Lane Huffman
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|---|---|
| Stage names | Stevie Ray |
| Height | 6'5" |
| Weight | 292 lbs. |
| Birthdate | August 22 1958 |
| Hometown | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Trained by | Scott Casey |
| Professional Debut | 1989 |
Lane Huffman (born August 22 1958 in Houston, Texas, USA) is an 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 brother Booker Huffman (better known as Booker T). With his brother he held the former World Championship Wrestling World Tag Team Title 10 times.
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Career
Global Wrestling Federation
Lane Huffman started wrestling in 1992 as Super Collider in the Texas independents. 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, New York. 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 Knobs) and got into a crazy 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...er 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.
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.
Solo in WCW
When he returned in May 1998, he harassed Booker about his feud with Chris Benoit and also feuded briefly with Steve McMichael. Booker got injured in July and Stevie started defending his Television Title, which he claimed Booker gave to him. He became a heel and feuded with Chavo Guerrero, Jr., who was carrying around his wooden horse, "Pepe".
Stevie lost Booker's TV Title to Chris Jericho in August and WCW ruled it official. Booker returned and they started to bicker. Stevie turned on him and joined nWo Hollywood and they feuded.
Stevie became the "enforcer" for nWo Hollywood and they feuded with the Four Horsemen.
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's Thunder show. 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 was hilarious and referred to all of the divas as "yaks".
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 World Wrestling Allstars 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.
Previous Managers
Championships/Accomplishments
- 10-Time WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Booker T)
- 1-Time WCW World Television Champion
- 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.
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