I remember that mess with GI Bro.
they weren't doing nothing with Booker, and then the MIA, Misfits In Action were a low/mid card stable with kats like Lash LeRoux, Major Gunns, Chavo Guerrero, The Wall, Van Hammer, and Hugh Morrus that Booker just popped out of nowhere and was a member.
he rode with those bums for a couple months then suddenly he shed that gimmick and went back to being the athletic Booker that we all knew and won the title.
I've said it for years, I never understood why African American choose professional wrestling as a career when it's going to be guided by someone who doesn't like you because of the color of your skin. Why waste your youth on a sport that doesn't like you?
We see it all the time when a black wrestler makes his come up, their stepping stone tends to bring up shit like eating chicken, dancing, watermelon, a criminal past, hip hop music, pimping, a cracked out family member, "non proper" English, "the hood", shit like that. And their gimmicks are so stereotypical, it's disgusting. At some point in time, they will wear a stereotype on their sleeve if they are introduced as an all-american athlete, whether they know/like it or not. If they reject the gimmick, they are considered an unruly negro, jobbed out, and future endeavored. They will find someone who will take that role, just like in Hollywood Shuffle.
