The Ebony Experience (Booker T and Stevie Ray from GWF) was scheduled to debut in WCW this week as a group called The Posse, but the debut was nixed at the last minute. Why, you ask? Well, the original idea was for the team to be managed by Col. Rob Parker. They would be brought in (by the white southerner) in chains and shackles. The idea was they would be escaped murderers but obviously, the visual invokes slavery. Sid Vicious is responsible for bringing the duo in because he was so impressed by them at the Kerry Von Erich memorial show that he convinced WCW to hire them. Booker T and Stevie Ray were all dressed up and ready to go on television when Eric Bischoff learned about the angle (no one had told him prior) and when he found out the extent of it, he nixed the whole thing immediately before they could go to the ring. When WCW President Bill Shaw learned of it, he was furious and wanted to know who's idea the gimmick was, but no one is taking the credit/blame. The tag team is still going to work for WCW, but now they're being called Chi-Town Heat (close) and will no longer have the prisoner/slave gimmick.
