TSC Evaluation #25: Booker T

[Riley Escobar]

King Booker was piff

Calling Lawler "Jerrance", misusing Shakespearean language then randomly switching back to hood Booker when he was pissed off

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Mic Work/Promos: 7. Can't remember any specific promos, but he was always solid whether it was Harlem Heat, his WCW face run, or King Booker.

Personality/Gimmick: 8. Booker always came across as cool. Especially during his TV title run in WCW. King Booker was pretty funny and entertaining.

Ring work: 7. A good wrestler who has had a lot of good matches throughout his career. Very few of them I would actually consider great. Best matches and feuds would be against Benoit (Best of 7 in WCW) and HHH (at WM).

Overall: 7. I watched Booker all through his career... GWF, WWE, WCW, TNA. I liked him best when he was in WCW. The King gimmick was entertaining, but it seems to me like he got lazy in the right once he got to WWE and definitely in his TNA run.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Booker T is a great example of work ethic. Had some shytty hands dealt to him from a young age, with his parents passing, having a kid at a young age and fukked up doing the robberies, went to prison and decided he could do better and got his life back on track.

I give him a 10 off that.

The Austin/Booker segments are classic.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Kang Booker

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Had to scroll back to see what I gave DDP, and gave that to Booker T as well. Booker T, DDP, and Rey Mysterio were 3 of my top 5 WCW wrestlers at the time, so I have nothing but I marks for Booker T here. Dude could basically do everything. Was very well rounded, a very good move-set that he really never had to change up throughout his career. Awesome theme, simple yet distinctive finisher, could talk, dope attires, could work with anybody, and could do any type of gimmick/character, whether comedic or serious. Only knock on Booker T I have is you probably can't point to definite classic matches he's had, just very good matches. The Best of 7 Series from WCW, his feud with Christian, matches with Kurt Angle, Austin, Scott Steiner, various Harlem Heat matches, and even his matches teaming with Goldust. The G.I. Bro gimmick should have never been brought back in WCW, but WCW was pretty much a mess all around at that time. Multiple people since 2003 (including myself) have talked about the Booker/HHH feud in much detail, so I won't even go into any more detail about how much of a travesty of him not winning at WM that was. Booker was nuclear hot and the fans were begging for him to win, but HHH gonna HHH and WWE gonna WWE. King Booker was a tremendous gimmick and was probably the best thing going in the WWE at that time when the WWE was pretty bad. He was most definitely a highlight then. I'd even say he had a solid TNA run. The Main Event Mafia stable was both and . Booker pretty much accomplished everything you could possibly want as a wrestler, especially for a black wrestler that is basically starting from scratch. He's doing his thing with Reality of Wrestling as well, trying to put people on. No complaints here, Booker is probably THE GOAT black wrestler, and an all around legend in general.

 

[puppetmaster]

Booker T is a great example of work ethic. Had some shytty hands dealt to him from a young age, with his parents passing, having a kid at a young age and fukked up doing the robberies, went to prison and decided he could do better and got his life back on track.

I give him a 10 off that.

The Austin/Booker segments are classic.

if he becomes Mayor he needs a movie on his life. dead serious. Even without it he's still had a life story hollywood always tries to script


Booker is a 9 to me, he could work tags, singles, he could talk seriously or comedic, he could wrestle bigs, brawlers, technicals, high flyers. He survived WWE trying to squash him when he showed up in 2001 even though dude was ready for primetime. He should've gotten that WWE lineage belt at some point too

 

[James Dean]

-Mic work/promos 7. He could talk. I dont have many memorable promos but hes had some good moments. King Booker was piff in this area.

-Personality/gimmicks 8. Solid dude. Made the King gimmick work. Actually pulled off some of the WCW Gimmicks they gave him. And of course, his most iconic and successful that he runs with today.

-Ring work (along with some of your favorite matches/feuds) 7. Best feud was against Benoit. I enjoyed his MEM run too. I think his best match was against Benoit at Armageddon 2005 actually. His role in the first Elimination Chamber was good too.

-Overall rating (which doesn't have to be an average of the above scores)

Ill give him an 8. Overall one of the all time best and did alot for his time and his lane.

 

[Nintendough]

10. Member of a GOAT tag team, called hulk hoegan a nikka, was a legit main event guy. Slick moves, good on the stick, produced many classic moments. Def an all time A list guy.

 

[Rout3r2035]

Anything less than an 8 is getting negged

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

10
no explanation needed

 

[dbp]

He's a lot like Angle and Jericho. Great all around. Can play different roles convincingly, face or heel, and has no real weakness, despite not being a GOAT in any one category. Physically could work a lot of different styles too.

High 8 / low 9 from me.

 

[mrken12]

He's a lot like Angle and Jericho. Great all around. Can play different roles convincingly, face or heel, and has no real weakness, despite not being a GOAT in any one category. Physically could work a lot of different styles too.

High 8 / low 9 from me.

He's not on Angle's level in any way.

 

[8WON6]

quite possibly the most underrated wrestler ever. The only thing that truly held him back from being in that Hogan/Flair/HBK/Rock/Austin stratosphere was race. Booker could talk, he could be serious, he could do comedy, he could brawl, he could go with the smaller technical guys, he could do some agile/aerial stuff, he had catchphrases, he paid his dues, he had multiple successful tag teams, he is the BEST VERSION OF A WRESTLING "KING" EVER and that's including king savage or Jerry lawler. He could do everything at a high level.

i gave him a 9.

 

[Golayitdown]

There was almost nothing Booker couldn't do in the ring or out of it. He had a legendary tag run and a great singles run in WCW, then still stayed great throughout his tenure in WWE. He is my number two guy in history that could turn shyt into sugar (number 1 being his partner Golddust funny enough). There's no way he was supposed to survive coming over to the E as the pretty much the only black main eventer from WCW and have so much success. From the grocery stuff with Austin to the HHH bullshyt to BookDust to King Bookah (GOAT king btw) he took it all in strife and was always entertaining.

I didn't watch much of TNA, but he was even there too.

He's a personal 10 to me, especially with all the bullshyt he's been given. Realistically, I could see him as a 8/9 since there are only about 2 dozen guys American guys who have made an impact or are just good enough to justify that 10.

 

[Daracell]

Booker is a legend no doubt, sad that his only WrestleMania moment was jobbing to Triple H