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Originally Posted by taker707
more like donut shop chris? Right and please please explain to me how Jarrett or
Steiner are stars? Jarrett was a star in WCW but only because Russo was his buddy and pushed him. If Jarrett is so great why didn't Vince offer him any kind of deal when WCW flopped? Jarrett had to go create his own company just to have a job. and Steiner well hes just bat shit crazy and never really a star. If you go on the street in any city in America and ask anybody if they have heard of jeff Jarrett or Scott Steiner most are gonna say WHO. Booker T ill give you because he was able to go to WWE and make himself a star.
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Booker T mentors rising TNA stars
By Jamie Jones
jamiejones@daltoncitizen.com
With 20 years of punches, body slams and countless pro wrestling matches behind him, Booker T has taken on a new role: Mentor.
Booker T (Booker Huff-man) is using his years of experience - and lessons learned from title reigns in WCW and WWE - to help the younger wrestlers in Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling become stars in their own right.
"For me at this stage of my game, I don't have to do anything for me," Huffman said. "It's about me trying to bring these guys to another level. My fans follow me all over the world. They know me wherever I go. So it's not about me. It's trying to help these guys get to another position."
As a kid, Huffman watch-ed pro wrestling on television, but unlike many in the industry, he never envisioned himself in the ring. Huffman admits that he "fell into it" when he was 25. He says he was "a troubled youth" and didn't play sports growing up. His real life and in-ring brother, Stevie Ray, decided to take an eight-week training course for $3,000 to become a wrestler.
"After the course, you got a little plaque saying you were a professional wrest-ler," Huffman said with a laugh.
With the plaque in hand, Huffman went to work for smaller promotions in Texas, performing in front of sparse crowds in high school gyms. Finally he got his big break when a representative with the Dallas-based Global Wrestling Federation spotted Huffman and his brother in the early 1990s. He would commute from Houston to Dallas every Friday night for 18 months, earning only $125 for each show. But the GWF had exposure through a television deal with ESPN.
Then it was on to World Championship Wrestling. Sid Vicious, who was a star in the Atlanta-based organization, spotted Huffman and his brother on a television broadcast. A few months later, as the tag team Harlem Heat, the Huffmans were on their way to playing a major role in WCW.
"For some reason I felt like we were really close in WCW," Huffman said. "It was almost like a family atmosphere. I miss those days. I actually thought I would retire with WCW. If it would have lasted, I think I would still be with WCW."
Huffman said there were several people who helped him through the years, but he credits the controversial Vince Russo for making him a star. It was Russo who pushed for Huffman to become WCW's world heavyweight champion. Russo has also been blamed for the demise of WCW.