The Story of Harlem Heat
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Wrestling Bios Presents - The Story of Harlem Heat
Before Booker T made his way to the WWE, he and brother Stevie Ray were Harlem Heat, a WCW tag team that had incredible success during their active years. While working in World Championship Wrestling, Harlem Heat would win the WCW Tag Team Championships a record 10 times, making Booker T and Stevie Ray the most decorated tag team in WCW history.
Things weren't easy for Harlem Heat before and during their WCW debut. After a rough upbringing and life on the streets, Booker T found himself in trouble. Stevie Ray suggested that his brother gets involved in pro wrestling, and it wasn't long before Booker and Stevie were teaming up as The Ebony Experience. When the brothers made their way to WCW, they debuted with a gimmick that didn't sit well with audiences and executives. Initially known as Kole and Kane, Harlem Heat would eventually ditch their initial gimmick and add Sister Sherri to the group while also changing their names to Booker T and Stevie Ray, and the Harlem Heat we all know was born.
In this mini documentary from Wrestling Bios, we take a look at The Story of Harlem Heat. Topics covered:
01:44 - The Early Days of Booker T and Stevie Ray
03:33 - The Ebony Experience
04:36 - Booker T and Stevie Ray
06:21 - The Harlem Heat WCW Debut
08:31 - Harlem Heat at WCW Hog Wild 1996
09:34 - Harlem Heat vs The Outsiders
11:03 - The infamous "We Comin For You" Booker T promo directed at Hulk Hogan
12:04 - Booker T wins the WCW TV Championship
13:36 - Harlem Heat adds Midnight to the group
14:04 - Harlem Heat 2000
and much more!
#wrestling #wwe #documentary
"Suckas got's to know!" If you've never heard an episode of Stevie Ray's podcast you are severely missing out!😂😂
@Kevin Smith Unfortunately you have a point. I haven't seen anything new in forever😔
I have, the man has a lot of good points. Course its mostly his lil bro. Book running it in his absence n that's kool i always been a huge fan of Booker T.
I made a comment about that segment and thought that I was the only one who remembered that! "Suckas got to know." Thank you bro. 🙏🙏🙏
Stevie Ray is the man
I was just watching that podcast a lot, lately! But where the hell did it go?🤷♂️
"Hulk Hogan!, We're coming after you, Ninja!!!" - Booker T
"Well let me tell you something N*gga!" - Hulk Hogan
@Brian Swope We was crying ROTFL when he said it!
Well its not like Hulk Hogan hasn't used the word before 🤔🤔🤔
@@amtownsyou That not Hogan don't ever disrespect him like that 😡.........He would use the hard ER like a true Merican
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
@@kingsasuke86 that's true 😂😂😂
When the Harlem heat theme song came on you had no choice but to dance 😂😂😂
"Raise tha roof"
Smh here we go...
There's always a choice. Has someone been making you dance?
Good tune
It's a catchy tune. It has aged well.
I loved watching Harlem Heat, especially Booker in WCW. Bookers matches with Benoit were top notch and Bookers "Harlem Hangover" finisher (front flip into a leg drop from top rope) was absolutely insane. He didn't do it very often because the move was so dangerous.
The Harlem hangover
The Harlem heat are one of my favourite tag teams of all time. I love Booker T but when I first saw Stevie Ray on Tv back in 95 here in Scotland, Man. I was in Awe. He's one big dude that could kick anyone's arse
Well yeah he could you'd imagine Scotland is full of small inbred backwoods weirdos.
Norm have you ever been to Scotland you mutant ?
@@norm1233 you're an idiot
Harlem Heat very underated tag team
Booker T 🖐🏿 times WCW championship ✌🏿 times Hall Of Famer
Underrated by who? 🤣
When you log onto RUclips and wrestling bios uploads a video straight away, it was meant to be 💘
You need to do a Booker T bio.
🙏🙏🙏
They don't get enough respect in the business.
Booker T does.... Stevie Ray doesn’t.
@@JFatzDaKeyz I wouldn't say that both brothers got credit that they deserve just because Booker t when his own way doesn't mean he don't love his brother he does they are brother no matter what
@@demaificationhe went to.wrestle for wwe after wcw folded even TNA STEVIE DIDNT HE retired after.wcw Folded.
They were THE Road warriors of wcw.
My favourite tag team of all team 👊🏾💯
Sister Sherri Martel was the best! I used to love watching her. I still miss her. RIP
She was so 🔥 so underrated frfr
I almost never comment on any videos. I just want to say your videos are fantastic. They have the ability to brighten up an otherwise shitty day. Thank you, man.
Yep, Totally Agree with Ya!!
Well said. Totally agreed.
