Chris Kanyon asked for his release from WCW Monday afternoon during a meeting with Bill Busch. Kanyon is upset with the way he's been used since returning from the "Ready to Rumble" filming on which he served as technical advisor.
Kanyon is expected to be granted the release within the next week. Kanyon was also upset over radio comments by Hulk Hogan last week that younger wrestlers such as Billy Kidman couldn't handle being main eventers. Hogan said Kidman couldn't headline a flea market. One source told Keller that Kanyon got into an argument with Hogan prior to last night's Nitro. Kanyon was upset over plans to have him job to The Wall on Nitro Monday. On the show, he didn't wrestle The Wall, but he did lose in just over one minute to Dustin Rhodes. It is possible, however, that he was originally scheduled to wrestle the Wall. It's known that Nitro had to be extensively rewritten after Scott Hall didn't appear at the show. Hall's return from Germany was delayed when airline officials refused to let him board the plane due to the condition he was in. Despite that fact, WCW went ahead with plans to include him in the main event at this Sunday's Superbrawl.

When Kanyon met with Bill Busch to request his release, Busch offered to give Kanyon a pay increase to $500,000 to cover the remaining 14 months of his contract. Things have gotten so bad in WCW that Kanyon turned down the offer and expects to receive his release by the weekend.

Dave Scherer said his sources in the WWF have told him the promotion will take Kanyon if he is released from WCW.