10 of WCW's dirtiest scandals.

How in the world could then-WCW President Jim Herd let the WCW World Championship wind up on WWE television?
How in the world could then-WCW President Jim Herd let the WCW World Championship wind up on WWE television?

Scandal #5: Backstage executive Kevin Sullivan books his own divorce.

Kevin Sullivan and Chris Benoit were rivals on Television and backstage.
Kevin Sullivan and Chris Benoit were rivals on Television and backstage.

Chris Benoit's sad, miserably tragic end often overshadows much of his career. One thing that is often overlooked is how he essentially stole another man's wife in WCW.

At the time, Kevin Sullivan was an active wrestler, but his main job was working backstage as one of the head bookers. Sullivan would decide which wrestlers to push and what storyline angles they should be involved in. When Sullivan was given the task of getting over the insanely talented but somewhat off-putting Chris Benoit, he decided to take it personally--literally.

Kevin Sullivan's wife Nancy had been a fixture in WCW for years, acting as a manager/valet known as Woman. She managed Doom while they feuded with the Steiner brothers and would go on to be Kevin Sullivan's valet. Sullivan wrote an angle where Chris Benoit would lure away his wife Nancy. Since these were the days of kayfabe, he insisted that Nancy and Benoit travel together, eat together, and try to put out the illusion that they were a legitimate couple.

However, love takes strange turns, and the storyline became real life. Nancy Sullivan divorced Kevin Sullivan and married Chris Benoit. Kevin Sullivan responded by burying Benoit on the card, often having him put over younger talent in squash matches, such as when Benoit lost to The Giant (The Big Show) in mere seconds. WCW officials didn't lift a finger to help Benoit, as they thought he had it coming for breaking up Sullivan's marriage. On the other hand, most of the locker room blamed Sullivan for putting his wife into that spot in the first place.

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