15 WWE & WCW Superstars who walked out

#6, #5, #4 & #3 WCW to WWE - The Radicalz

The Radicalz

To many, myself included, this was the final nail in the coffin for WCW. The Monday Night Wars had seen a lot of twists and turns but this one was something else.

Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn were four of the best and most underutilized workers that WCW had but were being ignored for the old-timers. They were repeatedly shoved around and misused, with Kevin Sullivan making it clear that he wasn’t going to give them the booking they deserved (especially given how he and Benoit hated each other).

So all four men demanded their releases, which they were granted. WCW's loss would be WWE's gain.

The January 31st, 2000 episode of WWE RAW opened shockingly, with these four men showing up in the front row and soon becoming focal points of a big feud with DX and the various faces of the time. It boosted all four to a new level of success and cost WCW dearly, who lost four supremely talented guys at a time where they could have massively benefited from them.

While Saturn and Malenko would only go on to have some mid-card success within WWE, Guerrero and Benoit would go on to reach the upper echelons of the company, cementing their name in history as two of the greatest to lace a pair of boots.