Booker Tio Huffman, Jr, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler currently signed with WWE. He is also founder/owner of the independent promotion Reality of Wrestling in his hometown of Houston, Texas. He is better known by his ring names Booker T and King Booker. Booker is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, holding 35 championships between those organizations. He is the most decorated wrestler in WCW history, having held 21 titles including a record six WCW World Television Championships, and a record ten WCW World Tag Team Championships as one half of Harlem Heat with his brother, Lash "Stevie Ray" Huffman. Booker headlined many pay-per-view events in WCW, the WWF/E and TNA between 1993 and 2008 and is a six time world champion, having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship five times and a World Heavyweight Championship in WWE. He is the first pure African American to become a world champion in WWE, and was voted the greatest WCW/World Heavyweight Champion of all time in a 2013 WWE viewer poll. 

March 1st, 1965 in Houston (Age 59)