Loved Harlem Heat and their entrance music. Next to the Steiners and the Hardy Boys, H.H. is one of the best tag teams of all time.
I would say the Steiners, Hart Foundation, Road Warriors, the Rock 'N Roll and Midnight Express and Demolition along with Harlem Heat.
Truly one of the greatest tag teams of all time. Pity they never wrestled in the wwf.
Everything doesn't need to be under the wwe banner
@@maxwelljacobfreedomBooker T could've retired after WCW closed and still would've gone down as one of the greatest to lace up a pair of boots.
I would've loved to see The Harlem Heat vs. The Hart Foundation.
Maybe WrestlingBio's will do a "vs." Series. Base it on their techniques and records.
That would have been a very interesting match up. After reading the comment I thought on it and it would have had so many good angles to lead into great matches.
@ Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart
U did have Neidhart only they never did much with him sadly. So no Hart type foundation
The Harlem Heat vs The British Bulldog
Between Harlem Heat and The Steiners my favorite tag teams. Everyday it changes between 1A and 1B.
Their matches together were always good.
"Now can you dig it suckah!" Harlem Heat. One of the top 10 greatest tag teams of all time. So many great memories growing up. Sister Sheri was as real as they come. Miss you so much. Wish she had still been with us to induct her men into the hall of fame. One of the few things WCW did right- booking them to the moon, Booker T as a solo superstar & world champion. To all three of you, will always love you.
Watching this on my lunch break at work today
@@paulcowlishaw
I work in a nursing home I'm in Dietary and from Illinois
Loved Harlem Heat. I forgot about the Kane and Kole names tho.
I hated when he changed his name to booker t
But as a kid I always thought stevie ray name was king not kane 🤷🏿♂️
@@corywilliams9338 i never liked GI Bro.
One of the best tag teams of all time and one of my favorites while your on tag teams do the Rock n Roll Express please.
Love your channel man. I've been watching this series for awhile and you don't do a great job of getting personal backstories along with backstage dealings into your videos. I really appreciate that, and for me, your channel is a must see history of wrestling series. Thank you.
Their intro got you pumped up and you know there was gonna be a good match
Did you know? Booker T got his catchphrase from the movie The Warriors.
Cyrus
Of course lol.
Duh
Can you dig it got it they guys were like eddie murphy and wesley snipes all pumped back when Booker T has the arsenal hall haircut these guys were so over
Yes
Booker was great as a TT and a single wrestler. Imagine what would have happenee if WCW never died? He would have had a great world championship run for a long time. His best of 7 matches with Benoit was classic.
Harlem heat and the road warriors are my favorite tag teams
Gotta throw the Rock-N-Roll Express, the Midnight Express and Demolition to round out my Top 5.
This is my favorite bio now. You're research is crazy good.💪🏾💪🏾
Very Good Bio on the “Harlem Heat❗️”
“ It’s on like a Steamin’ Pot of Neck 🦴 Bones 🦴 ❗️”
Thank you sooo much for this video. These guys were a huge part of my childhood.
Man!! Now you are talking. To me, this is the greatest tag team of all time, even better than the Road Warriors and the Hart Foundation. Even more dominating Demolition was; these dudes were it!!
Always loved Harlem heat, keep up the awesome videos
When i was a younger lad, i thought their theme song said,"yes, yes, yes...no, no, no." I miss my childhood lol
Was it "match match match, gold gold gold?" I thought the theme music also said "yes, no" also.
@@princeekeson12 it's ICE and COLD
@@andrewnyman4128 👍
I thought it was hiss hiss hiss(like a snake).
Wow you know until watching this I didnt realize how long ago that was or how much I loved watching those guys work
Another favourite tag team of mine.
Definitely my favorite tag team
Great Channel one of my favorites overall on RUclips. Very detailed and informative thank you for the content. I think a Booker T bio would be great. Thanks again
They are without question the most decorated team in WCW history.Adding Sherri to the team was the icing on the 🎂.Their Hall of Fame induction was well deserved and long overdue.
I am really surprised that you do not have any dedicated Booker T video on this channel. He was a huge star and really should deserve his own video about his career.
Every time I saw Harlem Heat wrestle, I would say "Booker is good enough to be world champion but it will never happen". I was so happy to be wrong....5 times!
And it should have been 6 times. Damn Triple H.
@@sub4you282 was six times King Booker gimmick
Yeah Triple H is a douche
I can see how Booker T may have been embarrassed (we know we can't say that at work). But ooowweee I don't think I have laughed that hard before or since. Classic.
Not one of the most decorated Tag Teams in WCW....they ARE the most decorated tag team in WCW....who else has won the World Tag Team Championship 10x?
If the Road Warriors didn't jump allover, they would have 10+ titles in any organization.
