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#4 Booker T - 2004
After being one of WCW's best tag team wrestlers in the 90's as apart of Harlem Heat, Booker T was finally given his biggest singles push in 2000 when he defeated Jeff Jarrett at the controversial Bash At The Beach event for his first WCW World Championship.
By the time WCW went out of business, Booker had become a 4 time WCW Champion, and winning his fifth in WWE. Booker's main event push in 2001 in WWE was full of starting and stopping, before eventually staying at a very slow pace throughout 2002 and 2003. Despite being barely featured in Heavyweight Championship matches during that time, Booker T still had many excellent performances.
The, something happened, and it is hard to say what exactly. Booker T just seemed to have a very off year in 2004, with very few entertaining matches. He started the year off by forming a short-lived tag team with Rob Van Dam, which, while they did win the Tag Team titles, the team only existed for the duo to have something to do at WrestleMania XX.
Booker was then transferred over to Smackdown, and after a few weeks of squash matches, he entered what seemed like a promising feud with The Undertaker.
The two met in the ring at Judgement Day, for what would be a very sluggish 11 minute match. And a rematch on Smackdown 3 weeks later was no better. From here, Booker entered a 4 month long feud with John Cena. Now today, John Cena is probably one of the best of all time, but back in 2004, it was quite the opposite, John was just complete pants. He was very inexperienced for the position he was in, and it showed very much in his Best of 5 Series with Booker T.
After a dozen dismal matches with John Cena, Booker entered the WWE Championship picture where he unsuccessfully challenged the then barely mobile JBL, in a couple boring matches. Booker at least ended the year on a high in a great Fatal Four Way with Bradshaw, Undertaker and Eddie Guerrero at Armageddon. He bounced back to his entertaining ways in 2005 with a string of rewarding matches with Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit.
Teddy Long snaps when Swerve Strickland's race is brought up HERE
