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  • WWE Hall Of Famer Teases They Have One Match Left In Them

    One WWE Hall Of Famer has teased that they have one last match left in them.

    Stevie Ray, one-half of the WWE Hall Of Fame tag team Harlem Heat, took to Twitter recently to share a video of himself working out at the gym. He captioned the video by suggesting he may have one last match left in him.

    \”I think I have one last match in me\”

    Ray is a longtime veteran of the professional wrestling industry. After getting his start in the business back in 1989, Ray and his brother, Booker T, joined WCW as Harlem heat in 1993.

    Together, he and his brother racked up 10 WCW World Tag Team Championship runs. As a singles competitor, Ray captured the WCW World TV Championship. Ray then became a color commentator for WCW Thunder before the promotion went under in 2001.

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    WCW was bought by WWE, but Ray was not one of the talents who joined WWE. He worked sporadically over the next several years, with his last match taking place in 2017 for Booker T\’s Reality Of Wrestling.

    Ray and Booker T were inducted into the Hall Of Fame in 2019. Should Ray return to the ring, it will be his first match in over five years.

  • Stevie Ray Responds To Critics Over Harlem Heat\’s Hall Of Fame Induction

    WWE Hall of Famer Stevie Ray has responded to critics who don\’t believe he should have been inducted. Ray was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during last year\’s ceremony. He was included as a part of the WCW tag team Harlem Heat alongside his brother, Booker T.

    \”Yeah, man! It is cool. But, you know, people were always bothering me about the Hall of Fame and I never really had thought about it,\” Stevie Ray told Wrestling Epicenter. \”I always thought that the Hall of Fame meant that you left a mark in wrestling and people would always remember it and I never thought… You know, it was in the back of my mind. But it is cool that it happened and hey, Harlem Heat is in the Hall of Fame!\”

    Stevie Ray stressed how \”I could give two sh*ts what people say\” regarding his inclusion. He stressed how they were put into the Hall of Fame as a record-breaking tag team. Not only that but for being a tag team that brought tag team wrestling back into popularity and actually got ratings at a time when teams didn\’t really draw. 

    Stevie Ray Denied Harlem Heat Rumors

    There had been rumors that a match could take place between The Revival and Harlem Heat. Despite the speculation, however, there has been no firm indication that the match will take place.

    On a recent episode of WWE Backstage, Booker T highlighted how Harlem Heat wasn\’t finished with the Revival. Stevie Ray, however, denied this. He stated, \”I\’m done with the Revival. I never had anything to do with the f***ing Revival. So, whatever sh*t he said, I don\’t got nothing to do with it.\”

    H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.

  • WWE Files To Trademark \”Harlem Heat\”

    WWE has filed to trademark the name \”Harlem Heat\” for wrestling purposes recently. According to documents publicly available through the US Patents and Trademark Office, WWE filed to trademark the term on January 13th, 2020.

    The popular WCW tag team was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame last year. They are former 10x WCW tag team champions. Harlem Heat was named the Tag Team Of The Year in 1995 and 1996 by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. They were also honored with the Tag Team Award by the Cauliflower Ear Club in 2018.

    Booker T On Harlem Heat

    “My brother and I, we paved the way for so many other young African-American wrestlers that watched us and said ‘man if Booker T and Stevie Ray can do it, we can do it too’,” Booker said on ESPN radio after Harlem Heat\’s WWE Hall of Fame induction was announced.

    “We talk about how there’s not that many black wrestlers in this business, it’s because they didn’t get a chance to see a whole lot of them in there actually doing it. That’s why my brother and I — us getting that nod — of course, yeah, we deserve it because we paved the way, not just for so many black wrestlers like Street Profits, but so many young white kids as well. We represented for everyone!”

    The purposes listed for the trademark include: \”Clothing, namely, tops, shirts, jackets, sweatshirts, hoodies; outerwear, namely, coats; bottoms, pants, shorts, underwear, dresses, pajamas, lingerie, clothing ties, scarves, gloves, swimwear; Halloween and masquerade costumes; footwear, namely, shoes, sneakers, slippers, flip flops, boots; headwear, namely, hats, caps; wrist bands; bandanas.\”