Scott's Blog of Doom

Something I would like your opinion on: Given that it's been revealed after the fact that Kevin Sullivan and company, were planning on Chris Benoit only having the WCW World Championship belt for a short time, due to Sullivan wanting to get the belt on Sid ASAP and have Sid basically beat everyone in WCW in order to build up Sid Vs Golberg once Golberg came back from his injury, why couldn't they have done the same with Benoit?
They could have had Benoit as the big heal champion, complete with dissolving the NWO and bringing back the Four Horsemen with Flair as Benoit's manager and Malenko/Guerrero/Saturn as the other members of the Horsemen. Flair as a manager could have negated the issue of Benoit needing someone to do his interviews for him and I'm pretty sure Benoit/Golberg could have made for a decent enough feud to keep the company going in 2000.
Have Hogan, Nash, Hall, Sid, Jarret lose to Benoit to get him over as champion and maybe even go the "retirement" angle of Benoit "crippling" them after he beats them, to get them off canvas in the event they threw a hissy fit after losing. Not to mention pushing Booker T and Rey Mysterio Jr. as challengers as well. And since Benoit and Golberg, IIRC, had never fought before, there would be some nice hype for that dream match of sorts.
Given everything that happened, Benoit as the company's top heel could have been gold. Same with the return of the Four Horsemen as uber-heels, as they would have had WAY more credibility than a third-rate retred of the New World Order. Granted, given how things were at the time when Benoit won the belt, you'd have to do some major league cosmic reset button pushing to move things into alignment, but it would have worked out quite well for them and kept WCW relevant.

 

The thing is, the damage was done.  There was nothing they were going to be able to do that was going to undo what happened in 1999, and by the end of the year the company was dead no matter what anyway, so it’s all rather pointless to speculate about.  Benoit in a promotion with Kevin Sullivan as booker was never going to get a fair chance as champion.  Frankly at that point it wouldn’t have been fair to him to put that on his shoulders anyway.