8. Chris Benoit
While Benoit’s legacy will always be tainted due to the grizzly murders of his family before he took his own life, his career was certainly a great one in both WCW and WWE. You could even say he had a good ECW run, and some even talk up his NJPW career. However, if we’re talking just WCW and WWE time, he certainly had a special career.
He was a five-time United States Champion (three times in WWE), a four-time Intercontinental Champion, a three-time WCW Television Champion, a WCW World Champion, a two-time WCW Tag Team Champion, a four-time WWE Tag Team Champion, and a WWE World Heavyweight Champion. He was also a Royal Rumble winner in his career.
He even won the World Heavyweight title at a WrestleMania event and held it for a while. Clearly, Benoit had a great career, but it was certainly not easy. He was quite small and was certainly not a guy WWE would push as much. He managed to have a Hall of Fame career. However, he may never go in after what happened with his family. It has been almost confirmed that he had a brain issue called CTE, which has become a popular problem among many athletes. Despite this, he has been blackballed from WWE.
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