Booker T
American professional wrestler
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| 2025 | Featured in WWE 2K25 video game, maintaining his ongoing presence in wrestling video game franchises |
| 2024 | Booker T included in WWE 2K24 video game |
| 2024 | Anticipated release of the video game WWE 2K24. |
| June 2024 | Booker T and Brad Gilmore announced their radio show The Hall of Fame signed a deal with Disney and ESPN to broadcast nationally on ESPN Radio. |
| 2023 | Booker T appeared on an episode of Pawn Stars, authenticating a pair of his own boots that he had previously donated to a charity auction for Hurricane Harvey victims. |
| 2023 | Inclusion of King Booker and Booker T in the video game WWE 2K23. |
| 2023 | Booker T was again recognized as the Worst Television Announcer by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. |
| January 28 2023 | Booker T returned to the ring as a surprise entrant in the 2023 Royal Rumble but was eliminated by Gunther in 42 seconds. He later announced his retirement from wrestling on his podcast. |
| 2022 | Inclusion of King Booker and Booker T in the video game WWE 2K22. |
| October 6 2022 | WWE announced a reshuffling of their commentary and interview teams, with Booker T joining the NXT commentary team alongside Vic Joseph. |
| May 9 2022 | Booker T was the subject of an episode of Biography: WWE Legends. |
| September 19 2021 | WWE Legends: Link & Win, a game for mobile and desktop browsers featuring Booker T as one of the main characters, was released by All41 Studios and Microgaming. |
| 2020 | Release of the video game WWE 2K Battlegrounds. |
| February 2020 | Booker T returned to wrestle for Reality of Wrestling in an eight-man tag team match. |
| 2019 | Motion capture for the video game WWE 2K20. |
| 2019 | Booker T and his co-host Brad Gilmore joined the Houston ESPN affiliate, ESPN 97.5 KFNC, for their weekly show 'The Hall of Fame with Booker T and Brad Gilmore'. |
| September 2019 | Booker T was not among the 12 candidates who applied for the ballot in the Houston mayoral election. |
| April 6 2019 | Booker T and his brother Lash were inducted together into the WWE Hall of Fame as Harlem Heat, making Booker a two-time Hall of Famer. |
| February 2019 | Booker T sued video game company Activision over the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 character David 'Prophet' Wilkes. |
| 2018 | Inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and received the Cauliflower Alley Club Tag Team Award with his brother Stevie Ray. |
| 2018 | Booker T was inducted into the Cauliflower Alley Club, receiving the Tag Team Award alongside his partner Stevie Ray. |
| 2018 | Booker T was inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018. |
| 2018 | Motion capture for the video game WWE 2K19. |
| August 28 2018 | Booker T made a surprise appearance as 'King Booker' during the opening segment of SmackDown Live, celebrating The New Day's fifth tag team championship win. |
| January 29 2018 | Booker T was replaced on commentary by the returning Jonathan Coachman during the January 29 episode of Raw. |
| 2017 | Motion capture for the video game WWE 2K18. |
| 2017 | After the WWE Superstar Shake-up, Booker T took over as color commentator on Raw, replacing David Otunga. |
| 2017 | Release of the video game WWE Champions. |
| 2017 | Booker T was named the Worst Television Announcer by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. |
| 2016 | Motion capture for the video game WWE 2K17 (Next-gen & PC). |
| 2016 | Huffman stated that his focus for the three years leading up to the 2019 election would be on the city's homeless, underprivileged, and low income areas. |
| December 2016 | Following the departure of Jerry Lawler and Lita from the pre-show team, WWE ended their Raw and SmackDown pre-shows, leaving Booker T to work solely on WWE pay-per-view pre-shows and other WWE Network specials. |
| December 10 2016 | Booker T announced his candidacy for the 2019 Houston mayoral election, expressing his vision for a new era in the city of Houston. |
| August 6 2016 | Booker T replaced Tommy Dreamer in an intergender tag team match for Dreamer's House of Hardcore promotion. |
| 2015 | Release of the video game WWE 2K. |
| 2015 | Booker T started a show on KILT (AM) also available as a podcast called 'Heated Conversations – with Booker T'. |
| 2015 | Motion capture for the video game WWE 2K16 (Next-gen & PC). |
| 2015 | Release of the video game WWE Immortals. |
| March 30 2015 | During the March 30 episode of Raw, Booker T and his fellow commentators JBL and Michael Cole were injured by Brock Lesnar after Seth Rollins denied Lesnar his WWE World Heavyweight Championship rematch. |
| March 14 2015 | The ROW Tag Team Championship titles won by Booker T and Stevie Ray were vacated. |
| March 10 2015 | Booker T released his second autobiography, Booker T: Wrestling Royalty, with Medallion Press. |
| February 21 2015 | Booker T and Stevie Ray reunited as Harlem Heat for one last match in Reality of Wrestling, defeating the Heavenly Bodies to win the ROW Tag Team Championship during the promotion's 'The Final Heat' event. |
| January 2015 | Booker T replaced Jerry Lawler as a commentator on the premiere of Raw due to Lawler's health issues. He later secured a full-time position commenting on Raw. |
| 2014 | Release of the video game WWE SuperCard. |
| 2014 | Motion capture for the video game WWE 2K15 (Next-gen & PC). |
| 2013 | Won a viewer poll voted as WWE's greatest World Heavyweight Champion. |
| 2013 | Booker T lost the position of SmackDown General Manager to Vickie Guerrero, following Vince McMahon's orders. |
| 2013 | In a viewer poll, Booker T was voted WWE's greatest World Heavyweight Champion. |
| July 19 2013 | Booker T returned to continue as SmackDown General Manager after recovering from surgery. |
| June 12 2013 | Booker T underwent surgery for a torn distal triceps. |
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