The following is the complete results for monday night raw in 2002. In its aftermath, booker remained a heel, and he joined forces with vince mcmahon and the boss man in december to feud with steve austin. Molly holly defeated womens champion, trish stratus, in a nontitle match. Booker t starts to get pissed a bit, and then speaks to the register person. It wasn t the first period of my life where i didn t watch the product week in or week out but it was certainly the first time i didn t even. January 7, 2002 rob van dam defeated test billy gunn and chuck palumbo defeated scotty 2 hotty and albert wwf intercontinental champion, edge, pinned lance storm steve austin and the rock defeated booker t. The artists formerly known as goldust became known as chynadust, dust lovedust, dustydust, hunterdust, flashdust, marilyn mansondust, sabledust and vaderdust. Every show is complete with all the wild storylines. While teaming with booker t goldust did his fair share of it. Scene booker t and goldust then head down to burger king near by, they order some food, and while getting there food, booker t looks at the burger king cup, and sees the rock s face on there. Booker huffman was born on march 1, 1965 in houston, texas, usa as robert booker tio huffman. Hhhflair vs bookdust should end with goldust or booker preferably booker pinning flair or hhh or flair pinning goldust. Finally, at the end of 2002, booker t and goldust dustin rhodes would win a tag team elimination match at armageddon to win the wwe tag team championships, defeating christianchris jericho. Brock lesnar defeated jeff hardy rob van dam defeated curt hennig goldust and booker t.
Booker t returns to smackdown to recap his tremendous 2011. Dustin patrick runnels april 11, 1969 is an american professional wrestler. European champion, william regal, defeated hardcore champion, bradshaw. Runnels is best known for performing as goldust in wwe and is also known for performing in various companies such as world championship wrestling and total nonstop action wrestling as dustin rhodes. In 2002, as a tag partner with goldust, he launched one of the most outrageously funny tandems in wwe history.
He has been married to sharmell sullivanhuffman since february 5, 2005. Booker t, or his latest alias before his last run in the wwe, king booker, is a veteran superstar who made his debut in the business during the invasion. You might have heard about this rocky past in the wwe network documentary. Heart of america sports attractions, a promotion in kansas, but that booker t wasn t much like this one beyond name and a notquiteafro, if you want to stretch it. Booker t at wwe summerslam 2001 lived up to the premise of the invasion storyline in one of the best matches in the events history. He is well known for his multiple tenures with wwe from 1995 to 2019 as the enigmatic, flamboyant, sexually ambiguous character.
The two also won the tag team titles together in 2002. When codys brother dustin who made an incredible name for himself as goldust emerges in defense of booker the intercontinental champion belittles him as well. He currently works with the wwe under the ring name goldust where he is onehalf of the wwe tag team champions with his halfbrother cody rhodes. He was considered one of the wcw pioneers leading the parade against the wwe, in a long drawnout feud to decide which entity was considered superior. Nothing besides rock, booker, and the slim hopes that molly will make it on raw keeps me watching anymore. I personally as a guy who watched both always liked booker and goldust because of all the. A few times already, ive talked about i fell out of love with wrestling for a handful of years from 2001 to 2005. Goldust and booker played with a lightsaber, collided in a 7eleven and imitated the rock in hilarious fashion. Goldust is the son of the late american dream dusty rhodes and the halfbrother of former wwe superstar cody rhodes wrote an autobiography in 2010 titled cross rhodes. Booker t and rtruth teasing goldust about not wearing his. Dustin patrick runnels born april 11, 1969 is an american professional wrestler better known by the name goldust. Goldust simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Undertaker, the rock, booker t, goldust vs hhh, the unamericans raw, 12 august 2002 part 2. He is an actor and director, known for wcw monday nitro 1995, ready to rumble 2000 and wwe smackdown. Booker realizes that it was not really xpac, but a vender xpaclookalike interview. Triple h, test, and wwe world tag champions lance storm and christian downed wwe world champion the rock, booker t, goldust, and the undertaker. The same goes for goldusts ability to make folks uncomfortable with his overly sensual nature. At the survivor series, booker t was eliminated third by the rock after a rollup and eventually the alliance was defeated, causing them to disband. Other times as popular movie characters, such as darth vader. Booker t and goldust were a former professional wrestling tag team that wrestled in the world wrestling federation from 20022003. Intercontinental champion, rob van dam, defeated eddie guerrero in a kor. He couldve became one of wwfes biggest draws if pushed at the right time instead of mutilated the artist formerly known as goldust or having dustin runnels wrestle on and off as his normal self. In february 2003, he eliminated the rock to win a battle royal for the number one contendership, granting him a title shot at wrestlemania xix. Booker t says that the nwo will take one of them out later goldust says that he has a plan, as usual booker sends goldust off down the hall booker sees xpac backing through a door and attacks him. As a team, they held the wwf tag team championship one time.
Booker and goldust defeated william regal and chris nowinski august 12, 2002 raw. And in 2006 as king booker, he delivered whats widely considered the best faux british accent since kevin costner s turn as the prince of thieves in robin hood. His partnership with booker t added a lot of great comedic segments on wwe programming. He is also the owner and founder of the independent promotion reality of wrestling row in his hometown of houston, texas. World tag team titles wwe wwe monday night raw aug 19th 2002. By 2003, however, booker t s popularity had soared and he amicably separated from goldust, at goldusts request, in order to pursue the world heavyweight championship.
Find out what booker t and the game are doing to prepare for their clash during this mondays episode of raw. Bubba douglas was the first booker t when he was in csw. Wweteca stone cold, kurt angle, booker t, rob van dam. To that end, booker t opened up about his difficult past, from his being orphaned at age 12, to serving prison time for armed robbery, to feuding over the letter t with ahmed johnson.