King Booker's Court

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King Booker's Court
Stable
Members	King Booker Queen Sharmell Finlay
Name(s)	The King's Court King Booker's Court
Heights	King Booker 6 ft 3 in (190 cm) Finlay 5 ft 10½ in (179 cm)
Combined weight	486 lb
Former members	William Regal
Debuted	August 25, 2006
Promotions	WWE

King Booker's Court are a heel professional wrestling stable in World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand. It was formed shortly after Booker T (who would become known as King Booker) won the King of the Ring tournament in mid-2006. King Booker would dub his wife Queen Sharmell and be joined by William Regal (later rechristened Sir William Regal) and Finlay (rechristened Sir Finlay). However, in November the court disbanded with another return in December without Regal.

1 History
2 Members
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 External Links

[edit] History

The King's Court was unofficially founded on the May 26, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, when King Booker had his Coronation Ceremony, celebrating his King of the Ring tournament final victory at Judgment Day over Bobby Lashley. The ceremony was led by Sir William Regal, playing the role of a town crier and repeatedly shouting "All hail King Booker!" as Booker walked to the ring. Sharmell was anointed by King Booker as his Queen, and Finlay/Sir Finlay joined the group to help Booker continue to feud with Lashley.

King Booker would soon end his feud with Lashley after becoming the #1 contender for Rey Mysterio's World Heavyweight Championship. However, Finlay would go on to defeat Lashley during this time to take Lashley's WWE United States Championship.

At Great American Bash 2006, King Booker became the World Heavyweight Champion, defeating Rey Mysterio with help from the heel turn of Chavo Guerrero. The Great American Bash also saw Finlay take on Regal in a one on one match for the United States Title, Sir Finlay coming out victorious with help from the Little Bastard. These events repeated themselves via rematches on the July 28 episode of SmackDown!, at first making it unclear whether Sir Regal or Finlay has turned face, or whether they will even remain in the King's Court. At Summerslam, King Booker retained his title against Batista and Finlay and William Regal attacked DX.

King Booker's Court members Finlay and William Regal forcing Bobby Lashley to kiss King Booker's royal feet

On the August 25 episode of SmackDown!, the two members were "knighted" together - thus rechristening them as "Sir" William Regal and "Sir" Finlay, as well as signalling the official founding of the King's Court - before teaming up with their King in a 3-on-2 Handicap Match against Lashley and Batista later that night.

Booker would later defeat Batista thanks to inference by Sir Finlay, who would continue to attack and bloody him afterward, igniting a fued between the two. The Court's issues with the peasant Lashley continue as he was set to take on Booker at No Mercy, however General Manager of SmackDown, Theodore Long, announced the match to be a fatal four-way match that would also contain Finlay and Batista.

On the October 6 edition of SmackDown, Booker and Lashley were each able to pick the other's opponent for that night. Booker had to fight Finlay so he asked Finlay to be a good knight and lay down, but Finlay said that he never lays down for anybody. They went on to have the match, in which Finlay picked up the victory. Afterwards, they interfered in the Lashley vs Batista match, (Batista being the "poison" that King Booker picked). Following this, Theodore Long announced the previously mentioned 4 way at No Mercy, and then booked Batista and Lashley vs Finlay and King Booker. Finlay and King Booker, however, did not get along.

At No Mercy, after failing at his task to get Finlay to be allies with Booker, King Booker called Regal pathetic and slapped him in the face. Regal could have no more so he punched Booker and walked away.

After this 'incident' the court disbanded with Regal going into the tag team division with partner Dave Taylor and Finlay taking on Booker and Batista in singles matches (with Booker losing the World title in the process to Batista at Surivor Series).

The court returned on the December 8 edition of SmackDown (without Regal) where they claimed that they would beat their tag team opponents (World Heavyweight Champion Batista and WWE Champion John Cena) at Armageddon, however they lost the match. Finlay and Booker have reunited in various tag team matches on SmackDown as temporary allies since then.