10 Real-Life Dramas That Made It To Wrestling TV
7. Woman Trouble
Kevin Sullivan was accused of 'booking his own divorce', when a 1996 rivalry he scripted with Chris Benoit took relations between the Horseman and Sullivan's then-wife Nancy from the fantasy of WCW television to a very real life (and ultimately fatal) relationship.
Initially representing warring factions The Dungeon of Doom and The Four Horsemen respectively, Sullivan and Benoit clashed for well over a year on television and pay-per-view. Tensions were heightened when 'The Crippler' began having the planned 'affair' with Sullivan's wife and valet Woman, but insistence by Sullivan to sell the angle as real called for the two to be together in public as often as possible, and love predictably blossomed for the pair.
It became a deeply contentious issue amongst the wrestlers themselves, but the two were engaged shortly after the quickie Sullivan divorce.
Remarkably, the feud carried on on television until Benoit would 'retire' Sullivan at the July's Great American Bash pay-per-view in 1997.
Despite the professionalism in matches, relations were predictably strained between the two afterwards. Though already planning to leave WCW in late-1999, a behind-the-scenes balance of power shift back to Sullivan around that time crystalised the decision for Benoit.