Christopher Michael Benoît (n. 21 of May of 1967 -? 24 of June of 2007), were a Canadian professional fighter who worked for the companies Carries far Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and mainly in the World Wrestling Entertainment and its marks RAW, SmackDown! and ECW. Benoit grew in Edmonton (Alberta), widely being known like one the best technical fighters in the world and like one the most dedicated workers within the WWE. Benoit was 2 times World-wide Champion throughout its race: 1 time World-wide Champion Heavy Weight and 1 time World-wide Champion of the WCW. In addition, Chris was the winner of the seventeenth edition of event PPV Royal Rumble, and has in its salary 5 reigns like Champion of the United States.
Stampede Wrestling [ to publish ] 1985-1989 [ to publish ] Benoit admired to Dynamite Kid while it grew, and their beginnings went imitándolo.[1 ] When it began to fight, was nicknamed like “Dynamite” Chris Benoit. Benoit began to use the “Diving Headbutt” and the “Snap Suplex”, both movements used by Dynamite Kid. After years of arduous training with “Dungeon”, Chris Benoit initiated its race in 1985 professionally, in the Stampede Wrestling. Its debut was the 22 of November of 1985 in Calgary, Alberta, where it formed equipment with “The Remarkable” Rick Patterson and it faced Butch Moffat and Mike Hammer. During its period in Stampede, Benoit gained several International Championships in Pairs and Championships of the British Community, and had a feudo with Johnny Smith, who lasted near a year. By the end of 1989, Stampede Wrestling closed its doors, and thanks to a recommendation of Bad News Allen, Benoit was transferred to New Japan Pro Wrestling. New Japan Pro Wrestling [ to publish ] 1989-1994 [ to publish ] Before its arrivo to New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Benoit was almost a year training next to several young fighters. Benoit made debut in Japan using mask and under the name of The Pegasus Kid. While it was in the NJPW, Benoit it grew very many like fighter, after carrying out fights Jushin Liger, Shinjiro Ohtani, The Black Tiger and the Samurai in the junior division as opposed to. In 1990, Benoit gained its first important championship, the Championship Heavy Junior Peso of the IWGP, defeating to Jushin Liger. Benoit possibly lost the championship (and its mask) with Liger, forzándo to Benoit to renombrar itself like Wild Pegasus. Benoit had in Japan more classic fights, after gaining the Match of Super Juniors twice (1993 and 1995). Benoit gained the Match of Super Glass J in 1994, defeating to Black Tiger, Gedo and Great Sasuke in the end, increasing his estatus of one of best the Junior Heavyweight (Cruiserweight or Crucero) of the world. Benoit occasionally fought outside the New Japan Pro Wrestling to compete in Mexico and Germany, where it gained several regional championships, including the Championship Slight Weights of the WWF. Benoit retained the championship by more of a year, having several fights of more than 40 minutes with Villain III. World Championship Wrestling [ to publish ] 1992-1993 [ to publish ] Chris Benoit went for the first time to the WCW in June of 1992, forming equipment with the Canadian fighter Biff Wellington, entering a match by the World-wide Championships in Pairs of the NWA; they were defeated by Brian Pillman and Jushin Liger in the first round. Benoit did not return to the WCW until January of 1993 in the Clash of the Champions, defeating to Brad Armstrong. A month later, in Superbrawl III, Benoit was defeated by 2 Cold Scorpio, having received the count just by 3 second rest in a fight of 20 minutes like time limit. During that period it formed equipment with Bobby Eaton. After Benoit and Eaton lost with Scorpio and Marcus Bagwell in Slamboree, Benoit returned to Japan. [ carries far Championship Wrestling to publish ] 1994-1995 [ to publish ] In 1995 it returned to the United States and it signed contract with the ECW. During this Benoit period the name of “Canadian Crippler” gains after breaking the neck of Sabu accidentally. By traumatic which it go the incident served Benoit to him to gain a reputation, being able being presented/displayed like one of the best fighters, able to break to its adversaries in two. Paul Heyman often gave monólogos lengths him to make the promos like a way of which he left his timidity natural and he hard showed to his robust side and one more a personality back. He had remarkable fights with Sabu, To Snow and 2 Cold Scorpio. More ahead the Championship in Pairs of ECW would gain together Malenko Dean. During this period it had several fights of test for the WWF, he had been chosen to be the paper “The Ringmaster” (paper that would finish into the hands of Stone Cold Steve Austin), but when not being able to obtain an appropriate visa of Chris work interchange of talents decided to go away again to Japan by means of the New Japan/WCW. This caused that Benoit signed contract with the WCW at the end of the ‘ 95. World Championship Wrestling [ to publish ] 1995-1996 [ to publish ] Benoit quickly became a new member of the reformed group “Four Horseman” in 1995, along with Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman. When Pillman left the company by a race in the WWF, Benoit was put in a fight against Kevin Sullivan (that was also a writer) which wrote the fight with Benoit as result of a loving encounter between Chris and its wife in the real life Nancy Daus, whose name in Ring was Woman. Forced to spend time together to cause that the love affair seemed real (they walked of the hand in public, shared hotel rooms, etc), Benoit and Nancy they began to have a love affair outside Ring. 1997-1998 [ to publish ] Nancy left the WCW and to Sullivan in 1997. Benoit won to him to Sullivan in a retirement fight, but this one last one continued working like writer and using its