Several LCW Legends to Appear at Booker T's Legends of Wrestling Charity Event

On Friday, April 3rd, only 48 hours before WrestleMania 25, Booker T will present the Legends of Wrestling Fanfest from the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX, a mere eight miles from Reliant Stadium which will host WrestleMania 25.

LCW Legend Baby Doll is scheduled to appear at the event with NWALegends.com.

Thousands of wrestling fans are expected to flood Houston for WrestleMania weekend, and Booker T is hoping some of that traffic would be steered toward his event to support the Booker T's Fight For Kids Foundation charity, which is raising money for a 24-hour youth center.

Baby Doll is scheduled to appear with several other featured LCW Legends including Stan Hansen, Iceman King Parsons, Jimmy Hart, Nasty Boy Brian Knobs, Diamond Dallas Page, and LCW International Champion Tully Blanchard.

Also scheduled to appear: TNA World Champion Sting, Kevin Nash, Amy "Lita" Dumas, Christy Hemme, former TNA World Champion Samoa Joe, Jake The Snake Roberts, TNA's Beautiful People: Angelina Love and Velvet Sky, Team 3-D, Ernest Miller, Kimberly Page, Kishi, and former WWF Women's Champion Rockin' Robin.

Booker T wouldn't name names, but PWInsider.com's Mike Johnson reported this week that several wrestlers who agreed to appear at the event, including Torrie Wilson, Ron Simmons, former LCW General Manager Nick Bockwinkel, and reigning LCW United States Champion Tito Santana suddenly pulled out of the event after accepting bookings from WWE and "within 24 hours of... launching the [charity event] website." Johnson also reported that in the case of most, Booker T had already purchased plane tickets for their travel.

In an interview with HoustonPress.com, Booker T said, "It's not going to stop anything, we're still going to go forward with it. We're just replacing those people with actually bigger names." He also added, "I don't think me doing my charity is going to hurt the revenue of WrestleMania, or hurt the Hall of Fame, and we're not doing this, you know, to hurt WrestleMania, or ride their coattails or anything."

Johnson also alleged, "Since word of Booker's convention came out, World Wrestling Entertainment began contacting a number of talents and instead booked them to appear in some fashion over the WrestleMania weekend, including the company's AXXESS sessions and the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony, specifically asking them not to appear on the Booker T event."

WWE Vice President of Public Relations and Corporate Communications Robert Zimmerman said WWE is not in the business of stealing anyone's talent.

"I don't even know what his charity deal is, to be perfectly honest with you," Zimmerman told HoustonPress.com. He also said that WWE has plenty of charity events planned itself, including raising funds to promote children's literacy, and donating to libraries.

For more information on this special charity event and to order tickets, please visit bookertlow.com.