Like many of the era, Dean Malenko comes from a great wrestling family, and his father Boris Malenko was a legend responsible for training the likes of Demolition Ax, Gangrel and X-Pac. In the early nineties, Dean formed a tag team with his brother Joe who many say to have been an even better wrestler, but only wrestled occassionaly. Dean Malenko was one of the cornerstones of WCWs Cruiserweight division in the mid-nineties and had classic matches with the likes of Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho. Towards the end of the decade, he was part of a group of disgruntled WCW wrestlers seeking a way out and along with Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Chris Benoit, jumped to WWF as part of The Radicalz. While in WWF he didnt go on to some of the success his Radicalz teammates did, but for the few years he remained an active wrestler he put on some of the most interesting technical matches anywhere in the world. He captured the WWF Lightheavyweight Championship on two occassions, granting it a level of prestige it never really had before. In 2001, Dean Malenko quitely retired and settled into a road agent position which he has held since. Every now and then he makes an appearance on WWE TV often backstage breaking up brawls between wrestlers but occasionally hell get a bit more of a spotlight, such as alongside other former Four Horsemen at Ric Flairs retirement celebration.
