Christopher Michael "Chris" Benoit (French pronunciation: [bəˈnwɑ]) (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler whose career and life ended in a murder–suicide. During his professional wrestling career, Benoit worked for such major promotions as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE).
Among other accolades, Benoit is a two-time world champion: a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, one-time World Heavyweight Champion (tied for third longest reign in history). Both of his world title reigns were represented by the Big Gold Belt: Benoit is one of four men to have held the Big Gold Belt in both WCW and WWE, alongside Bill Goldberg, Booker T and Big Show. He is also a record-tying five-time WCW/WWE United States Champion, having held the championship twice in WCW, and three times in WWE. The twelfth WWE Triple Crown Champion and seventh WCW Triple Crown Champion, he is the second of four men in history to achieve both the WWF and WCW Triple Crown Championships.
Larry King (born November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards. He began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978. From 1985-2010, he hosted the nightly interview TV program Larry King Live on CNN.
King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York City, to an Austrian immigrant Edward Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense plant worker, and his wife Jennie Gitlitz, a garment worker, who emigrated from Belarus. King grew up in a religiously observant Jewish home, but in adulthood became an agnostic.
King's father died at 44 of heart disease, and his mother had to go on welfare to support her two sons. His father's death greatly affected King, and he lost interest in school. After graduating from high school, he worked to help support his mother. From an early age, however, he had wanted to go into radio. King is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Brock Edward Lesnar (/ˈlɛznər/; born July 12, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, actor, former mixed martial artist and amateur wrestler, signed with WWE and appearing on its Raw brand. He is also a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and former #1 ranked mixed martial arts (MMA) Heavyweight by Sherdog; he was ranked #5 before he announced his retirement at the end of 2011. Lesnar is an accomplished amateur wrestler, winning the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship and placing second in 1999, losing in the finals to 1999 world freestyle wrestling champion and future New England Patriots offensive lineman Stephen Neal.
He gained prominence in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2002 to 2004, where he is a former three-time WWE Champion, becoming the youngest WWE Champion at age 25 with his first reign. Lesnar was the 2002 King of the Ring and the winner of the 2003 Royal Rumble. After leaving WWE, Lesnar pursued a career in the NFL. He played during the preseason for the Minnesota Vikings, but ended up being a late cut. Lesnar returned to professional wrestling at the end of 2005, and joined New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match. He was officially stripped of the title by NJPW in July 2006, and took the physical belt with him to Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), where he was still recognized as IWGP Champion until June 2007.
Dean Malenko: ["The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan has interfered in the Dean Malenko-Chris Benoit match] He was not supposed to be here.
Plot
SuperBrawl is usually one of WCW's biggest PPV's of the year. This year, SuperBrawl takes place at the legendary Cow Palace in San Francisco, California. Hollywood Hogan and the new World order are running rampant through World Championship Wrestling. However, this is a night WCW Superstars are fighting back against the renegade faction. The WCW Executive Board has named "Rowdy" Roddy Piper the number one contender for Hollywood Hogan's World Heavyweight Championship. Can Piper beat Hogan one more time, only this time for the most coveted title in professional wrestling? The Giant and Lex Luger battle the nWo's Outsiders for the WCW Tag Team Championship. The catch is that WCW President Eric Bischoff has refused to allow Luger to participate in the match due to him not having a medical release in time. Bischoff is forcing The Giant to take on both Outsiders by himself for the WCW Tag Team Championship. Can The Giant pull through for World Championship Wrestling and all of its fans? The other headline match on the card is a San Francisco Death Match between Kevin Sullivan and Chris Benoit. Not only will it be a Death Match, but Woman and Jacqueline will be strapped together at ringside bound by a leather strap. Don't miss WCW SuperBrawl VII!
Plot
Turner Sports President, Dr. Harvey Schiller recently removed Eric Bischoff as the President of WCW. A move that has swayed the balance of power back to WCW in the war with the nWo. In the midst of all of the chaos with Bischoff's ousting, a main event of epic proportions was named for the upcoming WCW Uncensored 1997 event. A three team battle royal elimination match. Three teams with three different agendas and goals. Team WCW consists of Lex Luger, The Giant, and The Steiner Brothers. If Team WCW wins, the nWo must return all of the WCW Championships they have and will be forced off of WCW Television for 18 months. Team Piper consists of "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and 4 Horsemen members: Jeff Jarrett, Steve "Mongo" McMichael, and Jeff Jarrett. If Team Piper wins, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper gets Hollywood Hogan in a cage match. Team nWo consists of Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Randy "Macho Man" Savage. If Team nWo wins, the nWo gets the right to challenge for any WCW Championship anytime they choose. While Bischoff's removal from power was a negative for the New World Order, they aren't letting that stop them by announcing that NBA Bad Boy, Dennis Rodman would appear at WCW Uncensored as the newest member of the nWo. The stakes are high, only one team can survive! Which will it be and what will "Rod the Bod" do?