authority to maintain to Benoit far from gold. At the end of that Benoit year a confrontation with Booker T began. The attempts of both men to gain the WCW World Championship Television had been in vain. This took to a competition to see that gained a series of 7. Benoit gained 3 and Booker 3 of the 7 encounter reason why they arrived with a tie at the last fight, which was dated before the Great American Bash. While the referee was disqualified, Bret Hart took part in the fight hoping so Chris was united to the NWO. Benoit refused and said to the referee the happened thing and the same one disqualified. Booker thought that it was an empty victory, so it in line put his title again against Finlay. In 1999 it ended up making even with one of old the 4 horseman and companion of the ECW Malenko Dean in a series by the WCW World Tag Team Championship against Raven and Perry Saturn, until finally gaining the championship. That same year also gained the WCW United States Championship, forming a new equipment with Malenko, Saturn and Shane Douglas like a way to show its dissatisfaction with the way of the WCW. 1999-2000 [ to publish ] The most remarkable fight that it had Benoit in 1999 was against Bret Hart in WCW Nitro, made in Kansas, like a tribute to Owen Hart. In January of the 2000 it gained the WCW World Heavyweight Championship but because of discords with Kevin Sullivan, Chris Benoit left to the company, giving its title in the process. The same rare Benoit time recognizes east title. World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment [ to publish ] 2000 [ to publish ] Two weeks after to have obtained their settlement of the WCW, Benoit, Malenko, Saturn and Guerrero laid way in the WWF making debut in RAW, leaving the public and attacking the New Age Outlaws. They denominated “The Radicalz”. The group became Heel, Benoit was surrounded in a feudo against Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle, and in April of the 2000, the Intercontinental WWF Championship in Wrestlemania 16 gained their first championship (Wrestlemania 2000). By the great amount of times that Benoit defended its title, one became the peleador Intercontinental Champion of the history of the WWE. It maintained a remarkable record in which it was of the 2000 with The Rock (that was WWE Champion in that time). Their curriculum was ripened with the fact that Benoit would become the one in charge by order of Shane McMahon to remove to the Rock, doing it to surrender. In fact Benoit gained the Championship of the WWF twice, but in both opportunities commissioner Mick Foley revoked the decision and recommenced match because Benoit made trap. 2001 [ to publish ] Benoit continued with the Intercontinental Championship until the Royal Rumble of the 2001 where it as opposed to lost it Chris Jericho in ladder Match or fight of stairs. It became against the Radicalz and was expelled from the group. Only weeks later a confrontation with Kurt Angle would begin, about that was the best technical fighter of the world, which would take them to a fight in Wrestlemania 17. They had a great fight level with canvas and of brilliant llaveo, but Angle would gain this fight doing trap, which began a long confrontation among them that was in a great variety from matches between both, among them one of “ultimate submission” in the Blacklash, where Benoit I win 4-3. What it took them to have a fight of 3 falls in the Judgment Day, where the Olympic medals of Angle were suspended on Ring, since Benoit had robbed them putting them in its trousers weeks before. Angle won with the intervention of Christian and Edge. In May they were put in cage Benoit a steel and Steve Austin and when Benoit was about to to gain Steve Austin closed the door to him in the face, allowing that Angle scaled the cage and won. In May of the 2001, Benoit formed an equipment with Chris Jericho, to defeat to Triple H and Steve Austin, in a fight by the WWE World Tag Team Championship. In the same week Vince McMahon it put it in a TLC Match in Smackdown! against Edge & Christian, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz. This one was the first TLC that was shown in television, which possibly gained Jericho with Benoit. They retained the titles by a month before losing it against The Dudley Boyz In the King of the Ring, Benoit was put in a triple threat by the WWE Championship against Jericho and Steve Austin. In the fight, Benoit fell on its neck, which was in an operation in June of the 2001. It broke a disc, whose fragments became engraved in their spine. The injury required a surgery of spinal fusion, that maintained to moved away Benoit of Ring by all the rest of the 2001. This injury is shown in the warnings before any PPV, DVD or simple episode of Raw or SD in the world-wide television. 2002 [ to publish ] During the first “WWE Draft”, Benoit was chosen by Vince McMahon to be part of SmackDown, in spite of being injured then. Nevertheless, when it returned, it did it like member of RAW. In his first fight of return, Benoit became heel and a feudo with Steve Austin was united with Eddie Guerrero, initiating. Benoit and Guerrero were moved to SmackDown, having taken Benoit with himself their new Intercontinental Championship. Rob Van Dam defeated to Benoit in SummerSlam 2002, giving back the championship to RAW. In October of the 2002, Benoit and Kurt Angle they were crowned like first in gaining the WWE Tag Team Championship in nonMercy 2002, championship just created by manager of the program Stephanie McMahon. Both faced several times the Soldiers by the titles in pair. After returning to SmackDown! in October, it was crowned like the first winner of the Championship in Pairs of the WWE, along with Kurt Angle. Both became phase again, after attacking the Soldiers. Both they formed a very good combination, but they could not stay for a long time like equipment.