King Booker quits the WWE

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In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reports that Robert Huffman (King Booker) quit WWE when he was told that he was to be suspended for 60 days, as a punishment to the Signature Pharmacy bust. He was believed to have failed a Wellness Program test before, hence the 60 days suspension instead of 30.

While WWE is still trying to negotiate Huffman's staying with them, they're going on under the impression he's done. The two sides had been having troubles recently, with a major setback being John Laurinaitis' call to go with Florida for a developmental territory - where WWE would start from scratch - instead of going with Booker's already established PWA, which WWE had been loaning wrestlers to. After they made the call to stop that, Booker went to his friends at TNA and booked them for his shows instead, which didn't sit so well with anyone backstage, but they couldn't say much having pulled WWE talent from PWA.

Booker is pretty much set financially and has wanted out of wrestling for a while. At age 42, he's accomplished a lot, and thanks to his hip hop store doing well in Houston, and his two wrestling schools up and running, there's really no need for him to stick around.

Well i guess this spells retirement for King Bookah! , Thoughts?

 

[Christian]

Good for Booker. Bad for WWE.

 

[PeepShow]

Tna......?

 

[ROHisWrestling]

^I would laugh if he was actually the "big anouncement" at No Surrender lol. WWE seems to be loosing alot of wrestlers with this wellness thing and its not their fault. Somone needs to tell these guys...DONT TAKE STEROIDS OR DRUGS YOU DUMBASS PIECES OF SHIT!!!!

 

[PeepShow]

^But if they do that, nobody will get pushed >_>

 

[Flair for The Gold]

Good, I say if they weren't going to change his gimmick, then get rid of him (or have him quit). The "king" gimmick sucked, seriously. It was boring, and is so cliche I almost couldn't bear to watch it. Plus, I've never been much of a Booker fan in the first place. He's pretty boring quite honestly.

 

[Christian]

Good, I say if they weren't going to change his gimmick, then get rid of him (or have him quit). The "king" gimmick sucked, seriously. It was boring, and is so cliche I almost couldn't bear to watch it. Plus, I've never been much of a Booker fan in the first place. He's pretty boring quite honestly.

Booker T.. BORING!? The King gimmick yes, boring as hell. But when he was Booker T he was definately one of my favorites.

 

[the dark knight]

i wanted someone to yell at him backstage and tell him: you're a loser now...what happened to the 5 time 5 time 5 time 5 time 5 time WCW champion? then he gets back his gimmick with some improvements and gets a good title run.

sadly, he's one of the few superstars we have right now that has the real ability to "entertain" us. and he can work a good match better than most of the roster.

bottom line:

Good for Booker. Bad for WWE.

 

[FlamesofFury]

Good for Booker, so what if he took steroids, if he was going to quit then why not take them to look better. This is good for Book and we aren't going to see KING BOOKAH ANYMORE THANK GOD.

 

[Soulpower]

Brother Booka P Cage FTW!

Now can you bury that? Idioooooooooots!!!! *Does a wheel-a-roonie*

 

[NinoBrown]

I think it's good for Booker. Can't wrestle for your whole life and you gotta have something to back up your income, wrestling money won't be around forever.

 

[Angryphilip2]

meh, he was a great wrestler.. but was he really that big of a draw in WWE? i think not...

 

[Flair for The Gold]

Booker T.. BORING!? The King gimmick yes, boring as hell. But when he was Booker T he was definately one of my favorites.

Yeah, of course he was better as Booker T, but I never thought he was that good even then. His timing just seemed off in the ring, I can never really explain it. Meh, maybe I'm just crazy...

 

[ROHisWrestling]

^But if they do that, nobody will get pushed >_>

lol true

 

[HHHforever]

If he wasn't going to get rid of that Blue King gimmick then I say let him go. I was so tired of seeing his dumbass pinky finger in the air everytime he came out. Plus he called Jerry and JR, Jerome and James, I mean wtf? Now if he wanted to drop the gimmick then I definitely think he should have stayed, but if not get rid of him. Can you dig it suckaaaa?