[DBizzle]

Anyone here remember the series of 7 matches these guys had ... I really enjoyed them. I believe this was only a qualifier for some mid-card title. (Back when they used to book titles with some worth.) Anyways, what did you guys think of this? Did you think it was a good idea? Pointless? Sound off ....

 

[JuviJuiceIsLoose]

I think it was a great idea and it produced some great matches. Benoit and Booker had some great chemistry. They were young, hungry, and trying to breakout.

I think the Booking of the series could have been better near the end. Having Bret Hart randomly attack Booker to try to get Benoit to join the NWO was pointless. They did it just so they could have a match on PPV.


I also would've had Benoit beat Booker in the series and go on to beat Finlay for the Title.

They should have put a belt on Benoit way before they actually did.

Booker won the TV Title 6 times, I don't think it would've hurt him to lose out to Benoit at all.

 

[BrosOfDestruction]

Yeah, they feuded over the TV title and had a great series of matches. Booker also said this was the high point of his in ring career in an interview in 03.

Booker pegged his 1998 feud with Benoit that culminated in a "best of seven"
series as the high point of his in-ring career.

"The best of seven is what made Booker T, as far as the fans seeing me as
someone who could be in a main event," he said. "They should put it out on tape
and make some of the young wrestlers watch it, because it was almost like
old-school wrestling. There was no babyface, no heel, just two guys who went
out and wrestled hard. There was some question, too, in the company, as to
whether we could go out and do seven matches, but each week, it turned out the
ratings were higher than last week. It was like, it didn’t matter if they
were usually watching ‘Nitro’ or ‘Raw.’ They wanted to see what would
happen next with Booker T and Benoit."

They had the same best of 7 series over the US title in late 05 until Booker got injured.

 

[YunisTaker]

Amazing chemistry right there. Well I'm not surprised when these guys are involved. Booker is a very good wrestler and Benoit was just phenomenal.

 

[Yeah1993]

Yeah, it was a really good series. They actually had like a dozen matches in 1998 and they were all good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8VPk-n09Y

Here's the first match of seven, and the uploader has them all up on there.

 

[guru of wrestling]

Yes both of there best of 7 matches were great

 

[sesel]

I wish I could find download links for this series. The matches were just awesome

 

[Patrick Bateman]

reminds me of the legendary ziggler vs kingston series.

 

[sesel]

I think it had more than seven matches

 

[Emperor Palpatine]

Only liked one of their matches. Not just from either of their best of 7 series (WCW and WWE), but in general. I think it was the final one from the 7 series in WCW that I liked the most. Definitely one of the WCW matches anyway. Best thing about the WWE series is that Orton filled in for an injured Booker, and we got some AMAZING Benoit/Orton matches instead. Hated the chemistry between Benoit/Booker, though I think Booker is utter shit anyway so I'm not a fan of his chemistry with anyone really lol.

 

[Issues_Sunshyne]

Yeah, they feuded over the TV title and had a great series of matches. Booker also said this was the high point of his in ring career in an interview in 03.




They had the same best of 7 series over the US title in late 05 until Booker got injured.

I remember at the time thinking that they did this in WCW. Was it ever mentioned on WWE at the time of their second series of 7?