10 Best WCW Storylines Ever

8. Booker T Battles Chris Benoit In A Best Of 7 Series

Best of seven series aren't done in wrestling that often. They are fun to watch, but they're rare. The reason companies probably don't do them is they can get repetitive to see the same teams wrestling that many times in a short period of time. However, WCW did it in 1998 and it was awesome to watch. From May 25, 1998 to the June 14, 1998 Great American Bash PPV, Booker T wrestled Chris Benoit in a best of seven series that produced seven very good matches. The matches took place on Nitro, Thunder, WCW Saturday Night and then it ended on PPV. They found a way to end every match in a creative way so it never felt too repetitive either. The purpose of the series was to elevate both guys. They were seen as rising stars that were popular with the fans, so they had these straight up wrestling matches. Benoit was up 3-1 in the series. Booker won two in a row to tie it up and then won the final match, which was the longest one at nearly 17 minutes. What the series of matches did was elevate both guys. It made them look like bigger stars, which is the whole point of it. After Booker won the 7th and final match at the 1998 GAB show, he beat Fit Finlay to become the TV Champion. It was the right call to put the title on him. It solidified him as a great singles wrestler after working in the Harlem Heat tag team for several years before that.