 Booker was the final WCW World Heavyweight Champion and WCW United States Heavyweight Champion under the WCW banner in 2001; sports journalist Michael Landsberg stated that Booker was considered "one of the best wrestlers alive", capable of "any match, any style".Industry veteran John Layfield later described him as "the best acquisition that WWE got when they bought WCW".Booker is a six-time world champion, having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship five times and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship once.