Keywords: african-american, apathy, assault, baseball-bat, basketball-player, brawl, brother-brother-relationship, canadian, champion, cookie-sheet
Bobby Heenan: [after someone got laid out by a baking pan during the Public Enemy-Harlem Heat match] Who booked this match, Martha Stewart?::Dusty Rhodes: No, Betty White.
Dusty Rhodes: They laid his old tired ass out! Oh, excuse me at home, everybody!
James Vandenberg: Remember Tai Pei!
Plot
The Outsiders & Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage, Sting & Lex Luger, WCW U.S. Title: Konnan vs. Ric Flair, WCW Cruiserweight Title: Dean Malenko vs. Disco Inferno, The Giant & Kevin Sullivan vs. Arn Anderson & Chris Benoit, Dog Collar Match: The Nasty Boys vs. Public Enemy, Taped Fist Match: Diamond Dallas Page vs. Jim Duggan, Carson City Dollar Match: John Tenta vs. Big Bubba, Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Psichosis, Steve McMichael vs. Joe Gomez
Keywords: beach, wcw, wrestling
This is no day at the beach!
[commentating on a spectacular wrestling move Psichosis attempted from the top rope]::Mike Tenay: Psichosis tries a twisting Asai Moonsault!::Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: What?
[after Diamond Dallas Page falls crotch first on the top rope]::Tony Schiavone: I would imagine there is more ringing than the ring right now!
Gene Okerlund: Hulk Hogan, excuse me. Excuse me. What in the world are you thinking?::Hulk Hogan: Mean Gene the first thing you gotta do is to tell these people to shut up if they want to hear what I've gotta say.::Gene Okerlund: I have been with you for so many years for you to join up with the likes of these two men absoulutely makes me SICK to my stomach! And I think that these people here and a lot of people around the whole wrestling world have had just about enough of this man and this man and you want to put yourself in this group? You've gotta be...kidding me!::Hulk Hogan: Well the first thing you've gotta realize brother is that this right here is the future of wrestling. You can call this the New World Order of wrestling brother. These two men came from a great big organization up north and everybody was wondering about who the third man was. Well who knows more about that organization than me brother?::Gene Okerlund: I've been there and done that. You have made the wrong decision in my opinion.::Hulk Hogan: Well let me tell you something, I made that orgainization brother! I made the people rich up there. I made the people that ran that organization rich up there. And when it all came to pass, the name Hulk Hogan, the man Hulk Hogan got bigger than the entire organization brother! And then Billionaire Ted amigo, he wanted to talk turkey with Hulk Hogan. Well Billionaire Ted promised me movies brother. Billionaire Ted promised me millions of dollars. And Billionaire Ted promised me world caliber matches. And as far as Billionaire Ted, Eric Bischoff and entire WCW goes, I'm bored brother. That's why I want these two guys here, these so called Outsiders, these are the men I want as my friends. They are the new blood of professional wrestling and not only are we going to take over the whole wrestling business, with Hulk Hogan, the new blood and the monsters with me. We will destroy everything in our path Mean Gene.::Gene Okerlund: [refering to the increasing garbage being thrown in the ring] Look at all of this crap in this ring! This is what's in the future for you if you want to hang around the likes of this man Hall, and this man Nash.::Hulk Hogan: As far as I'm concerned, all this crap in this ring represents these fans out here. For two years brother! For two years, I held my head high. I did everything for the charities. I did everything for the kids. And the reception I got when came out here, you fans can stick it brother. Because if it wasn't for Hulk Hogan, you people wouldn't be here. If it wasn't for Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff would still be selling meat from a truck in Minneapolis. And if it wasn't for Hulk Hogan, all of these "Johnny come latelys" that you see out here wrestling wouldn't be here. I was selling the world out brother while they were bumming gas to put in their car to get to high school. So the way it is now brother, with Hulk Hogan and the New World Organization of wrestling brother, me and the new blood by my side. Whatcha gonna do when the New World Order runs wild on you? Whatcha gonna do? [Grabs Mean Gene] What are you gonna do?::Gene Okerlund: Hey, don't touch me! Don't touch me, I'm going to see the lawyers! Tony, Dusty, Bobby, Dammit let's get back to you!::Tony Schiavone: All right. We have seen the end of Hulkamania. For Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, for Dusty Rhodes, For "Mean" Gene Okerlund, I don't know...I'm Tony Schiavone. Hulk Hogan, you can go to hell! We're outta here. Straight to hell.
