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Booker T...World Heavyweight Champion...again. Just saying that gives me chills in my spine. If I were to tell you that Booker T would finally claim the World Heavyweight Championship in the WWE, you would think I was on drugs. In critics' views, chances of Booker T winning the World Heavyweight Championship was as great as getting in the ring with Great Khali without being injured.

But these are the same naysayers that believed that Chris Benoit and Rey Mysterio would never be a World Champion and look what happened: Benoit main-event at the twentieth WrestleMania, won the title from Triple H and held it for nearly five months while Mysterio won the same coveted belt at this year's WrestleMania and became the smallest World Champion in the history of professional wrestling. Circumstances over how they won these titles are irrelevant: they climbed to the top of the mountain, earned their title shots and won, shutting up all the bitter Internet marks who do nothing but whine and complain. It's safe to say that Booker T, too, climbed to the top of the peak and soundly defeated Rey Mysterio to become the six-time World Heavyweight Champion, similarly giving every single critic a verbal pause.

Do I think Booker T deserves his title run? No way. I BELIEVE and know that he deserves a title reign, deserving it more than any wrestler in the WWE roster. It frustrates me when Booker repeatedly nabbed title shot against various opponents and came short. It angers me that he had been neglected to the midcard over and over and over again. It infuriates me that he did not become the World Champion the moment the miserable Invasion angle died out. Booker may have won other golden belts but the one that he should have been holding the whole time was the top prize: the World Heavyweight Championship. Now all of a sudden, it has happened at last. Could the WWE creative have finally snapped out of it? Could they have realize that Booker was deserving of a title run? It does not matter if they did or not but someone in the back with common place somehow managed to convince them that Booker would be a worthy World Champion instead of Mark Henry. And thank God because at least Booker T will retire into wrestling knowing that he won the World Heavyweight title in the WWE at long last. And he earned it.

Anyone who thinks Booker T is washed-up as a worker or an entertainer in general can eat it. Booker was and still is by far one of the most entertaining wrestlers to exist in the industry. Fans who have been followed Booker will forever remember his tenure on RAW with Goldust, providing fun segments that involved analyzing motion pictures, pulling off funny segments with the nWo (who could forget Goldust's mocking of X-Pac as a greasy rat?) and being a great tag team in a roster that was deprived of tag teams. Yet despite all these credentials, Booker never won a World Heavyweight title. Sure, he won many secondary championships but everyone knows that Booker T as World Champion made more sense than Booker T as Intercontinental Champion. Despite never winning it and despite repeatedly doing jobs, Booker continued to be over because fans knew he was a great wrestler and knew that he should be a World champion. They believed in him, even today. He was more appealing than the RAW main events at the time.

Even on SMACKDOWN, the booking of his character was nothing short of ridiculous. When he was drafted to SMACKDOWN, I thought he would finally be given the spotlight he deserved. After all, this was the same brand that made the late great Eddie Guerrero the WWE champion. But that never happened, at least not back then. The moment he was brought in, he was squashed. From the Undertaker to John Cena to JBL to even the freaking' Boogeyman, Booker's days on SMACKDOWN were even worse than on RAW. It's as if he was just brought there to suffer. But fans were still behind him and they were into his character, face or heel.

This was not the first time Booker T has been constantly neglected in a wrestling company. Even in WCW, where he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship several times, he was bantha fodder to many wrestlers and spent most of his time with Stevie Ray. Although he was part of one of the best tag teams in Harlem Heat, Booker T proved to be equally impressive in singles competition as in the tag team division. His "Best of 7 Falls" rivalry with Chris Benoit showcased the man's incredible talent and his feuds with the Steiner Brothers, Stevie Ray and M.I.A. proved that he had what it took to be a star. It did not matter how poorly booked he was; Booker T worked hard, he had great passion for wrestling and fans were always into him. They wanted him to be the top dog of the company, not Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash or Diamond Dallas Page.

Amazingly, he did not win his first WCW World Championship until 2000, which proved to be last year for WCW before folding in early 2001. But when Booker won the title from Jeff Jarrett, it was as if these unbearable years of frustration for this man was worth it. Booker's triumphant title win was not only one of the few highlights for the dying WCW but the ultimate highlight of the man himself: for him to win a championship that has been worn by Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Harley Race and Big Van Vader is like a dream come true. But it was not a mere coincidence that Booker won the championship. It was his strive to earn respect by working his ass off while never succumbing to politics that proved to be one of the factors in which his long overdue World title reign was given to him. And to think he not only won it once but five more times in one year. Amazing.

Similar to WWE, Booker has worked incredibly hard but has yet to have won the World Heavyweight Championship. It has been so long overdue that winning it only once did not matter, as long as fans saw through it that Booker became a champion. When SMACKDOWN was completely devoid of its major stars, Booker seize the opportunity to win the resurrected King of the Ring tournament and earned him a main event push, plus a very fresh gimmick. This gimmick, King Booker, is hilarious nostalgia, a throwback to the arrogant self-proclaimed kings of wrestling (not you Jarrett) as diverse as Harley Race, Ted DiBiase and Haku. This gimmick has given a new breath of fresh air for Booker's character as well as a title shot.

That title shot, which he finally garnered at long last, culminated in his triumphant World Heavyweight Championship victory over Rey Mysterio at this year's Great American Bash. While the PPV proved to be anything but great, Booker's World title victory mirrors that of his first WCW World title win over Jeff Jarrett at the Bash of the Beach, an authentic celebration. After four years of being de-pushed, pushed and buried, Booker has at long last rose to the top and nab his overdue World Championship.

So everybody, get on your knees and bow before the King.

ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!! ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!!

by Joe L. --- [View Joe L's Column Index]..