WCW - 4th Horseman
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Chris Benoit- World Championship Wrestling Chris Benoit was quickly was made a member of the reformed Four Horsemen in 1995, alongside Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, and Brian Pillman. When Pillman abruptly left the company for the WWF, Chris Benoit was placed in an ongoing feud with Kevin Sullivan (who was a booker), and booked a feud in which Chris Benoit was having an affair with Sullivan's real life wife Woman. Forced to spend time together to make the affair look real, (hold hands in public, share hotel rooms, etc.) Chris Benoit and Nancy developed feelings for each other and began having a real affair. Nancy left Sullivan and WCW in 1997. Chris Benoit beat Sullivan in a retirement match, but Sullivan continued to use his booking authority to hold Benoit back. Later that year, Chris Benoit had a rivalry with Booker T. Both men had trained at winning the WCW Television Championship, but both were unsuccessful. This led to a competition to see who would go on to be the number one contender for the title, which would set up the Best-of-Seven series. Chris Benoit won the first three falls, and Booker came back to tie in the next three encounters. Their final match was set before the Great American Bash. While the referee was down, Bret Hart came to interfere on behalf of Chris Benoit, in hopes of him joining the New World Order. Chris Benoit refused, and told the referee what happened, and got himself disqualified. Booker thought it was a hollow victory, so they were to have a match the Bash to see who go on to fight Dave Finlay later that night. Both made a valiant effort with Benoit delivering suplexes and Booker giving a multitude of hard kicks. It ended with a missile dropkick by Booker, and he went on to fight Finlay for the belt later that night. This elevated both men's careers considerably as singles competitors, and both would remain at the top of the midcard with their matches. In 1999, he resumed teaming with new Horseman and former ECW partner Dean Malenko in a series of WCW World Tag Team Championship matches against Raven and Perry Saturn, and were among the best of the year. Chris Benoit and Malenko defeated Curt Hennig and Barry Windham to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship, and later in 1999 he would win the United States title as well. He formed the "Revolution" team with Malenko, Saturn, and Shane Douglas around this time, highlighting his unhappiness with WCW management. Chris Benoit's most notable match of 1999 would be his match with Bret Hart on WCW Nitro in October 1999, in Kansas City. The match was a tribute to Owen Hart, in the building where Owen had died. In November, he wrestled Bret in Toronto, Ontario in the finals of a World Heavyweight title tournament. He lost that match, and by January 2000, WCW had made their last try at keeping him, giving him the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at the Souled Out PPV. However, due to disagreements with management and the promotion of Kevin Sullivan to head writer, Chris Benoit left the company, forfeiting his WCW World Title in the process, and the decision was reversed the very next night on Nitro by referee Randy Anderson. The very next day, Chris Benoit departed for the World Wrestling Federation, appearing on RAW along with Guerrero, Saturn and Malenko, to protest the promotion of Kevin Sullivan as head booker. Chris Benoit WCW Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Host 'server.full-effect.com' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /home/chrisben/public_html/WCW_-_4th_Horseman.php on line 140 cant connect | |