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00:00All hail King Booker!
00:06Get your spinneroonies ready for the five time.
00:10Bob top, Bob top.
00:12WCW champion.
00:14Booker T's the champ.
00:16Yeah, we did just say that.
00:18Today we look back at the very best of Booker T.
00:21Give him all the hardware, he's the man.
00:25This is WWE's greatest moments.
00:29Now can't you dig that, sucker?
00:32My God, no call to the fan man.
00:39This is surreal.
00:42Look at that.
00:43It's out of here.
00:50Welcome everyone to WWE's Greatest Moments.
00:54I'm Michael Cole, and on this edition, we're looking back at the greatest moments
00:57of the two time Hall of Fame career of the one and only Booker T.
01:02The Booker Man has one of the most decorated careers in all of professional wrestling.
01:07A five time, five time, five time, four time, five time WCW champion.
01:14Holding 21 titles, the most in WCW history.
01:18King of the ring.
01:19He's the voice of NXT.
01:21A coach on LFG.
01:23But when they feel you, is it here?
01:25And even had a Latin Grammy award winning Bad Bunny song about him.
01:29Can you dig it, sucker?
01:32There's no denying the charisma that comes with Booker T.
01:35Boom!
01:36Let me see something.
01:37Right there.
01:38Yep, right there.
01:39And one of his signature moves is the infamous Spinner Rooney.
01:42There's nothing like seeing Booker get in the zone to get the crowd hyped.
01:46But many fans wonder where the genesis of this breakdance took place.
01:54Major League Wrestling fans were taking our first look at a new tag team here in the area.
01:59Booker T and Stevie Ray.
02:02When it came to wrestling, I didn't know what was going to happen.
02:05I had to do everything to make it happen.
02:08I used to love dancing.
02:10If you were a kid from the neighborhood, he was offered to dance.
02:14Breakdancing was really, really huge.
02:16I said, man, I'm going to try this down.
02:18So I started breakdancing.
02:19Let's break it out!
02:21Whoa, what do you think of that, Gary?
02:23When I got a chance to just bring a little bit of that world inside of the wrestling ring,
02:27I learned the power of entertainment that night.
02:31It has been a part of my career since day one.
02:34I think the Spinner Rooney started out as this cool thing that Booker could do and slowly morphed itself.
02:39It just takes on a whole life of its own.
02:42JR, here it is!
02:43Right here!
02:44Here it comes!
02:45Here it comes!
02:46You're about to witness it!
02:47Oh, it's the most electrifying spin-a-rooney I've ever seen!
02:51Do the spin-a-rooney.
02:52He had the leg thing.
02:53He had the look.
02:54Look at that hand.
02:56The flair for drama.
02:58It starts with the hand, of course.
03:00You drop to one knee.
03:02All the centrifugal force comes from the dreads.
03:05You know, shake.
03:06Once you shake the dreads, it goes through the body all the way down to the legs.
03:10Everybody's doing spin-a-rooney's all over the country!
03:13You want to see The Rock do?
03:14The Rock-a-rooney!
03:18When I did the spin-a-rooney's, everything changed.
03:21It was pretty awesome to see the effect that it had on not just those fans, but throughout
03:26my whole career.
03:29Upon their debut, Booker T and his brother, Stevie Ray, dominated the WCW tag team scene
03:34as Harlem Heat.
03:35With their manager, sister Sherry, by their side, the duo were undeniable in the ring.
03:41Harlem Heat is the most collectively cohesive unit in professional sports.
03:46And it didn't take long for them to have the opportunity at their first tag team championship
03:51against the team known as Stars and Stripes.
03:54Booker T and Stevie Ray looking to become yet another great brother tag team to hold the
04:01belts.
04:02The most prestigious tag team award in this sport.
04:05We were pretty good as a tag team, but we did know that we wanted to be the greatest
04:09tag team that ever put on a pair of boots.
04:12The right foot right in the eye.
04:14Well, the match we have going on.
04:16Two teams giving it their all.
04:17My brother played his role.
04:19I played my role.
04:20We were a cohesive unit.
04:22Both of us brought the pain in our own way.
04:25Together, we gelled.
04:26We had good chemistry.
04:28People came to see us.