@@melaniel.4269 Those are great points and I agree. But, if u think about it, it's still impressive that the company trusted this team to hold the titles that many times, even if for short periods. Because u have to be really good to win them in the first place or to even be considered worthy enough to hold them that many times.
Pipe Picasso the road warriors where are a tag team that can’t stay in one promotion for long , their act would get stale
@@melaniel.4269 the Dudleyz would have long a$$ reigns with the ECW tag titles.
@@melaniel.4269 Benoit and Malenko were a good team. They were both Horsemen.
Harlem Heat...one of the greatest tag teams in wrestling history
Omg i'm so glad that chain gang thing never went on tv.
But CrimeTyme did. Walking stereotypes. Lol. I hated that gimmick. But WWE was all about some stereotypes
@@cobracyxx8808 Turner did not air that gimmick 4 obvious reasons. He made the right call to tell management, change the gimmick. Helped both Booker n his bro in the long run.
@@Machete87 Facts. I'm just saying that Vince would've ran with it and we might not have got to see them become one of the greatest tag teams of all time. Just looking back, lots of wwe's gimmicks were racist and offensive, across the board. Nwa/WCW weren't as creative but they had the talent.
@@cobracyxx8808 u know 4 a fact Eddie Guerrero's was cuz he wasn't that over the top with his whole viva la raza thing in WCW. In WCW that was Konnan's thing with the whole chicano pride. Then Vince later took a step up giving him the whole lie cheat n steal gimmick havin Guerrero go out in a lowrider in his intro. Yeah that was pretty racist, although he got so over with it cuz he made it work n he was very over with fans heel or face.
@@Machete87 A great example too. Konan was always the gansta hispanic, a trill og. But neither Eddie nor Chavo were like that. I didn't like their wwe gimmick, but they made the best of it. Eddie rode it to the top. It's different if it's you. Like stone cold. It wasn't much of a gimmick, just a Texan who liked to whoop ass n drink beer. Or say the head shrinkers, Samoans with unorthodox technique. But then look at the buschwackers. OMG, looking back, I love them but sorta hate the gimmick. As if Aussies are brainless survivalist. Or the nasty boys or the Brooklyn brawler, poor white folks from NY, damn near bums. Crymetyme!!! Or the Godfather... Seriously? He was papa Shango before that. Or Kamala. The had a wrestler who supposedly rivaled the ultimate warrior yet never had the capacity to figure out how to pin someone. Lmao. I'm not salty about it, it's in the name of entertainment, but damn. It worked at times, lots of times. Like the nation of domination. It just created some dope rivalries like the nation vs dx. The nation by dx was hilarious to me, but HHH n Booker was sorta offensive. Idk man, I chalk it up to entertaining, but sometimes it's like whoa. I don't remember that from nwa/wcw
Love this team...highly underrated
Booker had Shawn Michaels level in ring talent. He deserves to be a two time hall of famer.
Well done man! WCW in the early 90s had some good stuff man you should do a vid on 90-92 wcw
Beef over the letter T ,made me chuckle that one
I met them both in Dallas early 90's. Cool Brothers 💯
Stevie Ray was the money of the two- Sid
Definitely top 5 tag team . I dont care i sait it and i mean it . This Duo doesn't get the respect they deserve. Huge fan from Toronto 🇨🇦.
The theme was awesome , the pyro added to the excitement, but the pure wrestling ability of these two especially booker t made this tag team unforgettable
Regal Pt 4 ? I'll do a spinaroonie! Yet another great Video! Yet to find a flaw in your logic, class act all the way. Thank you for the great content WrestlingBios 💪😘👍
One of the greatest tag teams,and of course,that one liner from Booker,
"Hogan,we comin for you Ni**a"
Lol
Harlem Heat is like the Black Steiner Brothers. Doom vs Harlem Heat would have been epic
Harlem heat is Harlem Heat. They're not the black Steiner's. They are they.
@@C-Lyfe85 Thank you
Harlem heat is so great. I still hate the WWE for what they did to Booker.
What happened
I hate the way we talk about reigns like "7 time Champion" etc. as if winning it and losing it 7 times is better than winning it once and defending it 20 times over a year.
One of the best tag teams
Booker t promo was so legendary and funny “I’m coming for u ni99@ “ lmao
I wish they teamed up when they were in WWE. Even if it meant one time.
I don’t know why, but my favorite part of these awesome videos is hearing the non-copyright version of the music associated with the subject. (In this case, the Harlem Heat theme song)
Thanks for this Awesome Video! U Never Disappoint!
My fav tag team back in the day
I think most if not all fans have sympathy for Booker for saying that. Simply because we can see he genuinely regretted saying it the moment he uttered the word.
