During a promo on the May 27, 1999 edition of
WCW Thunder, Konnan specifically thanked
Rey Mysterio Jr.,
Billy Kidman, and
Kevin Nash for watching his back. Mentioning that some people thought the young WCW stars weren't "good enough," Konnan stated they were "filthy animals" and were out for new and old blood. The Filthy Animals were officially named so on the August 16, 1999 edition of
WCW Monday Nitro, as
Mean Gene Okerlund interviewed Billy Kidman in the ring, with Kidman stating a new group of friends (Kidman, Rey Mysterio Jr., Eddie Guerrero, and Konnan) were "just a bunch of filthy animals" who hung out both on and off camera. In the weeks prior, the group had started teaming to combat the
Dead Pool stable of Vampiro, Raven, and the Insane Clown Posse. They later mainly feuded with
The Revolution, which was composed of
Chris Benoit,
Dean Malenko,
Shane Douglas and
Perry Saturn.
Eddie Guerrero invented some of his more memorable
shtick while with the Filthy Animals, including his famous fake chair knock out (he would knock his opponent out with a chair while the referee was distracted, then drape the chair on their unconscious body, and pretend to be knocked out himself, usually with the referee turning around just in time to see his opponent waking up wondering why they were holding a chair and getting disqualified. Eddie would, from time to time, open one eye to peek or wink to the crowd and gesture them to "shhhh!"). ==Members==