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Submitted by The Governor on Thursday, August 30, 2001 at 6:18 AM EST
 In all fairness to the WWF creative team, the current feud between Booker T and The Rock is pretty much lackluster. What should have been an explosive epic between the two most energetic wrestlers from their respective promotion has turned into a farce. The Rock, an established WWF superstar has received the majority of the emphases. Since his WWF debut, Booker T has simply established his love for the word, "sucka" and the "Spinaroine". Something needs to be done in order to spark interest in the feud before it is too late. With this is mind, I will toss my hat into the circle and try my hand as a member of the WWF creative team. I initially did not know to establish Booker T as a legitimate threat considering he has been beaten battered and belittled by The Rock countless times since their feud began. With relatively few exceptions, The Rock has always gotten the best of Booker T. I soon realized in order to establish Booker T as a threat, we would have to visit his past. On the opening segment of Raw, Booker T walks to the ring alone, without Shane McMahon. As Jim Ross begins to speculate on the absence of Shane, Paul Heyman removes himself from the announce table and steps into the ring with Booker T and grabs the mic. Heyman cuts to the chase and begins to sing the praises of Booker T and how much he means to The Alliance. A poised and focused Booker T remains in the background, silent. As excepted, The Rock's music hits and Rocky stands upon the stage but before he can get a word out Heyman cuts him off. Heyman begins to rip into the Rock and spouts out some pretty harsh comments that seem a little too real. He brings up the fact The Rock won the IC title on his very first night in the WWF and alludes to the fact that Vince McMahon has groomed him to be a great champion in the WWF. Rocky gets on the mic and proclaims that he is a time 4 WWF tag team champion, 2 time WWF IC champion, 6 time WWF champion to which Heyman has a good laugh. Rock then points out that he is the current WCW champion, which infuriates Heyman. Rock makes his way down to the ring, when out of no where Rhyno lays him out with a gore, which sparks Chris Jericho to the action. Backstage, Regal confirms the main event for Raw to be Rock/Jericho vs Booker T/Rhyno. Later that night during a bizarre backstage segment, Rhyno busts into The Rocks dressing room and the two take the fight out into the hallway. While officials try to break up the fight, Booker T sneaks into The Rocks lockeroom with a gold object in his hand. Before the main event Michael Cole interviews Jericho and The Rock with WCW title in hand. As expected, The Rock takes the WCW title and proceeds to tell Booker T and Rhyno what he's going to do with his title. The Rock takes the title and shines it up, when Jericho reaches over and stops The Rock and points out that the name plate on the WCW title reads, Booker T. The Rock is furious and storms to the ring. The match goes back and forth, just when The Rock sets up for the Rock Bottom, Stevie Ray runs in from the crowd and hits Rock with the Slap Jack. Booker T picks up Rock and delivers the Book End and gets the easy 1-2-3. Raw goes off the air with Booker T standing over The Rock with the WCW title in hand. On SmackDown! Stevie Ray walks down to the ring and proclaims that he will assume the announcing duties of Jim Ross and Michael Cole whenever Booker T has a match. He calls himself "The Peoples Announcer" and assures everyone that he will use a house microphone in order for the entire arena to hear his play by play and not just the people watching on UPN. Booker T makes his way down to the ring and says a few words, when Edge and Christian hit the ring and begin to talk trash about "Harlem Heat". Booker T and Stevie Ray challenge E&C to a match, but instead Christian volunteers Edge to fight Booker T in a one on one match. During the match, Stevie Ray replaces Michael Cole and does play by play with Tazz. Stevie Ray is heard over the arena PA system and busts out the every popular phrase, "Suckas gots to know". Christian steps on the apron and while it looks like he is going to cost Edge yet another match, The Rock runs down and begins to pummel Booker T, giving Edge the victory. The following week on Raw, Booker T along with Shane McMahon make their way down to the ring and Shane announces that he has a special surprise for Booker T. Booker T, still focused and directed is told to look at the entranceway under the TitanTron. Stevie Ray makes his way down to the ring with 5 duffel bags in hand and steps in the ring. Shane takes a duffel bag and reveals that is holds a replica of the WCW United States championship belt, juts like the US title he held in WCW. He opens another bag and finds 6 replicas of the WCW Television title, one for each reign he had in WCW. He empties two more bags and on the floor are 10 WCW tag titles. And lastly he opens the remaining bag and it has 5 WCW championship belts in it. Booker T, Shane and Stevie Ray raise the titles and proclaim that at Unforgiven, Booker T will add one more WCW championship title to his resume. For the remaining days leading up to the PPV, Booker T and Stevie Ray will carry all of the WCW replica titles with them while Stevie Ray will continue to announce all of Booker T's matches. This gives some much needed punch to the Rock/Booker T feud and solidifies in the eyes of WWF fans that Booker T is a legitimate force in the WWF. The Governor MrGovernor00@hotmail.com AIM: NONSanctioned
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