Well Deserved... You can't have a Hall Of Fame without the Harlem Heat...
First comment!!! I literally anticipate your videos!!! Thanx for giving us that feeling of nostalgia...
@@pipepicasso8112 LOL!!! You got me bro!!! 🤣🤣🤣😂
I think a bunch of people commented about the same time. 👍
I love Harlem Heat when I was a kid in the early 90s.
Midnight joined Harlem Heat around late 1999 by that time they were already burned🔥 out
Basically Jaqueline Moore grabbed a cup of coffee n just left. Damn.
His name was lash!?! Way better than stevie
3:02 dude in background wants no trouble 😂
My fav part when Book drops the "HULK HOGAN, WE COMIN FOR YOU NIGGA!" is when Sherri just starts smiling and rubbing his shoulder xD she knew lol she knew.
Love this video thank for sharing
It’s not the Hall and Nash didn’t like HH they thought they were money. They were just shoot really good friends with the Steiners so they wanted to work with them at that time.
This makes sense. The Steiners vs Outsiders was booked consistently after Halloween Havoc. Thanks!
Wrestling Bios Your work is great man you should have way more subs and will eventually get there!
I think it was everything that kicked off between NWO Hollywood and NWO Wolfpac that prevented this matchup from being a big thing. Both tag teams were split between the two (I think Stevie Ray joined Hollywood right cause I know for sure Booker T. was red and black and Obv. Nash was leader of WP while Hall was Hollywood and/or in "Rehab"?). It was so long ago though so I hardly remember anything from then as I was in 7th-8th grade at the time.
I loved them. So entertaining.
I loved them as a kid
I watched them with the tag team championship in the GWF. I was very enthusiastic when they showed up in WCW.
Everybody knows Booker T, but Stevie Ray is a great wrestler, too.👍
They really carried the TT in wcw but man. This is legendary!
One of my favorite tag teams of all time. I was happy to watch them on tv because very few black wrestlers got pushes most were baby face jobbers.
One of my favorite intros ever as a kid.
Harlem heat and the Steiner brothers and the outsiders were my absolute favorite tag teams of all time
Hulk Hogan , We coming for you NUGGA !
Herlem heat is my favorite tag team all time herlem heat is the best in wrestling
I was a huge wrestling fan in the 90's and some of my favorites were Harlem Heat and Ahmed Johnson. Even though I was a kid and even though he was that fat I still cant believe I had no idea Ahmed Johnson was Big T until I discovered RUclips.
Great videos man keep up the good work. These videos remind me of my childhood so much. I used to love watching Nitro
During the Nitro days, Harlem Heat got to face the teams like Steiners, Road Warriors, and Outsiders. And even the super team of Sting and Luger. So going against those legendary teams on PPVs ENHANCED their legacy. Before the Nitro days, WCW's tag division didn't have much in terms of true star power in the tag division. Besides Harlem Heat and the Nastys, most of the teams were makeshift teams. Or they were teams that couldn't really hang on a loaded tag roster. Harlem Heat PROVED they could be a major factor on a great tag roster during the Nitro days.
Harlem Heat looked they belonged with those teams. They weren't overmatched physically. And they had a stud in Booker T who even at that time was among the most exciting in ring guys in that 250-260 pound size range. When they added Sherri, that took them to another level as well. FOR SURE one of the top 10 tag teams of the 90's!
Harlem is very nice lovely area. Friendly and lovely people, safe environment, lots to see and perfect to have an evening stroll by yourself. I went there on vacation last summer
That infomus line is a classic...Glad I came across this channel coz I always wanted to know bout their successful careers as tag team and bros
the entrance music was fire.
I’m considering watching this five times five times five times five times five times.
One of my all time favourite tag teams the theme for them was awesome
I miss a time when tag team belt was a big deal...
It was damn near on the same level as the World title. The U.S. tag team titles were treated with more prestige than the World tag belts are today. Smh
AEW is bringing the tag team division back to glory. That's one of the reasons I'm so excited to watch AEW every week.
@@sub4you282 That match between the Bucks and Private Party could easily be match of the year, so far.
One of the best Tag Teams in WCW
Do a vid on Disco Inferno or Buff Bagwell👍
He already did
One of the best tag teams ever
Best tag team in WCW hands down
So cool, so smooth, nothing but pure heat!💪🏾
that intro song should of been saved for the American Dragon bio
Why he can just use flight of the valkeriyes or some form of it
Cool video again. Thumbs up.
Greatest tag team of all time ✊🏽
A video on Harlem Heat? I can dig THAT SUCKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
I really do hope you get 1 million subscribers pal.
Drew Nelson
Edinburgh Scotland
Hands across the water 🇬🇧