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As a six-time world champion, TV commentator, and holder of more than 35 major titles in WWE, WCW, and TNA, Huffman knows what it means to fight. He learned long before he entered the ring, when daily survival was a fierce battle.

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Booker T casts an honest, clear eye on the life of a kid who grows into a criminal, one who learns his lessons from a family and community of hustlers, dealers, pimps, prostitutes, thieves, and killers. He tells it straight, without excuse. -- PW Torch (August 2012)

"""Booker's story is incredible. You've heard the term 'from rags to riches?' Booker had less than rags."" --www.DougCataldo.blogspot.com "" Booker T casts an honest, clear eye on the life of a kid who grows into a criminal, one who learns his lessons from a family and community of hustlers, dealers, pimps, prostitutes, thieves, and killers. He tells it straight, without excuse."" -- PW Torch (August 2012) ""Booker's T journey is not only a testament to someone's will for a better life, but an inspiring story that shows you can overcome anything with the will to be better than you were."" --www.OtakusAndGeeks.com ""There will be times where a shiver runs down your spine, reading how fine a line he walked and lived; you will weep along with him as he recounts how death has affected him, from his parents to a girlfriend who commits suicide; there will also be times when you share in his elation, such as when he is paroled, or when he does his first spinaroonie."" --Greg Oliver, www.slam.canoe.ca ""In Booker T: From Prison to Promise ... you will read the most intimate details of the early life of one of the most famous American wrestlers of this generation. Say this for Booker T: he does not hold anything back."" --Robert Weir, www.WrestlingFigs.com ""An uplifting story of setting one's life straight, Booker T: From Prison to Promise is well worth considering for fans of Booker's work and of memoirs about going straight."" -- Midwest Book Review (October 2012) ""The book is refreshingly honest and a raw tale of how one man overcame quite a bit of adversity, some of which was bad luck and some of which was self-induced, to become a success."" --www.VoicesOfWrestling.com ""Highly educational, entertaining, and straight off the cuff. This leaves the reader wanting to know more. I cannot wait to read [Booker T. Huffman and Andrew William Wright's] next book! Booker T is a book with positive life-affirming lessons."" --www.NightOwlReviews.com"

There will be times where a shiver runs down your spine, reading how fine a line he walked and lived; you will weep along with him as he recounts how death has affected him, from his parents to a girlfriend who commits suicide; there will also be times when you share in his elation, such as when he is paroled, or when he does his first spinaroonie. --Greg Oliver, www.slam.canoe.ca

Booker's story is incredible. You've heard the term 'from rags to riches?' Booker had less than rags. --www.DougCataldo.blogspot.com

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"Booker T. Huffman is the WWE Smackdown General Manager and a trainer for the hugely popular reality series, ""World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) Tough Enough."" He holds 35 major professional titles within ""WWE, World Championship Wrestling (WCW),"" and ""Total Nonstop Action (TNA)."" He owns and operates Pro Wrestling Academy, a wrestling school which strives to help students ages 13 and up achieve their dreams. His nonprofit organization, ""Booker T Fights for Kids Foundation,"" has supported many outreach endeavors, including the patient-focused campaign of the ""National Marrow Donor Program(R), "" overseas visits to U.S. troops, and displaced Hurricane Katrina victims. He lives in Houston, Texas. Andrew William Wright, a Jersey Shore based producer and award winning author, produced both The Hardy Show (featuring Matt and Jeff Hardy) and RVD TV (with Rob Van Dam) internet and DVD series and has written for several New Jersey newspapers, including specialty features and high school sports for both The Ocean County Observer and the Asbury Park Press. His first book which began production with Medallion in 2009, “The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and the Rush of Wrestling”, coauthored with WWE Legend and Hall of Famer Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis and released in 2011, is one of Medallion’s most popular and best selling titles of all time, reaching number one on Amazon.com three separate times and led to a major publication release in Japan. Wright’s second autobiography, “Booker T: From Prison To Promise”, penned alongside current WWE Superstar and Hall of Famer Booker T. Huffman and released in 2012, not only became an Amazon bestseller as well, but won the bronze Independent Publisher Book Award in 2013. This success prompted an immediate follow up, “Booker T: My Rise To Wrestling Royalty”, which will hit all major retail outlets in late 2014."

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