04:29People wanted to see us.
04:31We took pride in that.
04:32The Patriots missed the clothesline.
04:34So did Stevie Ray.
04:36They both go down.
04:38And I don't think they're the legal man here.
04:41Come on.
04:42Here's a cover by Booker T.
04:44That's not the legal man.
04:45One, two, three.
04:46That's good enough.
04:47We got new champions.
04:49That's one of the matches that everybody remembers.
04:51It really solidified us as players in the game now.
04:55The world tag team champions.
04:57It was a hell of a night winning our first WCW Tag Team Championships.
05:01It let us know that we were on the radar.
05:03It let us know we had a chip in the game.
05:05Straight to the top of WCW.
05:07That's something we always took pride in.
05:09Is that we played an intricate part of WCW going to the next level.
05:14To let us know that that was the beginning of something very, very special.
05:21Booker T eventually went on to have a very successful singles career in WCW as well.
05:26But on March 26, 2001, World Championship Wrestling would close its doors for good.
05:32I, Vince McMahon, bought my competition.
05:37That's right.
05:38I own WCW.
05:41The last Monday Nitro aired with a special title unification match between world champion Scott Steiner and United States champion Booker T.
05:50Booker T looked to end the WCW story by holding not one, but two championships.
05:56The final telecast of Monday Nitro on TNT.
06:02A historic day in sports entertainment.
06:05The end of WCW was the end of an era.
06:08If you were there, you definitely felt a certain way.
06:11A lot of people backstage, it was like, what the hell is going on?
06:15It was shocking.
06:18We're going out with the bang.
06:19All the titles on the line.
06:21Here we go.
06:23That's a match that I remember vividly, like, seared in my brain.
06:26Booker T brings into this match heart and athleticism to the Harlem sidekick.
06:32We did the best show that we could do.
06:34Steiner's got him in his punches.
06:38Scott went out there, he made me look good.
06:41Booker T calling for the fans.
06:45Put me in a position where I was making history.
06:48Here he comes!
06:51It was awesome.
06:52The energy in the arena was fantastic.
06:55Picks him up, Booker T.
06:57Lanes on his feet.
06:58He's got it!
06:59Booker!
07:01One!
07:02Two!
07:03Could it be it?
07:04Yes!
07:05Booker T!
07:06He's got two titles.
07:07Give him all the hardware!
07:09It was awesome, as an African American youth,
07:11watching someone like Booker do great things.
07:14We wanted to have, you know, happy happy joy joy last night for the WCW audience.
07:20It was the right thing to do, to put the championship on him.
07:23I felt really good.
07:24I'm the US champ and I'm the world champ and I'm closing the company now.
07:28This is a good night.
07:29While WCW was ultimately purchased by WWE, many of WCW's former superstars began invading WWE programming.
07:42WCW is still on page!
07:44The EP!
07:45It's Lance Thorne!
07:46The WCW wrestler!
07:47Many were anticipating the arrival of its champion.
07:52We are at our main event, in the king of the ring!
07:58The Turbo Thread match, to determine the richest prize in the game.
08:03Booker T said, I want to be a star on the biggest platform I can.
08:07Booker had enough confidence in himself to step up and say, put me in.
08:13Wait a minute!
08:14What the hell?!
08:16Wait, that's Booker, that's Booker T!
08:21He's the WCW champion!
08:23The WCW champion has just attacked the WWF champion!
08:28Coming from WCW and coming over to WWE, I was ready to go out there and show those guys I was just as good as I said I was.
08:37Oh my god!
08:38The sidewalk slam!
08:40Booker T just throws Stone Cold!
08:43Stone Cold Steve Austin bounced off the top of his table all the way to the floor.
08:48Bang!
08:49My first thought was, what in the F just happened?
08:53What the hell?!
08:55If you take out one of the top guys in your first day, it makes people look at you a little bit differently.
09:00Booker T has decimated the WWF champion!
09:05It was a great night for me. I was pretty hyped up.
09:08Booker T came through the crowd, is leaving through the crowd.
09:13But he has done his damage!
09:18Our next moment would lead to an intense rivalry between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Booker T.
09:24Stone Cold breaks down to the fireman!
09:27And Booker T running for his life!
