Recently, Ric Flair was profiled by The Baltimore Sun.

Now, The Houstin Chronicle has ran a story about hometown star, King Booker. Here it is:

They didn't have this category when Booker T. Huffman graduated from Jack Yates High School, but Huffman would have been voted ''Least Likely to Kick Anybody's Butt."

''I was a scrawny kid, barely 150 pounds, and I didn't play any sports. I was a drum major in the band. What I really wanted to do is be an entertainer," Huffman said.

He's entertaining millions of fans now, in addition to kicking some booty, as King Booker, a 250-pound muscle-bound, rule-breaking superstar in World Wrestling Entertainment.

Huffman mostly wrestled under the names Harlem Heat and Booker T during his 16-year career in WCW and WWE. Earlier this year he created the character King Booker, an English dandy (from Houston's Fifth Ward), complete with crown, cape, scepter - and very ridiculous British accent.

"The King Booker character was actually my wife, Sharmell's, idea," Huffman said. ''She was Miss Black America, so she's used to that world of wearing tiaras and crowns. This is my most successful character because it allows me to show off my acting ability."

King Booker has the slowest and funniest stage entrance in wrestling history. As he moves toward the ring, greeting his subjects with a royal wave and a fake tear in his eye, the announcer bellows, ''All hail King Booker!" over and over.And over and over.

''My record is seven minutes to get to the ring and 54 'All hail King Bookers.' The ring announcers hate having to do that," Huffman laughed. "But it's great because it gets the crowd into my character. Those boos are music to my ears."

Even though he recently dropped the world-title belt to Batista, Huffman said he's riding high in the WWE.

''I can't believe I've come this far. After a lot of years of wrestling locally, I finally got signed by World Championship Wrestling in 1990. That was my first serious paycheck. I even got to wrestle in Japan, which was my first time on a plane. Now I've been around the world many times, and things are really great for me."

He is the most successful black pro wrestler ever, having won major titles (several times) in World Wrestling Entertainment and World Championship Wrestling.

Still, there are only so many bumps and bruises left in his 41-year-old body, so Huffman is plotting his post-wrestling career.

''I've got a wrestling school in downtown Houston (Booker T's Wrestling Academy) , and I've formed a new group called the PWA — the Pro Wrestling Alliance. I want this group to be based in my hometown and bring back the glory days of Houston wrestling, when we had shows here every week. I have the blessing of the WWE, and I'll be using WWE stars on our shows in addition to my students," he said.

The next Pro Wrestling Alliance event, dubbed Christmas Chaos, will be Dec. 21 at the Pasadena Convention Center. For ticket information, call 713-222-0588.

''I'll be wrestling Charlie Haas that night, and we'll have WWE stars like Umaga and Boogeyman on the card, but I want just as much attention put on the younger wrestlers. The goal is to have my group become a training ground for future WWE superstars."