#4 Booker T vs Rick Martel SuperBrawl VIII
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Booker T was one of WCW’s few original, home grown talents. And despite having an underwhelming run as one-half of Harlem Heat with real life brother Stevie Ray, his singles run was what truly set him on the path to becoming the Five time! Five time! Five ti...well, you get the idea.
And on his way to the main event picture in WCW, he was inserted into a feud against Rick Martel for the TV Title.
SuperBrawl VIII hosted the gauntlet match, which had Martel facing Booker T in the first encounter, the winner of which would then face Perry Saturn immediately. It was a match, according to the bookers at least, that Rick Martel should have won.
But halfway through the first match with Booker T, fate would cruelly intercede.
Martel tore his knee against one of the ring ropes coming off an overzealous hip toss from Booker T, but being a supremely tough customer like most pro wrestlers are, opted to continue working the match. Only, he knew that there was no way he could work the second one against Saturn in his condition.
So they called an audible on the spot and had Booker T winning the title from Martel and defending it against Perry Saturn subsequently.
That match practically spelt the end of Martel’s career due to the injury he sustained. He would return to wrestle once more, incidentally against Booker T’s brother, Stevie Ray, but would get injured again and hang up his boots for good this time.
Booker T, on the other hand, ended up benefitting immensely from a genuine mistake that he had committed.
The match between Martel and him at SuperBrawl may have gone completely off the script but destiny, it would seem, had a script of its own.