09:30As much as Booker T tried to evade the Texas Rattlesnake, there was nowhere safe to go.
09:37I took a shot, bitch.
09:40We're gonna save the road pass on aisle two.
09:42That's aisle two.
09:43Awesome.
09:44Here's a blank canvas that Booker T and I are gonna have an opportunity to paint together.
09:50Action.
09:51We created magic.
09:55Yeah!
09:56Austin!
09:57Austin!
09:58Austin!
09:59I'm talking Booker T!
10:04You guys let loose in a grocery store.
10:07It was a spectacle.
10:08It was a great piece of entertainment.
10:11As he's beating Booker T up, he's able to do all the catchphrases for the products that he's using on him.
10:16You have any grapefruit, bud?
10:18Huh?
10:19That's a grapefruit.
10:21Oh, I like that.
10:23Everything Steve said, it was at-lib.
10:26Everything that I said, was at-lib.
10:28Please, I won't do that.
10:29You look like you used to go in, Booker.
10:31Please, I won't do those.
10:32Please.
10:33Please.
10:35The grocery store stuff with Steve, the ability to make an ass of yourself as an art.
10:39He didn't care.
10:40He was all for entertainment.
10:41That's how Booker was.
10:42Oh!
10:43Booker with a shot to the jaw of Austin!
10:45Hey, Book.
10:46You got built this.
10:47Oh!
10:48Got built!
10:49Man, we can really get something out of this.
10:51That's what I'm thinking.
10:52You want it, Bert?
10:53Ah!
10:54Ah!
10:55Something like this, with someone like Booker T, who embraces the theatrics and the drama
11:00and the shenanigans that go with it, is all the more fun.
11:04Ice kick on dick ass!
11:06It was a moment that people go to remember for the rest of their lives.
11:10I'm gonna get you.
11:11When you think of the most outrageous duos in WWE history, you have to mention the odd
11:18pairing of Booker T and the bizarre Goldust.
11:21Sucker.
11:22These two formed an unlikely partnership that led to some of the most entertaining moments
11:31in WWE history.
11:32Tell me I don't look like that!
11:35Sucker.
11:36Sucker.
11:37Sucker.
11:38Sucker.
11:39Sucker.
11:40To the premiere edition of Goldust and Booker T at the movies.
11:45What up, dog?
11:47Me and Booker are an odd couple.
11:49Completely opposite.
11:50And our chemistry just clicked, man.
11:52It was so easy with Booker.
11:53Booker, thank you.
11:54Thank you very much.
11:55The entertainment part.
11:56He was perfect for it.
11:57Man, take that gold crap off!
11:59To me, it was just another match made in heaven.
12:00It was some of the best stuff WWE has ever done.
12:02But I ain't no Star Wars geek.
12:03I ain't never watched a movie and never will.
12:04We didn't know how big it was gonna get or how much the fans were gonna really buy it
12:06and how much they were gonna love it.
12:07Can you dig it, sucker?
12:08Sucker.
12:09The music hit.
12:10Boom.
12:11The place erupted.
12:12I was like, holy hell.
12:13The World Tag Team titles on the line here at Armageddon.
12:16Everybody's here for the same thing.
12:17And that is to walk out the new World Tag Team Champions.
12:20Booker T and Goldust.
12:21Perhaps, in the eyes of many of the emotional favorites here tonight.
