Lane Huffman
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Lane Huffman (born August 22 1958 in Houston, Texas) is a retired American professional wrestler who is better known as Stevie Ray. He is best known as being part of the tag team Harlem Heat with his younger brother Booker Huffman (better known as Booker T). With his brother, he held the former WCW World Tag Team Title 10 times.
Career
Global Wrestling Federation
Lane Huffman started wrestling in 1992 as Super Collider in the independent circuit in Texas. He soon was teaming with his brother, Booker T as Stevie Ray, The Ebony Experience. They worked for the Global Wrestling Federation, which was on ESPN. They were faces and feuded with the "Blackbirds" of Iceman Parsons and Brickhouse Brown. They won the Tag Team Titles twice. Huffman then went on to win the GWF North American Title in 1993.Early WCW
In August 1993, they went to WCW and changed their team name to Harlem Heat and he became Kane while Booker became Kole. They were then billed from Harlem. They became heels and were on Harley Race and Col. Rob Parker's team in the War Games at Fall Brawl on September 19, 1993, against Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes and The Shockmaster. They lost the match but were over as heels because of the caliber of faces they wrestled.In 1994, they got Sister Sherri as their manager and changed their names back to Booker T and Stevie Ray. They feuded with "Stars N Stripes" (The Patriot and Marcus Bagwell) and won the WCW Tag Team Titles for the first time.
From there, they feuded with The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags & Brian Knobbs) and got into a feud with Col. Parker's "Stud Stable" of Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck where Parker and Sherri were carrying on a love affair. Parker eventually left the Stud Stable in favor of the Heat to be with Sherri.
They had brief feuds with Lex Luger & Sting and The Road Warriors before starting a long feud with Rick and Scott Steiner in 1996. In October, they lost their titles to "The Outsiders", Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, and they fired Col. Parker and beat him up and became full-fledged faces. They would then enter into a brief feud against Parker's newest team The Amazing French Canadians, a feud they would win.
In 1997 they feuded with "Public Enemy" (Johnny Grunge & Rocco Rock), The Steiners and the nWo. In fall 1997, they fired Sherri and added a new manager, Jacqueline. They were briefly put out of action by the nWo and returned to feud with the "Faces of Fear" (Meng & The Barbarian). Stevie then took five months off from WCW. Meanwhile, Booker T. would go on to win WCW World Television Championship.
Harlem Heat reborn
In early 1999, the nWo started bickering over who the leader of the Hollywood faction was. Stevie won the leadership role in a battle royal on WCW Thunder. He started to help Booker T during his matches and when he was getting ganged up on and rejoined him as Harlem Heat in July. They feuded with Barry and Kendall Windham and The Jersey Triad of Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Kanyon and Bam Bam Bigelow. They won the Tag Titles three more times to give them 10 in their career.By late 1999 Midnight had joined them but Stevie did not want her there. He started bickering with Booker about her and he turned on him again and formed Harlem Heat, Inc. with Big T, Kash and J. Biggs. They won the rights to the Harlem Heat name in a match with Big T against Booker on February 20, 2000 at Super Brawl.
In May, Stevie split from Big T, Kash and Biggs (who all left WCW) and helped Booker T out of a jam. He then retired to become a Commentator for WCW Monday Nitro.
As a commentator, Stevie referred to all of the Divas as "yaks" and coined his catchphrase "Suckas gots to know!"
Stevie came back for one more WCW match (a retirement match) against Scott Steiner in late 2000 and lost it. He wrestled a few matches for WWA against Ernest Miller in 2002 and then retired to run a garage.
In March 2005, Lane and Booker Huffman opened the Booker T & Stevie Ray Pro Wrestling Academy in Houston.
In wrestling
Previous managers
Finisher
- *110th Street Slam (Slapjack spinebuster)
- *Slapjack (Double underhook facebuster)
Championships and accomplishments
- World Championship Wrestling
- 10-Time WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Booker T)
- 1-Time WCW World Television Champion
- Global Wrestling Federation
- 2-Time GWF Tag Team Champion (with Booker T)
- 1-Time GWF North American Heavyweight Champion
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 248 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003. He was also ranked # 62 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Booker T.
- He won the PWI Tag Team of the Year Award with Booker T in 1995 and 1996.
External links
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