Stevie Ray Lash Rushay Huffman , ( August 22 , 1958 ) , is a retired American professional wrestler who is better known by the ring name Stevie Ray . He is best known as being part of the tag team Harlem Heat with his younger brother Booker Huffman ( better known as " Booker T " ) . Along with his brother , he held the WCW World Tag Team Championship ten times . Professional wrestling career . Early career ( 1989 - 1993 ) . Lash Huffman started wrestling in 1989 as Super Collider on the independent circuit in Texas . In Ivan Putski ' s Western Wrestling Alliance , he first started feuding with his brother , Booker ( who was G . I . Bro at the time ) under the ring name Jive Soul Bro . He began teaming with his brother as Stevie Ray ( named after Stevie Ray Vaughan ) in a tag team called The Ebony Experience 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 GWF Tag Team Championship three times . Stevie Ray then went on to win the GWF North American Heavyweight Championship in 1993 . World Championship Wrestling ( 1993 - 2001 ) . Harlem Heat ( 1993 - 1997 ) In August 1993 , they went to World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and changed their team name to Harlem Heat . Initially Lash was known as Kane while Booker became Kole . They were then billed from Harlem . 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 , with Vader and Sid Vicious against Sting , Davey Boy Smith , Dustin Rhodes and The Shockmaster . They lost the match when Shockmaster forced Booker ( Kole ) to submit . 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 World Tag Team Championship for the first time . From there , they feuded with The Nasty Boys ( Jerry Sags and Brian Knobs ) and got into a feud with Col . Parker ' s " Stud Stable " of Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck where Parker and Sherri were carrying on a love affair . During this time , Stevie and Booker lost the titles to the Nasty Boys , regained them , then lost them to Slater and Buck and regained them again . They eventually gained Parker as a manager as he abandoned Slater and Buck to be with Sherri . Harlem Heat won the WCW World Tag Team Championship three times in 1995 , trading the titles with the American Males ( Bagwell and Scotty Riggs ) in the early fall . They had brief feuds with Lex Luger and Sting , trading the titles back and forth in early 1996 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 , when Nash used Parker ' s cane to attack Stevie . They would then fire the Colonel , beat him up , turn face , and enter into a brief feud against Parker ' s newest team The Amazing French Canadians , a feud they would win . In 1997 they feuded with Public Enemy ( Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock ) , The Steiners and the New World Order . In the summer of 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 and The Barbarian ) . Singles appearances ; New World Order ( 1998 - 1999 ) As 1998 started to roll around , Stevie had to take some time off from WCW from January to June . Meanwhile , Booker T would go on to win WCW World Television Championship . Through the association with his brother , he would gain his only singles title in WCW , as when Booker took time off with an injury as Television Champion from July to October , Stevie got a " power of attorney " to defend the belt for Booker . He then engaged in a short feud with Chavo Guerrero , Jr . over the right to defend the belt before dropping it to Chris Jericho afterwards . By June 1998 , Stevie Ray had returned to the ring , and the powerful gang - like faction of the nWo had been split into two : Hollywood Hogan ' s nWo Hollywood and Kevin Nash ' s nWo Wolfpac . Stevie Ray would be offered a spot in nWo Hollywood , but was hesitant at first . He would join the " black & white " in August , effectively turning him heel . Although this would make Stevie Ray known for using dirty tactics and a strength - in - numbers mentality , his brother , Booker , showed little resentment and respected Stevie Ray ' s decision to be a part of the nWo , and they were able to peacefully co - exist . Meanwhile , Booker was steadily gaining popularity as a face , climbing the ranks of the WCW roster and winning championship titles . During his tenure with the nWo , Stevie Ray would tag team with the likes of Horace Hogan and Scott Norton as well as performing in singles competition , often with Vincent at ringside . Alongside Hollywood Hogan and Bret Hart , he also participated in the War Games of Fall Brawl ' 98 . The slapjack became known as Stevie Ray ' s trademark weapon which he would frequently use to knock an opponent unconscious , typically when the referee was distracted . By early 1999 , both nWo factions had fused back together , but members of nWo Hollywood started bickering over who the leader of the sub - faction was . Hollywood Hogan began telling various members in private that he had granted them official leadership , causing confusion and friction between members . Not long after , Stevie Ray won the leadership role in a 4 - man battle royal on the April 5 , 1999 episode of WCW Monday Nitro , defeating Horace Hogan , Brian Adams , and Vincent . Harlem Heat reformation ( 1999 ) As tension grew between members of nWo Hollywood , Stevie Ray started helping Booker T during his matches . As Booker was getting ganged up on in July , the two reunited Harlem Heat . They began feuding with Barry and Kendall Windham as well as The Jersey Triad of Diamond Dallas Page , Chris Kanyon and Bam Bam Bigelow . They went on to win the Tag Titles three more times , making them 10 time champions . Feud with Booker T ( 1999 - 2000 ) By late 1999 , a female bodybuilder named Midnight had joined Harlem Heat . Stevie resented her help and started disputing with Booker over her . He eventually challenged Midnight in a match that would decide whether or not she would stay with Harlem Heat . After being defeated with a surprise small package , Stevie Ray would turn on both Booker and Midnight to form 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 SuperBrawl X . Color commentator ( 2000 ) 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 from in - ring competition to become a color commentator for WCW Thunder . As a commentator , Stevie referred to all of the women as " yaks " and coined his catchphrase " Suckas gots to know ! " He also provided in - depth analysis from a wrestler ' s point of view during matches and constantly criticized wrestlers for mistakes made in the ring . For example , he would often say that a wrestler " should have went for the cover ! " or " needed to hook the leg ! " and this advice earned him the nickname , " Straightshootin ' " Stevie Ray . Stevie came back for one more WCW match ( a title vs . career match ) for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Scott Steiner on the November 27 , 2000 edition of WCW Monday Nitro , which he lost . World Wrestling All - Stars ( 2002 ) . Stevie Ray wrestled a few matches for WWA against Ernest Miller in 2002 , retiring later that year . Retirement . In 2005 , Stevie Ray and Booker T opened the " Booker T and Stevie Ray Pro Wrestling Academy " in Houston , Texas . In April 2013 , Stevie Ray inducted Booker T into the WWE Hall of Fame .