Dean Malenko

Roster
 1-Defeating Jushin Liger in a 2 out of 3 falls to become
 2-Defeating Billy Kidman to become a 2 time CW champion
 3-Shaking hands with Rey Misterio Jr and turning babyface

## ECW(1995)

Dean Malenko debuted at Hardcore TV 3 defeating Rey Misterio Jr, they had another match at Return of the Funker which ended in a 30 minute time limit draw in one of the best early ECW matches which got Malenko signed to WCW. Being WCW bound, he had his last ECW match at Hardcore TV 6 where Rey finally defeated him in the main event

## WCW and Cruiserweight Champion(1995-1996)

Malenko debuted at Nitro 41 in a fatal 4 way match against Jerry Lynn, Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit which was won by Eddie. In July, CW champion Jushin Liger took notice of him as one of the greatest CWs in the world and challenged him to a match at Fall Brawl in the main event but due to the ongoing feud between HWs and CWs, the HWs crashed the match and ended it in a no contest, Malenko was involved in the wargames match between HWs and CWs at Starrcade where him, Liger, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Keiji Mutoh defeated Steven Regal, Bobby Eaton, Fit Finlay, DDP and Kensuke Sasaki

Malenko continued being built up as the new face of the cruiserweights getting matches against people like Hulk Hogan, Meng and Sting, at Nitro 95 Malenko defeated Liger's protege Psicosis to get another CW title shot, at Nitro 99 he turned heel as he beat up Liger right before their match and at Nitro 100 with an advantage he managed to defeat Liger 2-0 in a 2 out of 3 falls match to become Cruiserweight champion. At Great American Bash Malenko defended against Chris Jericho, Psicosis and Jushin Liger in an amazing fatal 4 way, he wanted to face the best of the best so he issued a challenge to his old ECW friend Rey Misterio Jr and at Hog Wild in a shocking turn of events, Rey shockingly defeated Malenko in his debut to become the Cruiserweight champion to a great pop. Malenko said Rey didn't deserve the belt and he'd do anything to take it off him, at Fall Brawl Rey still retained against him. They had a ladder match at Halloween Havoc and Rey remained as champion

## Hunt to become a 2 time CW champion(1997-1998)

Malenko started a short feud with Chris Jericho in early 1997 but Jericho defeated him at Superbrawl VII proclaiming himself "the new king of the cruiserweights", he got a title shot against Ultimo Dragon at Great American Bash but failed to defeat him, Rey would become NO1 contender again and Malenko would attack him, Rey promised that he would get back his ECW friend because this "new" Malenko wasn't his true self. At Bash at the Beach, Dragon defended his CW belt against Malenko and Rey in a triple threat, Rey tried not to go too hard on Malenko and Dragon retained the belt, Rey offered Malenko his hand which he accepted turning babyface. Malenko still had old thoughts of himself and started leaving during tag matches with Rey but they officially became coordinated again defeating Public Enemy at Road Wild, Rey challenged Malenko to finally defeat him clean at Fall Brawl and Malenko did exactly that getting a CW title shot. At Halloween Havoc Ultimo Dragon defeated Malenko but both men shook hands afterwards

Eric Bischoff wanted to spice things up at Starrcade and decided that the CW title match would be a triple threat decided by the winners of Jushin Liger and The Great Muta vs Malenko and Rey at WW3 but Liger and Muta used chairs and the match ended in a DQ, at Starrcade Dragon retained against Rey, Malenko, Muta and Liger in a ladder match.

Dragon left WCW so the title was vacated and put up for grabs in a tag team match between Rey and Malenko vs Muta and Liger but Rey was injured before the match and replaced by the returning Chris Jericho who pinned Muta to become the champion, due to Rey/Malenko/Liger/Muta getting constant CW title matches, Ric Flair said they wouldn't have anymore for 2 months, when april came Malenko wanted to face Chris Jericho who answered with a codebreaker and proclaiming he was the king of the CWs, at Slamboree Billy Kidman attacked Malenko and took his spot in the match but failed to defeat Jericho

At Great American Bash Malenko returned as a masked man winning an 8 men battle royal to become NO1 contender, he unmasked and beat the hell out of Jericho, at Road Wild Kidman attacked Malenko and took his spot again but this time managed to defeat Jericho to become CW champion. Due to these constant attacks, Malenko joined NWO Wolfpac in the NWO Civil Wars. They won the wars and got all the title shots at Starrcade, Malenko defeated Chris Benoit to become the CW NO1 contender and at Starrcade 1998 after almost 2 years he defeated Billy Kidman to become a 2 time champion

## Future Shock(1999-)

Malenko turned heel along with all of Wolfpac against DDP but a month later during Scott Hall's feud against Bret Hart, Curt Hennig, Malenko and Sting turned babyface and beat up Hall. He was put in a tag team tournament with Scott Steiner as they had great chemistry together but Steiner would always beat him up after the match. At Uncensored, Scott no-showed his quarter finals match but as Malenko was getting beat up, he showed up, tagged in and won the match. A day later, Malenko lost the belt to Chavo Guerrero in an 8 men package and Scott Steiner helped Malenko backstage after the match. They found respect for each other as they managed to qualify for the finals against Kevin Nash and Alex Wright but Harlem Heat entered the match as a last minute addition and became tag team champions

On the day afterwards Future Shock defeated Harlem Heat for Scott but quickly lost the titles at Bash at the Beach back to Harlem Heat in a triple threat also involving Buff Bagwell and Sid Vicious

After 2 months, Future Shock became champions again beating Harlem Heat in an episode of Nitro

## Career history

### Face/heel turns

 Heel
 Face
 Heel
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## Championships and accomplishments

* World Championship Wrestling
* Cruiserweight Championship(2 times)
* WCW Tag Team Championships(2 times) - with Scott Steiner
* WCW Hardcore Championship(1 time)
* Match of the Year(1996) vs Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and The Great Muta in a fatal 4 way at Superbrawl 6