Tony Schiavone: [Kevin Nash has just low blowed Randy Savage] And then there was one. And it's Sting and he doesn't look to good.::Dusty Rhodes: [Hulk Hogan comes down the aisleway] Hulkamania!::Tony Schiavone: HULK HOGAN! HULK HOGAN'S HERE!::Dusty Rhodes: HULK HOGAN IS IN THE BUILDING!::Tony Schiavone: You damn right he is!::Dusty Rhodes: Go get em Hulkster!::Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: Yeah but who's side is he on?::Dusty Rhodes: Go get em-- What are you talking about?::Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: Who's side is he on?::Dusty Rhodes: What are you talking about? [Hogan tears his shirt and clears the ring of the outsiders] Get em Hulkster! Go get em baby!::Tony Schiavone: Yeah you're going to get some of this now!::Dusty Rhodes: Who's bad now boys?::Tony Schiavone: Hulk Hogan arrived-- [Hogan then drops the leg on Savage] OH MY GOD!!::Dusty Rhodes: WHAT IS HE DOING?!!! IS HE THE THIRD MAN?!::Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: He's the third man!::Dusty Rhodes: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!!::Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: Hulk Hogan has betrayed WCW! He is the third man in this picture!::Tony Schiavone: Oh my god!::Dusty Rhodes: What is going on?!!::Tony Schiavone: Oh my god!!::Dusty Rhodes: Are you kidding me?::Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: Probally the lowest shot ever given to professional wrestling. That man did right there, Hulk Hogan.::Tony Schiavone: Let's get everyone out of the dressing room right now and kick his rear end!
[Commentating on a brawl on the "beach" entrance stage]::Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: OH! Wipeout!::Dusty Rhodes: I was just gonna say that!
Tony Schiavone: [During the Public Enemy-Nasty Boys match] You can do much more with a surfboard than you can with a rubber shark.
Sting: [to Team WCW teammate Lex Luger at the end of their interview before War Games] I'll see you in a while.
Plot
WCW Title: Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage, WCW Tag Team Titles: Harlem Heat vs. The Outsiders, WCW Cruiserweight Title: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko, Syxx vs. Chris Jericho, Lex Luger vs. Arn Anderson, Dallas Page vs. Eddie Guerrero, The Giant vs. Jeff Jarrett, Chris Benoit & Steve McMichael vs. The Faces of Fear
Keywords: wrestling
Plot
WCW World Champion Hollywood Hogan vs. Roddy Piper (non-title match), WCW United States Title: Eddie Guerrero vs. Dallas Page, WCW Cruiserweight/Super J Cup Titles: Ultimo Dragon vs. Dean Malenko, WCW Tag Team Titles: The Outsiders vs. The Faces of Fear, WCW Women's Title: Madusa vs. Akira Hokuto, Jushin Liger vs. Rey Mysterio Jr., Jeff Jarrett vs. Chris Benoit, Lex Luger vs. The Giant,
Keywords: african-american, barbarian, baseball-bat, belt-whipping, betrayal, choke-hold, enigmatic, ex-boxer, father-son-relationship, female-wrestler
Plot
WCW Title: Randy Savage vs. the winner of a triangle match between Sting, Lex Luger & Ric Flair, WCW United States Title: Kensuke Sasaki vs. The One Man Gang, The World Cup of Wrestling tournament, featuring Sting, Jushin Liger, Eddie Guerrero, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Alex Wright, Masa Chono, Randy Savage, Shinjiro Ohtani, Johnny B. Badd, Koji Kanemoto, Lex Luger, Masa Saito, Chris Benoit & Kensuke Sasaki
Keywords: wrestling
The World Cup of Wrestling
Down
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
I'll measure up all regrets
I'll measure up all regrets
I'll measure up all regrets
I'll measure up all regrets
It builds up, feels up
Too much goes over board
What the f*uck am I doing?
Oh lord pressure stored exploded, unloaded
What the f*uck am I doing?
I had to, is really do, bad too
Went cucu
Gonna do
Clap back, stab, boom
Who knew
Sad news
What the f*uck am I doing?
I I I
Broke, it took some time
Slow poke
I finally gave way, when under deed
Down flow
No longer stearing choosen
An autopilot cruisin
Haywire, crash, virus
Pull your tongue out with player dispatch
No longer stearing, lost all control
Manipulation (manipualtion), it won't let me go
The pain exploded (the pain exploded), the pressure burst (the pressure burst)
I drop the wheel (I drop the wheel)
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
Let's go blight
Let go, hold tight
Wake up to this
Head to, is really too bad too
Close eyes?
You did this, this you
What the f*uck am I doing?
You got issues
What happened, shit I'm steping
All bloody myself I'm slapping
One day, all the sudden, I'll became too much, one day
Yes, finally will leash
What the f*uck am I doing?
Unleash the beast
He gets my controler
What the f*uck am I doing?
Took me over
Head to,
Is really too bad, too
Went cucu
Grab that, stab, foose
No longer stearing, lost all control
Manipulation (manipualtion), it won't let me go
The pain exploded (the pain exploded), the pressure burst (the pressure burst)
I drop the wheel (I drop the wheel)
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst
I can take you over, permanetly
Because lie is a rope
I'm the cripler, Chris
And waa
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
A catastrophic demise
I'm heading for the worst
(A passion for the regrets)
(The crippler)
Heading for the worst
(A passion for the regrets)
(The crippler)
Heading for the worst
Heading for the worst