Harlem Heat On Their WWE Hall Of Fame Induction, How They Hope To Be Remembered

Harlem Heat spoke with Nick Schwartz for USA Today about their WWE Hall Of Fame induction; the decorated WCW tag team joins D-Generation X, Honky Tonk Man and Torrie Wilson in this year’s class:

Stevie Ray: I was speechless for a couple of seconds. The last thing I was thinking about was the Hall of Fame.

…. I’m going to be honest with you, I hadn’t really thought about it. You know, I get the fans hitting me all the time with different things about Harlem Heat needs to be in the Hall of Fame, so on and so forth. But you never know, so I never gave it very much thought.

Booker T: It was surprising, actually, I guess because one reason, my brother and I, we never actually wrestled in the WWE. My brother took a step aside at that point in time because he had a daughter, and he wanted to see her grow up and see her go to college. He got a chance to do that. But our career in WCW was awesome.

My brother and I were together for eight and a half years in WCW and together another two years prior in the Global Wrestling Federation. So we had a career as a tag team, and to be recognized as one of the great tag teams of all time…. [there were] a lot of great tag teams that we competed against back in the day, like the Steiners, the Nasty Boys and the Road Warriors, Sting and Lex Luger, Public Enemy – so many guys we got a chance to grapple with back then, and to be recognized, it’s pretty awesome.”

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Stevie Ray on his proudest moment teaming with his brother: 

The best moment was probably back in GWF. That would be being a babyface and bringing joy to people that hadn’t really had heroes to root for, especially African-American heroes in that section of the country – which is smack-dab in the middle of Dallas, Texas – for a long time. I think I got my biggest kick out of that.

Booker T says he hopes fans remember they were a great team and good people:

It would just be keep passing it on more than anything. Young guys right now, the Usos, those two guys came out of my school. Authors of Pain, right now, two guys wrecking shop. You’ve got Street Profits out there representing Harlem Heat. That’s what it’s about. If they look back and say “Harlem Heat was badass,” that’s the only thing that really matters, as well as we were good people.