses, jewelry or any other gifts that a guy wants to give me.
[...Just an hour later theyâre hungry for more action from the raven-haired star.]
WD: What else would you like to do?
C: It may sound old and overused, but I am simply looking to grow and expand as an entertainer. It has taken a while, but I think people are finally realizing I have other abilities as an entertainer. Itâs a good time for me right now, but I have to take advantage of it while itâs good. It makes for a lot of work and time away from home, but when itâs out there waiting for you and the opportunities are there, youâve got to take it.Â
Is Roddy Piper as crazy as he appears to be? Or is it just a well-conceived plan on his part to remain in the spotlight? A professional psychologist analyses Roddy Piper and reveals what makes the most erratic man in professional wrestling tick
[Wrestling as a fan favorite in California in the early 1970s, Piper and Freddie Blassie did not see eye to eye. Today, Piper does not even remember the feud.]
THE NAME âROWDYâ Roddy Piper strikes fear into the hearts of wrestlers and wrestling fans everywhere. Itâs not his look â Piper has nowhere the evil countenance of, say, a Kamala or a Kevin Sullivan. His physique is above average, although nothing to make Tony Atlas or Nikita Koloff quiver in his boots. His knowledge of wrestling is adequate, but nothing to compare with the expertise of Bob Backlund or Rick Martel. All things considered, as a wrestler Roddy Piper is quite ordinary, slicing down the middle on almost any wrestling graph.
So what accounts for his success? What inspires him to attain such lofty goals? What separates Roddy Piper from the rest of the pack? With a minimum of skills Piper has climbed to the top of his profession and is routinely mentioned in the same breath as Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Rick Martel, Dusty Rhodes, and Kerry Von Erich.
To anyone who has even casually followed Piper's career, it is obvious that the man is crazyâa quality to which he seems to owe most of his success. But how crazy is he? And what kind of crazy? Rather than take random guesses at what may or may not be wrong with Piper, Inside Wrestling has invited a psychologist, Dr. Sidney M. Basil, into our offices to discuss what is technically wrong with Roddy Piper.
[Inconsistencies have marked Piperâs entire career. The Rowdy Scot attacks referee George Scott in 1981 (above left) and accepts the pledge of a young fan into âPiperâs Palaceâ In 1983 (above right). The ugliest feud of Piper's career was against Greg Valentine (below). Today, Valentine would be an honored guest on âPiperâs Pit.â]
Dr Basil,who followed wrestling as a fan as well as a professional, has studied extensively tapes of Piper conducting interviews and in the ring and has reached some interesting conclusions, which we print here in excerpted form.
ON PIPER THE FAN FAVORITE:
âEarly in his career, Mr. Piper was cheered by the fans. Because Mr. Piper is basically a paranoid personality, that is, he feels that everyone is out to get him, he could not survive for long as a favorite among the fans. He misconstrued the cheers as a trap. Every clap of the hand was perceived by Piper as an attempt by the fans and other wrestlers to lull him into a false nest of security, whereupon they could pounce upon him and kill him.
âRecently, Mr. Piper returned to Portland, Oregon, and was cheered on in his match against Buddy Rose. Piper loves the cheers and it is his most fervent subconscious desire to allow for a dialogue between him and the fans to develop. But he cannot. In psychological terms, his egoâthe mediator of oneâs actionsâhas raged too far out of control. He cannot stand to share the spotlight with anyone else, and therefore must continue his path of destruction toward anyone who stands between himself and fame.â
ON PIPER THE RULEBREAKER:
âThe quickest route to fame, Piper discovered, was to deny the existence of any and all rules. Piper is a textbook egocentricâhe feels the world begins and ends with himself. Since the world becomes his, he then becomes the final authority on any and all things. Piper has no superego, or conscience. This has allowed him to perpetuate all sorts of homicidal violence without the least tinge of guilt or fear of retaliation. That is what makes Roddy Piper the most dangerous man in professional wrestling.Â
âThe constant disregard for the rules that govern society fuels Piperâs delusions of grandeur. He is not only above the law. He is the law.â
ON PIPER THE INTERVIEWER:
âWatching a Piper interview is a cathartic experience, much like watching a horror movie or a spy thrillerâwhen itâs over, the individual is flooded with a sharp sense of relief; he has survived and gets to leave the theater. Piperâs interviews are truly terrifying experiences. Entering the âPiperâs Pit.â is a metaphor for entering hell itself. The interviewee becomes a useless prop, a sounding board against which Piper can vent his rage against society.
âHere is Piper at his most dangerous. His mood swingsâfrom calm to petulant to homicidalâcome so quickly that his guest cannot prepare himself. It is the interviews that provide us real evidence of Piperâs thought disorders. His rambling speeches, punctuated by staccato bursts of nonsense, illustrate serious problems in the cognitive process. Piper makes judgments based upon the moment at hand. To some, this lack of concern for the future would indicate suicidal tendencies, but I think it is even more serious than that. Piper feels that without him there to guide it, the world would end.â
[Piper puts Rocky Johnson in a sleeperhold (above). Capt. Lou Albano is put to sleep in an entirely different way (below). Piper slams a plaque over Albanoâs head in the famous incident that turned Albano into a fan favorite.]
ON PIPER THE WRESTLER:
âPiper shows the same callous disregard for his opponents in the ring as he does on his interviews. Any opponent is a potential threat to his imaginary title reign. There is no divide too brutal that he would not use to protect himself and his allies.â
ON PIPER AND HIS KILT:
âWearing a skirt in no way clouds his sexuality. Among his many personality disorders, there is no evidence of sexual ambiguity. The skirt is merely another attention-getting divide, and is the most harmless one he possesses.â
RODDY PIPER IN CONCLUSION:
âRoddy Piper is a danger to himself and to everyone he comes in contact with. He is self-destructive, but his need for fame and attention outweighs his desire to destroy. He could very well become a fan favorite at some point in his career and he would be a very believable one. However, the moment someone encroaches on his territory, he becomes capable of anything. He is a bomb waiting to explode and should be watched at all times.â
Notable titles held: ECW world heavyweight title (11/5/00); NWA world heavyweight totle (4/24/01); NWA world American heavyweight title (4/13/01); PWF world heavyweight title (3/1/01); NWA world light heavyweight title ( 3/14/97); NWA United States tag team title (7/31/98 - with Lance Diamond); NWA 2000 American Heritage title (10/11/97)
At a glance:
âThe King of Old Schoolâ reigned supreme in ECW with his propensity for old-school wrestling, a la Dusty Rhodes, whom he battled in the federation. Now he wrestled periodically for Rhodesâ Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling while not doing his duty at National Wrestling Alliance champion.
Feuds and angles:
As âThe King of Old School,â it seems fitting that Corino holds what is allegedly wrestlingâs oldest title - the NWA championship. He battled âColorado Kidâ Mike Rapada for the belt, and Rapada wants the belt back.
Coming soon:
It is unlikely that Corino will latch on to the WWF or the new WCW, but his status in the indies is secure. Even if he does lose the NWA title, he will probably gain it back, and an appearance on Rhodesâ scheduled November pay-per-view is almost guaranteed. âThe King of Old Schoolâ will become âThe King of the Indies.â
Overhead:
âOn Tuesday night, April 24, 2001, I fulfilled a boyhood dream when I defeated Mike Rapada to become the 52nd NWA world heavyweight champion. When I started watching professional wrestling in 1981, the first championship I aw on televisionwas the same on that I won on Tuesday. The man holding it was none other than âNature Boyâ Ric Flair. For almost 20 years I dreamed of one day holding that championship.âÂ
