Stevie Ray

[6.0] "Bordering on underrated. No one is going to seek out a Best of Stevie Ray singles matches, but he was perfect in a tag team. His brother was the obvious star of the two, but I feel that Stevie more than held his own. His promos weren't poetry, but they were perfect for his character. He was a big mean dude that was barely coherent and would smash you. He fit well in that WCW era where guys where allowed to spend their whole entrance trash talking the camera."

[2.0] "Well, Harlem Heat is a hall of fame worthy team but by himself Stevie Ray didn't have it. He was big but he was horrible on promos and was never in a singles match worth watching. He's also part of the nadir of the NWO in the later days of WCW. He's bad."

[3.0] "Stevie Ray was the clear lesser half of the Harlem Heat tag team. His ring skills were atrocious, and his mic work and charisma were also inferior to that of his brother Booker T. The main thing that stood out about him was his look, but outside of that he was your typical wrestling big man with a very basic moveset."

[3.0] "Ray is a WWE Hall of Famer and part of one the greatest tag teams of all time. But, with that said, he is still not that respected for someone with this resume, and it's easy to see why. It is often said that Ray dragged down Booker T, not being able to keep up with his brother and often being clumsy in how he performed. As a solo competitor, he was not much better. But, he did give me a lot of funny memories as a wrestler and commentator, albeit most being unintentional. For that, I will never really dislike Stevie Ray."

[4.0] "Worked fine with his Brother Booker T as part of Harlem Heat, possibly the best tag team of WCW in the mid 90's. But once they split up and he started going singles and even joined the nWo and later became leader of the B team? He needed Booker to carry him because he wasn't made for carrying matches."

[3.0] "The insomniacs favourite wrestler. Credit where credit is due, Harlem Heat looked cool as hell even if there was only a small period when they were any good and that was thanks to Booker T"

[6.0] "Good tag team wrestler when in Harlem Heat. He had good charisma and worked well with a partner who could cover a few of his flaws. His matches singles were not that great, but he was not the worse wrestler in WCW at the time either."

[3.0] "Stevie Ray was a pretty bad worker. He had great size and would have been a giant in today's world but he had no charisma and couldn't work a match. He was passable for a time as the power guy in tag wrestling and had a decent diss promo in him now and again but that's about as much as you'd get out of him."

[7.0] "Big Stevie was always a good promo/ trash talker. I loved him as a commentator in the dying days of WCW for that reason. A great tag team wrestler as a part of Harlem Heat. He was all business when he got in the ring. However, I think him being more serious is what hurt him too , and why he never broke out any further than being a tag team guy."

[4.0] "Stevie has always been an exceptionally team player, being a decent powerhouse in alliance with his brother. But his solo career did not work out, he was not particularly good both as a single performer and as a speaker. 4 points for his success in tag team division."

[5.0] "Absolutely LOVE Harlem Heat. buuut he could sometimes be a slug/sloth/chore if it just wasn't his night. Without Booker T he couldn't hang whatsoever, his nwo stuff was completely terrihorrible. His commentary is a guilty pleasure."

[4.0] "As a singles competitor, he couldn't do much. But he had a long, solid run as a tag team competitor. Was it due to his brother? Mostly. But he had some good performances mixed in there."

[2.0] "Compared to his brother he's a 0 but in actuality I think 2 is the perfect score for him. He once had a good match with Virgil which almost nobody can say"

[6.0] "Almost the definition of a tag team specialist, but he was still the lesser of the two when he teamed up with Booker T in the Harlem Heat, and it was obvious. Far less impressive in singles matches."

[7.0] "I was certainly team WWE over team WCW, but during the mid 90s, Harlem Heat was my favorite team in the biz. Intense & intimidating -- they were to the 90s what the Road Warriors were to the 80s. Stevie didn't have the longevity that Booker had, but he was a solid team member & helped Booker find his footing."

[4.0] "Stevie Ray had his greatest success alongside his brother Booker T as half of Harlem Heat, a truly awesome tag team that claimed a whopping 10 reigns as WCW World Tag Team Champions. In that team Stevie provided the power base while Booker handled the more flashy offense. After that team split, Booker rocketed to stardom while Stevie had a bit more of a tough go of it; his ring style worked in a tag setting but didn't translate well to singles action. An attempt to "reboot" Harlem Heat with Big T (the former Ahmed Johnson) to feud with Booker failed, and he struggled to catch on as a single, ultimately landing a role as a second-stringer with the by-this-point overinflated NWO. He spent the last part of his WCW career as a color commentator on Thunder; once the company folded he toured Europe and Australia for a bit before hanging it up in 2002."

[2.0] "Stevie Ray was lucky to be the brother of Booker T, because without that connection, he never would have stayed in WCW. Ray was dire in the ring, and he was awful, absolutely awful on commentary."

[7.0] "I fondly remember him mostly for being a member of Harlem Heat with his brother, Booker T. Even during that era he never had the charisma or entertainment value of his brother."

[7.0] "Definitely the power of Harlem Heat. Not quite as athletic as his brother (nor was he as successful as a singles competitor) but the two of them were one of the best tag teams in WCW history and all of wrestling history."

[7.0] "Probably not the best wrestler in the world, but he had decent charisma, plus the greatest catchphrase in Wrestling history "suckas gots to know. ""