Booker T was always a pretty cool guy to watch. A fireball of energy and charisma (with a background in breakdancing, no less), Booker T was one of the most memorable World Champions of his era. Sadly, WCW sort of used him as their version of The Rock at the end of the companys run, which only heightened the WCW is to WWF what Go-Bots was to Transformers dynamic. Still, he was a genuinely excellent wrestler and the eventual Booker T vs. The Rock match made for thrilling TV (Rock won, obviously). Having said all that, Booker T was kind of a weird guy. Lanky and slightly uncoordinated, the guy seemed to be a little out of touch with reality and, um, obsessed with his hand. Because he was a five time WCW Champion, he would gaze lovingly at all five fingers of his hand and shake his head about as if he was in a powerful voodoo trance of some description. I suppose it was meant to look scary, instead, it appeared as if WWF creative had given him the gimmick of a compulsive masturbator. Dropping down to one knee (which didnt help matters at all, it must be said), Booker would then launch into an awesome breakdancing move, before delivering a mighty scissors kick to the head of his opponent. The problem was that Booker would often celebrate with a spin-a-roonie, as he called it, before his opponent was dispatched, which basically meant that he lost more than a few matches due to his proclivity for dancing instead of fighting (and you thought Fandango was a dumbass). The second problem was that he called this manoeuvre a spin-a-roonie, which is a f*cking stupid name for a wrestling move.
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