Chris Benoit enjoyed great success in his early years at WrestleMania, winning the Intercontinental Championship at his first Mania (2000) and capturing the World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of XX. He also defended his United States Championship at WrestleMania XXIII. Even in defeat, Benoit had a spectacular match with Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XIX, and he also participated in the first Money in the Bank ladder match at XXI in 2005.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
