King Booker Quits WWE

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.

He has a hip-hop store?

And good to see him leave semi on top. He's had a great and colourful career already.

To bad he did not leave as Booker T instead of King Booker maybe he will make guest appearance at TNA.

This kinda sucks i was hoping they would bring him out of the whole "King" thing and back to Booker T.

he took the king thing like whoooh

i don't really care if booker t leaves.i didn't like him anyway.that means no more sharmalle.

cenaluva wrote:

i don't really care if booker t leaves.i didn't like him anyway.that means no more sharmalle.

Booker T was a great talent you feed into storylines to much.

no im not.i just didn't like him.

well he's a great wrestler, is good that he doesn't depend on the WWE and can quit without having any financial risk. It sucks that he doesn't want to wrestler no more though, it would have been cool to see him appear on TNA.

Booker has to much star power to appear on TNA.

I myself think booker is done with wrestling, he's accomplished a lot in his career. He stated he wouldnt wrestle past 40 and now hes what 43 ? plus he's loaded with money from his wrestling schools and his Hip hop store.. lol.

well i gues since he is quitting this way he won't have any farewell matches or anything like that, is he?

I dont really care much for him.... he kinda got on my nerves... with his entrance taking 2 hours... my god... ;)lol and that sharmelle screaming during his matches all of the time...

RKOFAN wrote:

I dont really care much for him.... he kinda got on my nerves... with his entrance taking 2 hours... my god... ;)lol and that sharmelle screaming during his matches all of the time...

Yeah that got VERY annoying, i liked him a lot better when he was just "Booker T"