Harlem Heat
| Harlem Heat | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members |
Booker T/Kole Stevie Ray/Kane |
| Name(s) | Harlem Heat The Ebony Experience The Ghetto Blasters The Black Bombers The Huffman Brothers Harlem Heat 2000 |
| Heights | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) – Booker T 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) – Stevie Ray |
| Combined weight |
545 lb (247 kg; 38.9 st) |
| Hometown | Houston, Texas |
| Billed from | 110th Street in Harlem, New York |
| Former member(s) |
Big T Midnight Sister Sherri Jacquelyn |
| Debut | 1989 |
| Years active | 1989–2000; 2015 |
| Promotions |
GWF NJPW ROW WCW |
| Trainer |
Scott Casey Ivan Putski |
Harlem Heat was a professional wrestling tag team made up of two real-life brothers, Booker and Lash Huffman (better known as Booker T and Stevie Ray), who won the WCW World Tag Team Championship a record ten times together.
Booker T and Stevie Ray started to team together as The Huffman Brothers in Ivan Putski's Western Wrestling Alliance after a brief feud with each other. Soon after, the WWA ceased operating and the brothers started touring the Texas Independent circuit until they caught the eye of Skandor Akbar who was involved with the Global Wrestling Federation out of Dallas in 1992. The brothers were repackaged as The Ebony Experience and quickly rose through the ranks of the GWF tag team division under the guidance of Gary Hart, defeating Skandor Akbar's "Goodfellows" ("Gorgeous" Gary Young and Steve Dane) for the GWF Tag Team Championship on July 31, 1992. Their first run with the GWF tag title lasted only a week before they were defeated by The Blackbirds (”Iceman” King Parsons and Action Jackson). Booker and Stevie Ray made a comeback and defeated the cheating birds in September.
The second run with the title lasted a bit longer than a week but was ultimately short lived as the Rough Riders (Black Bart and Johnny Mantell) won the gold on October 23. The title loss was forced due to Booker T suffering a knee injury that needed surgery and time off to recover. In early 1993 the Ebony Experience returned to action and started to chase The Bad Breed (Axl and Ian Rotten) who had won the titles while Booker T recovered. On February 26 the Ebony Experience won their third GWF Tag Team championship, becoming the only team to hold that title three times. Their third run with the title proved to be their longest as they held them until May 7 where Guido Falcone and Vito Mussolini (known as The Sicilian Stallions) defeated them for the titles. Not long after this Booker T and Stevie Ray left the GWF to work for World Championship Wrestling.
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