12:43in the beginning it was just a novelty but at the end people felt a certain way about it
12:59by 2003 fans were digging booker t as he had proven himself to be one of the most popular
13:11wwe superstars of the earth i will become the new intercontinental champion now can you dig that
13:22sucker so needless to say when booker challenged the villainous christian for the intercontinental
13:28championship on raw there was a clear odds on failure
13:32that is the workhorse title and christian and booker t are both in my opinion workhorses
13:49so i was excited as a fan to watch them and here we go the intercontinental title is officially
13:55on the line these men know each other very well they have developed one hellacious rock out here
14:01i remember just having so much fun in the chemistry christian and i had it was awesome
14:05two guys who can absolutely go in the ring oh no christian and i we had been working together
14:13for some time and the championship just had been eluding me and eluding me
14:19but booker t no doesn't miss on the scissors kick that's gotta be it
14:25yes it is booker t booker t has done it
14:31after one two three crowd erupted
14:35finally booker t has fought his way to the mountaintop winning the championship was really
14:42really cool that was a moment finally for the first time booker t is the victor continental champion
14:50the pageantry of the king of the ring tournament has been one of the most celebrated events for
15:00decades proclaiming the king of the ring the 2006 finals took place a judgment day
15:09where bobby lashley battled booker t and while we didn't know who would be crowned that night
15:14we never expected the winner to become such a royal pain
15:18superstars compete in a tournament with the winner being crowned the king of the ring
15:27so this is it the finals of the king of the ring tournament bobby lashley like the young
15:32powerhouse you look at the guy it was like a million bucks
15:35he's gonna of course cheat at some point to win
15:42it wasn't just that he won the tournament
15:49it's that he put the crown on his head and he put that single pinky up in the air
15:56i'm gonna make sure that this character is something that people are going to remember
16:02for the rest of their lives
16:03all hail king baca
16:07i don't know why he had an english accent
16:12who is this rogue
16:15what is this unsotting maiden
16:19to be able to snap back from my british accent to getting really hot to talking like a street kid
16:25put the damn crown on my dome
16:27put the damn crown on my dome
16:29you have the ability to pull off just about anything
16:32like one of the most entertaining characters ever king booker
16:35i could not have been king booker without queen charmel
16:37if she had to play a role and do the dastardly deed she would be there to do it every time
16:43it's like king arthur coming out with gwendevere
16:45wrong live king booker
16:53with his pinky held high king booker led a tyrannical reign over the smackdown kingdom
16:58you will kiss the royal feet of king booker
17:04god
17:05oh man
17:06but his majesty's sights were set on more than just the crown
17:10at the great american bash 2006 his royal highness promised to vanquish ray misterio
17:15of the world heavyweight championship
17:18it is a big fight feel here tonight in indianapolis indiana
17:24the champion ray misterio and the challenger king booker
17:30this will be one hell of a matchup
17:32working with ray misterio who i always considered as my favorite wrestler
17:36i remember going out there with booker t the chemistry was just there
17:41oh wow
17:43to me the guys that are really great in this business are guys that can do it all
17:47it's what to me puts booker in the top echelon is his ability to tear it up
17:52royal booket
17:54the royal booket
17:55king booker is world champion
18:01it is the king's time
18:03that was an incredible match wow
18:05the only king to ever win that world heavyweight championship
18:10it meant a lot it meant a lot
18:13long live the king
18:14it is now time for our number one moment
18:21we've spoken about the impressive resume of booker t with his many championship titles
18:25but let's go back to the very first world title
18:29booker t was finally granted the opportunity
18:32he had waited his entire career for
18:34opportunity has knocked and i will be damned if i don't answer that though
18:38a world championship match against jeff jared at wcw's bash at the beach
18:432000
18:46opportunity knocks and booker t has stepped through the open door
18:51i always wondered if the fans wanted to see a black champion
18:54if the fans really wanted to see me in that position or they didn't want to jeff jared to
19:00i don't know look at that agility see amazing drop kick the boot
19:05his athletic ability he had hops as we say
19:08scissor kicks and his spinning back kick
19:11booker t and jeff jared brawling through the crowd giving the fans everything they bargained
19:17for went frankly a little bit more
19:18i was like wow they really care about me they really want to see me win
19:22it's very very important to see people who look like you doing great things because it just gives
19:42you a visual confirmation and affirmation that you too can do it because you've seen it done
19:48if booker t can do this so cannot anybody who knows booker t behind the scenes like we do knows
19:54that he is a man deserving of this moment it's one of my most fond memories in my career
19:59i'm the guy that booker b become the world champion for his very first title reign i'm pretty proud
20:05of it it's every young man's dream to be the champion and on this night booker t earned it i was
20:12a part of it and i'm definitely happy to have been a part of the moment that changed my life
20:18booker t is the literal embodiment of hard work paying off which garnered him hall of fame status
20:25not once but twice well that'll do it for this edition of wwe's greatest moments i hope you've
20:31enjoyed this look back at the greatest moments from the legendary booker t now can you dig that sucker
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