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Talk Is Jericho

WWE Hall of Famer Stevie Ray Brings The Heat

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stevie Ray is a WWE Hall of Famer, and he’s talking about what it was like to be inducted earlier this month alongside his brother, Booker T, as one half of the Harlem Heat tag team! Stevie’s telling stories from their early days at Global, making the move to WCW, working with everyone from the Steiners to the Nasty Boys to Nash & Hall to Sting & Macho Man and Eddie Guerrero too! Stevie Ray explains why he didn’t go to WWE after Vince McMahon bought WCW, and what he thinks caused WCW’s demise. He’s got a great story about Chavo Sr, and the one time that Ted Turner and Jane Fonda showed up at Center Stage in Atlanta.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to talk is Jericho. It's the pile of thunder and rock and roll. And congratulations

0:17.6

to today's guest, Stevie Ray, one half of the Harlem Heat Tag team with his brother,

0:21.6

Booker T, talk is Jericho alumni. They were just inducted into the 2019 WWE Hall of Fame.

0:28.0

Stevie Ray is going to break down the Hall of Fame story for us and share with that day was really

0:31.7

like Pan the scenes. He's also telling the story of the Harlem Heat, how he and Booker T

0:35.9

scarred it in the business, wouldn't inspire the Harlem Heat gimmick, would brought them

0:39.4

to WCW and what it was like to work with Steiner's nasty boys, Hall and Nash, public enemy,

0:44.2

so many of the grades from the 90s. Steve Ray's also explaining why he didn't go to WWE

0:48.8

after Vince bought WCW and what he thinks caused the WCW's downfall. So Stevie Ray, one

0:54.3

half of the legendary and now Hall of Fame tag team, Harlem Heat, coming up.

0:59.2

All right, so talking to Stevie Ray, who is now one of the newest members of the WWE Hall of Fame.

1:11.3

So do I have to call you sir now or something like that? How does it work?

1:14.5

I think you've never called me sir, don't you?

1:17.6

No, that's exciting stuff though man, I mean was it a surprise to you? How did you find

1:24.2

out?

1:25.2

Well you know they gave me a call one day when I thought it was actually calling to tell

1:28.8

me that my they wasn't going to renew my legend still. So I was kind of like, you know,

1:34.4

the last few checks, you know, this last year the check they've been working crap anyway.

1:38.8

So I was like, okay, you know, let me get ready to tell him, I'm sorry man.

1:44.8

I was like, what the hell, what you know, and a walker, I know, then he was like, man, are

1:52.0

you okay? I think yeah, I'm okay. Why? And he was like, what do you say? I'm kind of,

1:57.5

I don't know, but I've done something like that. No, I'm good, but the way you want. And

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