[2] During his amateur career he won the Michigan State and Regional championships every year from 1992 through 2000, his first national title came in 1999.

[3] Much later in his professional career, while out of jail on bond and far from tip-top shape, he signed for an IBA world championship heavyweight bout with James Toney.

Five months before, Booker had been arrested in Detroit with three other men and charged with possession of cocaine and intent to deliver more than 1,000 grams of the drug.

[5][6] Shortly after his first professional loss to James Toney,[7] Booker was convicted for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver over 1000 grams.

After serving over a decade, Booker was released, and won three comeback bouts of six rounds duration, before losing a televised ten round bout by unanimous decision to undefeated heavyweight Jermaine Franklin in Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall.