I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY JINDER GOT THE WWE TITLE TO BEGIN WITH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SMARTER IF RANDY ORTON HELD THE TITLE FROM WRESTLEMANIA UNTIL NOVEMBER LOSING IT TO AJ STYLES
Every time Mabel’s name comes up, I feel a tinge of sadness. He was scheduled to appear along with Moe and Oscar on March 22, 2014 at Heroes and Legends 3 in Ft. Wayne, IN, but died a month and 4 days before the show. I did get to meet Mo and Oscar, but the experience will never be the same without Mabel being there.
no wade barrett? he was supposed to win MITB or EC or definitely something big in 2012 or so and start his journey to stardom, but an injury stopped him
Kennedy was about the time I decided, "I'm too old for this shit." Like, to me he's one of the most bush-league acts I've ever seen. Ohhh, he says his name twice! Yeah, this guy's a comedic genius. Couldn't work his way out of a wet paper bag, either.
Might be, but i really don't know at what point in wwe history she would've been right as champion. The champions from 95 to 2000 seem really right to me. It only misses Vader somewhere in between.
Muhammad Hassan was so over as a heel in that feud with Undertaker. He got so much heat especially due to what was going on around the time, so it worked, and people got worked. The heat got so intense to the point where the had to drop the ball on him. I wish he could’ve became WWE Champion.
Tito Santana actually defeated the undertaker back in 1991 eeewwww! Well atleast the undertaker was in exsperienced back then and atleast it wasn't a completely clean victory😆🤣
It wouldve been good but wwe in their infinite wisdom decided to a mock terrorist beat down of the undertaker and unfortunately with smackdown being taped couldnt predict real life things happening on the day of the show being aired
I honestly think the million dollar championship did more for DiBiase than the WWF championship ever could. The million dollar championship gave him something that is personal to him and really helped his gimmick. Plus, given WWF at the time, if he did win the world title, he probably would have dropped it to Hogan anyway
I tend to disagree..... The whole gimmick revolved around the idea that he could abuse his wealth and buy anything he wanted..... I know they did the angle with Andre, but for him to succeed in being champ thanks to his money would have rubber-stamped his character and put it over in a way that they never came close to doing. Aside from a throw-away title match vs Warrior on SNME, he never got a sniff after WM4 and although he remained an iconic character he was never booked as that much of a threat. Side note: The fact that he didn't win the 88 or 89 Rumble was absolutely criminal..... 88 would have been a great pre-WM4 push. Whereas a win in 89 would have rehabbed his character after coming up short for much of the previous year (particularly so seeing as they had angle where he bought #30 from Slick anyway but just didn't pull the trigger..... Ridiculously giving the honors to Big John Studd instead!) Considering how The MDM was Vinces dread gimmick, they really did half-ass it somewhat.... LOL; about the only thing he did successfully buy was that "wart-hog"(*) Sapphire. (*Jah bless, Jesse Ventura!)
@@airfixx_8952 that’s a fair enough opinion. I’m less surprised MDM didn’t win the 89 Royal Rumble. The WWF was notoriously a baby face promotion back then and it was the very first time they were doing the Rumble specifically on a Pay Per View. Plus, there was no title shot for a win back then so it really didn’t matter, MDM buying his place was enough heat alone for WWF back then, they weren’t as intense with heels as NWA etc I’m not saying that you’re wrong, these are just some of the reasons that I’m not surprised by the Rumble loss.
As a 28 year old I appriciate a good in ring worker more than anything but as a kid it was a completly different story. I had no idea who was a good or a bad wrestler but I sure knew who were the faces and heels. And as a kid,Viscera used to be in my nighmares. I didn't realize he was a slow wrestler or dangerous in the ring. All I knew was that I was scared of him and my eyes were glued to the tv when he would show up. A lot of people forget that this pro wrestlering thing in a lot of ways is made for kids and sometimes you have to look at things from that perspective.
Hassan was the hottest heel in wrestling in 2005. Unfortunately because of the London Bombings, the gimmick was scrapped and Hassan left the WWE. It was rumored that he was going to defeat Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship at Summmerslam which would have made him the youngest world champion in WWE history at 23, breaking Randy Orton's record.
What happened to Hassan was an absolute disgrace. He was made the scapegoat by WWE for their own failure to pull that segment from the show. He was just doing his job and playing the character that they told him to go out and play. He did absolutely nothing wrong, in fact he performed well as that heel character.
Imagine in a parallel line when Chyna won the wwf championship in '99 SummerSlam and the next monday replicated the fingerpoke of Doom and gave the title to Triple H, that would rise a nuclear heat
Shawn Michaels appeared on a Playgirl magazine, he even had the belt covering his crotch. Maybe *they were just not ready for an intergender world champion.
@@rickytpb2164 I think a victory over Trips would have worked or even Angle, Trips for story telling and Kurt simply because he could have made look a million quid.
@@rickytpb2164 prob going to be fueding HHH for a month band beat him than get beat bye randy Orten in a legend killer thing or Shawn because well,he Shawn the that screwed hart.
Had Perfect not gotten injured in the 90s, he would probably would have traded the belt back and forth with Bret. Imagine how amazing those matches would have been.
1999 could've been the year Chyna actually became WWF Champion, and gives me goosebumps just thinking about how close she was to actually accomplishing such a feat. I would have enjoyed a Chyna reign with the WWF Championship.
@@chriskay1449 You are right, and Austin would have never worked with a woman, after seeing what Working with Sable did to Marc Mero. DAMN sure wouldn't have laid down for the pin.
Having Vader terrorise WWE as champ from SSlam 96 until being taken out by the monster-slayer that was Taker at WM13 would have been so good, but 'something, something HBK'....
Vader should have been WWE Champion and should have been treated much better. But Shawn being a crybaby primadonna killed those plans. Not to mention getting arrested in Kuwait for hitting the reporter. Even then could have capitalized on that incident making him seem unstoppable. All I'm saying is Vader deserved a better run he might have stayed longer in the company if he had too
Yeah, at that time it wouldn't have worked but it would've been nice to see at some point, even if for a few months. She would've definitely done more for the WWE than Tessa Blanchard did for Impact Wrestling
@@gregmartin114 Yeah, the whole point of RTC breaking her neck was to give her a sense of vulnerability so they could move her into the women's division. But Chyna refused to ever sell the injury or the angle, and that was one of the breaking points with her and the company.
Dibiase, Piper and Perfect were result of Hogan being there, Luger should have been from Summerslam to WM X and other then in 1993 royal rumble did Hall even get a chance at the title?
DiBiase really doesn’t get the love he deserves, he was hella good in the ring and had incredible charisma. That laugh deserves a HOF spot all by itself. Unfortunately he suffered from the same condition everyone else did at the time, AKA he wasn’t Hulk Hogan.
Scott Hall should be on this list for sure. Both WCW and WWF wanted to make him champ but knew they couldn't due to his drinking problems. Huge shame that got in the way because when he was clean he was one of the best in the ring.
There is a segment on what looks like a Superstars taping where Cornett and Vince give Lex a chance to come out to make an entrance with the title. So the footage does exist and it's kind of sad.
LOL at the Chyna stuff. The idea Vince tried to talk her out of doing Playboy is insane. If he didn't want her to do it they wouldn't have given it the endless amount of publicity they did. And she was never seriously supposed to wrestle Austin at SummerSlam. She won the #1 contender spot on a live Raw and literally lost it 24 hours later when they taped the following week's show. It was just part of the angle building to the PPV where Austin knocked HHH out and put Chyna on top for the pin to screw HHH out of the title match.
If I'm honest I never really why everyone liked Ken Kennedy so much he was just another guy who was okay in the ring and had above standard muc skills 🤷♂️
I stopped watching WWE about 6 years ago. Then I found out Jinder, who I remember as a bottom of the card jobber, won the WWE Title. Let's just say I was confused and further confident in my decision to drop WWE.
They did that to appeal to india which is becoming big market for WWE those pajeets love thier wrestling and india will become big market for them and all wrestling companies in the future which why most of them trying to tap into that market
There are a couple of things that refute Chyna winning the belt. Fairly certain Austin didn't want to drop the belt to Triple H, which is why Mankind was added to the match and pinned Austin. If he didn't want to lose the belt to Triple H, I'm fairly certain he wouldn't have lost it to Chyna. There was also the time where Marc Mero was supposed to be set up with a program for Austin after his first title win, I believe, but Austin said that there's no way a feud with a guy that lost a match to a woman (Sable) would be believable...so again, I really doubt he would have been okay with Chyna winning even if it wouldn't be a clean win.
The fact Undertaker was injured makes me think that the week Kennedy lost the contract to Edge was the same week Kennedy would have become World Heavyweight Champion if he wasn't injured himself. It would have been Kennedy cashing in on Taker instead. Fuck that stings.
re: Luger, I've also heard hearsay over the years that he was _supposed_ to win the title at SummerSlam '93, hence the big celebration, but that some of the talent in the locker room was threatening a walkout if Lex went over. Dunno how true that is, but it would explain why they did such a big celebration for the non-title win.
To be fair, according to Bruce, Vince says, “I could see you with the belt” or some version of that when he’s talking to guys. That isn’t a promise to get it, just that there is a chance they could get a run
John Cena HHH Hulk Hogan Shawn Michaels Brett Hart All of which are 5x to 16x champions Besides Vince McMahons ego They are the reason alot of people didn't become WWE Champions Ryback , Wade Barrett , Booker T , TAZZ , Mr perfect , Vader , British bulldog , the patriot , Test , Umaga , Scott Steiner , Paul orndorff , Owen Hart , Cody Rhodes , Rick Rhoode , Jake Roberts and SEVERAL MORE superstars some of which were buried because wrestlers feared losing their "SPOT" to someone else
My understanding of WM4 is that they put the belt on Savage so he wouldn't leave WWF. Savage was supposed to win the IC title back but for whatever reason he didn't. Supposedly Ted sacrificed his title run for the greater good of the company. If this is true then Ted is a great dude.
Adam mentions the championship tournament at WrestleMania IV. Editors have 14 wrestlers and 11 matches to choose from; shows image of Bret Hart and Bad News Brown from a non-tournament match. Why?
There is actually footage of Lex Luger parading around with the WWF Title. I think I prefer the actual outcome of WM X, completing a story arc for Bret Hart against Yokozuna who cheated The Hitman out of the belt the year before.
You said Jericho has never been world champion before winning the undisputed title at Vengeance 2001, but that’s not true. Jericho won the WCW World title from the Rock at No Mercy 2 months prior. He dropped the title back to The Rock on Raw 15 days later though.
Rumor was Orton complained that Kennedy was unsafe , so they fired him and Edge got the spot , I dunno about the whole injuring thing tho... Andre The Giant , Lex Luger , British Bulldog , Rick Rude , Ricky Steamboat , Jerry Lawler(Miz /Cole Fued) ,Razor Ramon , Owen Hart
You're mixing things. Kennedy got fired because of Orton in 2009 (Apparently Kennedy dropped Orton on his head while doing a back suplex and then he complained to Vince about it), while Kennedy winning the briefcase to just drop it to Edge happened in 2007.
I never heard the Playboy angle wrinkle attached to Chyna's wwf title win. The way I've heard it, it was the same backstage politics that prevented Vader and Mabel.
@@chriskay1449 The original plan was for Stone Cold to drop the belt to Chyna at SummerSlam. Steve has said that when it was told to him that he was cool with it. hhh did some backstage politicking to get it changed because he was jealous that she would hold the belt BEFORE HIM and he wasn't having it.
@@chriskay1449 You're not calling me a liar. You're calling Stone Cold Steve Austin and then head booker Vince Russo liars. Plus the researchers at Whatculture and other channels like it.
I made Lex Luger MY WWF Champion in an EWR mod. I had him feuding with Yokozuna, but Yoko kept getting mad and his contract expired. Borga was my top heel. So I kept switching the title between the two. Went out of business in less than a year. I would throw Crush and Tatanka in the mix to have a different match. I was trying to push Crush, but the game basically said no. I had Undertaker holding up my IC division against Owen(face), Jeff Jarrett, and Papa Shango. My tag division focused on the Steiners, Smoking Gunn, King Kong Bundy/Bam Bam(with Ted DiBiase), and Big Bossman/Akeem. Bret, Razor, Diesel, 123 Kid, HBK, and Sid had also left due to morale issues. I blame Lex Luger solely for my simulated career in WWF ending like it did.
Now the question is, how many of the performers on this list do you think would have been booked as simply transitional champions? Tugboat, obviously, if you buy Pritchard's story of how it would've gone down, but who else?
5:18 I don't think Vince was serious about giving Chyna the WWE championship win if she didn't pose for playboy like didn't Shawn Michaels pose for playboy with the old wwe wing eagled chapionship belt covering his private parts and still ended up winning multiple singles championship then after ?
When Stone Cold was the "Ringmaster" he became the million dollar champ and held the million dollar belt during 1996 when Ted DiBiase was his manager when he was apart of the million dollar corporation. Razor Ramon was the biggest what if and let down imo when it came to superstars who never held the wwf championship belt that def should have. I was a huge fan of him and cant believe they never put the belt on him.
Am I the only one that actually thought Mabel was "Okay" in the ring? Like yeah he wasn't the best, but he's far more capable than people like Giant Gonazalez and Great Khali to an extent. He was also pretty charismatic if you asked me. But yeah they pushed the big man too fast and too hard too soon. RIP Big man.
I like how kurt angle agreed to let chris jericho take the chance. Imagine what would happen in thr future if that didnt happen. Bdw. Im shocked this is the 5000th video that was liked in my youtube account. 😐
It would have made almost no sense to make Tito Santana the world champion, when he had been jobbed out for the past two years at least. We are talking about someone who was pinned by the Barbarian at WM 6, Mr.Perfect in the IC tournament, the Warlord at SS 1990, the Mountie at WM 7, Papa Shango at SS 1992 and Shawn Michaels at WM 8.
"According to Chyna's former manager..." Okay, definitive proof that Chyna was never, ever in line for the WWF title. The Sheik Tugboat thing doesn't really make any sense, timeline-wise. There was no conflict in the Middle East until Sgt. Slaughter was long under contract. I also suspect that if they *did* go with Sheik Tugboat, he and Hogan wouldn't have been for the title and that Warrior would still be champion going into (and coming out of) Mania. The idea of King Mabel holding the WWF title is patently ridiculous and reeks of a million other "Vince promised me the title" bullshit stories. The Luger deal at the TV taping was only done to swerve people who read newsletters or got TV taping results in advance. It had nothing to do with any decision-making process--the decision had already been made by that point to go with Bret.
Trust me, putting a Woman as at the top of the mountain and as a WWE WORLD CHAMP will only make the Belt devaluation. So Chyna not winning the WWE Belt is just good
When Vince McMahon's music hits, always push your chest out, two hands palms facing forward as if asking what , head held high and straight and upper body Gyrating.
King Mable and Bad News Brown should of had a run as WWF Champion. Also The Million Dollar Man did defend that WWF title a few times at house shows as WWF Champion before being stripped by Jack Tunny. If Andre's three minute run as WWF champion counts so should Ted's reign which was for a few days.
Ok ima be the first out out everyone to break out of the pack and say ........."I accept Jinder Mahal as WWE Champion......" as crazy as it sounds. I honestly think he earned his place regardless of how it was executed.
Which is why I said "accept". Not "like" . On a nice note he did come back with a better bod and he did improve between the ropes alot. That I will give props for. Everything else was their fault. Like i said,how it was executed was bad but i am willing to say i accept him as a former WWE Champion all things consistered. I can't hate on anyone who turns a negative into a positive. And at least we can say McIntyre finally reached the summit as well.
@@Erwinpaul777 He isn't 100% Canadian you idiot. He is 100% Indian, who is actually born a Canadian citizen. Being born a citizen of a country, doesn't take away your ethnicity. He might not have be n born in Indian, but his parents damn sure were.
Definitely feel like Chyna should have won the title even if it was transitional like mankind or the Big Show because back in the day she was red hot at the time and would have been historic
The fact that Mr Perfect is not on this list is sad in 2 ways. Either A) He was never supposed to be WWE Champions, which is ridiculous or B) He was not on this list, which to me is wrong.
You forgot about Rikishi and including Shelton Benjamin and Sycho Sid and Scott Hall and John Morrison and Chris Benoit and Christian. Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett and Matt Hardy and Boogeyman and Kevin Nash and Santino Marella and Zack Ryder and Heath Slater and Rhyno. Evan Bourne and Ken Shamrock and RVD and Ryback and Finley. Chris Masters and Tyler Reks and Mike Knox and Snitsky.
This is a sticky subject as we know from the many wrestlers podcasts, that many wrestlers would leave a meeting with Vince and his cohorts with the impression that they would get the world title while infact(according to Bruce and JR) that was never promised to most. Maybe egos and being intimidated by Vince hearing what they wanted to hear.
No cap, angle winning at vengeance makes a lot more sense than Jericho winning. The triple H/ angle match up would’ve made more sense and probably would’ve been better than Y2J/triple h
To make the list you had to have actually been considered for a reign (or claim to have been considered for a reign, as Mabel did even though it's patently bullshit). Piper was never considered because a.) that's not how the WWF did their booking, and b.) how are you going to get him to do a job to get the belt off of him?
I CANNOT believe Vince seriously considered Tito for the strap ! I never particularly rated him , but OK he was a good worker and a solid mid carder, BUT by 92 he was way past his prime . I can't Imagine Tito as WWF champ in 1982 , never mind 92 !
There is a timeline where Mabel, not The Rock, is the first black WWF Champion. And that my friends is the darkest timeline.
We all know it should have been Mo .. Mo ..Mo
@@DerEliteBaum MO MO MO MO=$$$ championships he's over in our minds
Instead we had to debate for 2 decades wether there had ever been a black WWE champion
that felt like it was a lightskin/darkskin joke lol
Keep in mind. You have great wrestlers and then there's champion material.
I would die to exist in the timeline where Ted DiBiase and Chyna got the title
Instead, we exist in a timeline where Harvey Wippleman got the Women's title.
@@jp3813 and jinder got the wwe title
For reals, though! Both of them were so HOT in their respective times. They drew as much eyes as the champions.
And Hornswoggle the final "Cruiserweight Champion".
Dibiase yes. Chyna? No way!
I love how that "....and Jinder" was just thrown in there.
Jinder Should have never been wwe champion
You knew they were gonna. He is literally the most undeserving champion of all time
@@theexplainer2235 Sad that he can say that he was but Mr. Perfect, Roddy Piper and Rick Rude weren't.
I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY JINDER GOT THE WWE TITLE TO BEGIN WITH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SMARTER IF RANDY ORTON HELD THE TITLE FROM WRESTLEMANIA UNTIL NOVEMBER LOSING IT TO AJ STYLES
@@fro-zone2k except Jinder isn't Indian and he's heel so it was never gonna work. What a jobber.
We could've got a dominant WWE Champion placed on the history books if Vader became a WWE Champion.
Yeah but Shawn Michaels happened
@@jesseramirez520 And The Kliq & backstage politics
@@dicloniusgames I agree ☝️
Vader could have been one of the best heels ever.
@@grungil7570 he was the best heel at one point look at the pop ric flair got when he beat Vader or the crowd rioting when vader beat inoki
Every time Mabel’s name comes up, I feel a tinge of sadness. He was scheduled to appear along with Moe and Oscar on March 22, 2014 at Heroes and Legends 3 in Ft. Wayne, IN, but died a month and 4 days before the show. I did get to meet Mo and Oscar, but the experience will never be the same without Mabel being there.
no wade barrett? he was supposed to win MITB or EC or definitely something big in 2012 or so and start his journey to stardom, but an injury stopped him
he could have been a major star because he was big ,good in the ring and vince was backing him as well...
Sucked on the mic. Rest was there but so excruciating to listen to him. Lol
@@christopherstadig3475 do you really think that barrette was bad at mic? Than you really don't know what a good mic skills is
@@christopherstadig3475 Barrett was good on the mic. It was his best trait. That's why the made him the leader of the Nexus.
An injury didn’t stop wade barret , John Cenas Golden Shovel did
I don’t think one person thought Kennedy was the second coming of Stone Cold Steve Austin.
I felt he was more like The Rock.
Kennedy was about the time I decided, "I'm too old for this shit." Like, to me he's one of the most bush-league acts I've ever seen. Ohhh, he says his name twice! Yeah, this guy's a comedic genius. Couldn't work his way out of a wet paper bag, either.
when he was champ in impact it was so forgettable and boring....
hopefully LA Knight is
@@jackstraw4222 he was in impact?
Imagine if Chyna was champion at some point... that would’ve been so cool. She was genuinely so strong and really something else
Might be, but i really don't know at what point in wwe history she would've been right as champion. The champions from 95 to 2000 seem really right to me. It only misses Vader somewhere in between.
She would've been a terrible champ. You think Jinder Mahal was a bad champion? Chyna would've been ten times worse.
@@1981bigdee Chyna was ok as a worker for a woman.. The intergender stuff was not believable. It wouldn't have worked. She wasn't that over.
@@packpock4369 Everyone hated working with her, because you had to make 100% of the match up before. Nothing was improvised...
They could make Rhonda roushey win it if she ever returns Lol
Muhammad Hassan was so over as a heel in that feud with Undertaker. He got so much heat especially due to what was going on around the time, so it worked, and people got worked. The heat got so intense to the point where the had to drop the ball on him. I wish he could’ve became WWE Champion.
Tito Santana actually defeated the undertaker back in 1991 eeewwww! Well atleast the undertaker was in exsperienced back then and atleast it wasn't a completely clean victory😆🤣
Agreed a heel with a Heat Magnet is always suitable as a WWE Champion, he has potential but WWE brush him off due to controversies.
It wouldve been good but wwe in their infinite wisdom decided to a mock terrorist beat down of the undertaker and unfortunately with smackdown being taped couldnt predict real life things happening on the day of the show being aired
Unfortunately he was a victim of bad timing with 911 putting everything too on the nose
I feel bad because he was literally just doing his job and ended up the scapegoat.
I honestly think the million dollar championship did more for DiBiase than the WWF championship ever could. The million dollar championship gave him something that is personal to him and really helped his gimmick. Plus, given WWF at the time, if he did win the world title, he probably would have dropped it to Hogan anyway
Agreed. Not everyone needs the belt.
I tend to disagree..... The whole gimmick revolved around the idea that he could abuse his wealth and buy anything he wanted..... I know they did the angle with Andre, but for him to succeed in being champ thanks to his money would have rubber-stamped his character and put it over in a way that they never came close to doing. Aside from a throw-away title match vs Warrior on SNME, he never got a sniff after WM4 and although he remained an iconic character he was never booked as that much of a threat.
Side note: The fact that he didn't win the 88 or 89 Rumble was absolutely criminal..... 88 would have been a great pre-WM4 push. Whereas a win in 89 would have rehabbed his character after coming up short for much of the previous year (particularly so seeing as they had angle where he bought #30 from Slick anyway but just didn't pull the trigger..... Ridiculously giving the honors to Big John Studd instead!)
Considering how The MDM was Vinces dread gimmick, they really did half-ass it somewhat.... LOL; about the only thing he did successfully buy was that "wart-hog"(*) Sapphire.
(*Jah bless, Jesse Ventura!)
@@airfixx_8952 that’s a fair enough opinion. I’m less surprised MDM didn’t win the 89 Royal Rumble. The WWF was notoriously a baby face promotion back then and it was the very first time they were doing the Rumble specifically on a Pay Per View. Plus, there was no title shot for a win back then so it really didn’t matter, MDM buying his place was enough heat alone for WWF back then, they weren’t as intense with heels as NWA etc
I’m not saying that you’re wrong, these are just some of the reasons that I’m not surprised by the Rumble loss.
@@CTheRobot Agreed, Jake "the Snake" Roberts didn't need the belt to be as over as he was and neither did Roddy Piper.
I know right plus i CANT STAND HULK HOGAN!!
That sneeze and steak wrap line is so much more clever when you have the context of it
As a 28 year old I appriciate a good in ring worker more than anything but as a kid it was a completly different story. I had no idea who was a good or a bad wrestler but I sure knew who were the faces and heels. And as a kid,Viscera used to be in my nighmares. I didn't realize he was a slow wrestler or dangerous in the ring. All I knew was that I was scared of him and my eyes were glued to the tv when he would show up. A lot of people forget that this pro wrestlering thing in a lot of ways is made for kids and sometimes you have to look at things from that perspective.
Hassan was the hottest heel in wrestling in 2005. Unfortunately because of the London Bombings, the gimmick was scrapped and Hassan left the WWE. It was rumored that he was going to defeat Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship at Summmerslam which would have made him the youngest world champion in WWE history at 23, breaking Randy Orton's record.
@Rhyleigh Mackenzie what he didn't deserve
Definitely true. He was to go over the undertaker at the great American bash and beat Batista at summerslam 05
Bro that guy brought legit heat people were sending death threats to WWE even lmao loved that gimmick tbh
What happened to Hassan was an absolute disgrace. He was made the scapegoat by WWE for their own failure to pull that segment from the show. He was just doing his job and playing the character that they told him to go out and play. He did absolutely nothing wrong, in fact he performed well as that heel character.
Imagine in a parallel line when Chyna won the wwf championship in '99 SummerSlam and the next monday replicated the fingerpoke of Doom and gave the title to Triple H, that would rise a nuclear heat
Uh, I would hate that. Not in a "I wanna see HHH beaten up" way, but in a "this angle is stupid" sort of way.
That's the worst idea I've ever heard.
No.
@@krtzone this
Had Chyna stayed in the WWE longer, I could see her winning the WWE title. Maybe appearing in Playboy did ruin that opportunity for her.
Shawn Michaels appeared on a Playgirl magazine, he even had the belt covering his crotch. Maybe *they were just not ready for an intergender world champion.
Chyna winning the WWE title would’ve been awful. Who would she go over on? The Rock, Triple H, Kurt Angle, Stone Cold? Get real.
@@rickytpb2164 I think a victory over Trips would have worked or even Angle, Trips for story telling and Kurt simply because he could have made look a million quid.
@@rickytpb2164 prob going to be fueding HHH for a month band beat him than get beat bye randy Orten in a legend killer thing or Shawn because well,he Shawn the that screwed hart.
@@dogedakid6415 Clueless...... HBK was semi-retired at the time and Orton didn't debut until 3 years later.
*"THAT DAMN TED DIBIASI!!!"*
_- Cameron Grimes_
Mr. Perfect & Roddy Piper could've made great WWE Champions too....if their careers weren't in the Hulkamania Era.
Hulkamania sucked tho
@@Bruh-ys3sx it was the biggest thing of the 80’s
@@TheWinstonSlip All i saw was a buffed up dude who had a shit move set and a fucking weak ass leg drop as his finisher. Lmao
@@Bruh-ys3sx good one Marc
Had Perfect not gotten injured in the 90s, he would probably would have traded the belt back and forth with Bret. Imagine how amazing those matches would have been.
I remember reading Greg Valentine was supposed to win the title somewhere around '86, but Hogan was so popular that it was just scrapped.
He did win it from Backlund in 81. He held it for a month. But it isnt acknowledged.
No, that was never going to happen. The WWF pre-1997 was not in the business of quick title turnarounds.
@@joejoebrian1014 The belt was immediately held up and it was an angle that only took place in New York City.
@@pronkb000 true. But even if the belt was vacated, Bob won it back.
@@chrischar9428 Teaming with Brutus, i think
1999 could've been the year Chyna actually became WWF Champion, and gives me goosebumps just thinking about how close she was to actually accomplishing such a feat. I would have enjoyed a Chyna reign with the WWF Championship.
Makes ya wonder what else would have changed for her too
@@chriskay1449 You are right, and Austin would have never worked with a woman, after seeing what Working with Sable did to Marc Mero. DAMN sure wouldn't have laid down for the pin.
it would have been so stupid if they put the title on her, like actual brain dead move. Like santino winning the first mitb
Tito and DiBiase were both great workers and should have been WWF Champion at least once.
Where’s Ricky the Dragon Steamboat at?
Even if it was still just a transition between Michaels and Taker, choosing Vader to hold the title instead of Sid would have been so much better.
Having Vader terrorise WWE as champ from SSlam 96 until being taken out by the monster-slayer that was Taker at WM13 would have been so good, but 'something, something HBK'....
Vader should have been WWE Champion and should have been treated much better. But Shawn being a crybaby primadonna killed those plans. Not to mention getting arrested in Kuwait for hitting the reporter. Even then could have capitalized on that incident making him seem unstoppable.
All I'm saying is Vader deserved a better run he might have stayed longer in the company if he had too
I'm a huge Chyna mark. But it's confirmed by multiple people who worked in creative that Chyna was never going to be WWF champion.
Yeah, at that time it wouldn't have worked but it would've been nice to see at some point, even if for a few months. She would've definitely done more for the WWE than Tessa Blanchard did for Impact Wrestling
Russo, most likely would have made it so. Thank God it never happened, and I am a huge Chyna mark.
@@gregmartin114 Yeah, the whole point of RTC breaking her neck was to give her a sense of vulnerability so they could move her into the women's division. But Chyna refused to ever sell the injury or the angle, and that was one of the breaking points with her and the company.
Jake Roberts with his heel run in 91-92 would have been sick
Unfortunately, Ric Flair was big name at the time
Also wasn't angle never supposed to win at unforgiven 2001 but he did because thought would be something to celebrate after 9/11
"Going over like a sneeze in a steak wrap," is an amazing deep cut.
Ted Dibiase , Roddy Piper , Mr Perfect , Dusty Rhodes , Lex Luger and even Scott Hall should've been WWE Champions
Dibiase, Piper and Perfect were result of Hogan being there, Luger should have been from Summerslam to WM X and other then in 1993 royal rumble did Hall even get a chance at the title?
Bret Hart over Luger any day.
@@chasecowder8405 I'm fairly sure there was a razor vs bret WWF title match one royal rumble or something
@@gusbrent3827 yes i mentioned that it 1993
@@chasecowder8405 Oh yeah, I'm too high for this 😂
DiBiase really doesn’t get the love he deserves, he was hella good in the ring and had incredible charisma. That laugh deserves a HOF spot all by itself. Unfortunately he suffered from the same condition everyone else did at the time, AKA he wasn’t Hulk Hogan.
Scott Hall should be on this list for sure. Both WCW and WWF wanted to make him champ but knew they couldn't due to his drinking problems. Huge shame that got in the way because when he was clean he was one of the best in the ring.
There is a segment on what looks like a Superstars taping where Cornett and Vince give Lex a chance to come out to make an entrance with the title. So the footage does exist and it's kind of sad.
Talks about the WWF title tournament at Wrestlemania 4 while showing the last 2 in the Battle Royal before the tournament started .
Hassan getting the strap would've been CRAZY. Definitely one of the most over heels during my childhood fr
LOL at the Chyna stuff. The idea Vince tried to talk her out of doing Playboy is insane. If he didn't want her to do it they wouldn't have given it the endless amount of publicity they did. And she was never seriously supposed to wrestle Austin at SummerSlam. She won the #1 contender spot on a live Raw and literally lost it 24 hours later when they taped the following week's show. It was just part of the angle building to the PPV where Austin knocked HHH out and put Chyna on top for the pin to screw HHH out of the title match.
Dibiasi WAS WWF champion at one point but during a House Show but not recognized.
Vader got screwed and for Hasaan, it was poor timing.
I turned on notifications on just on the right time
If I'm honest I never really why everyone liked Ken Kennedy so much he was just another guy who was okay in the ring and had above standard muc skills 🤷♂️
So many boring wrestlers at the time, he briefly seemed to have a larger than life personality. But it wasn’t meant to be.
I WOULDVE LOVED TO SEE MR WONDERFUL PAUL ORNDORFF WITH THE BELT AND RICKY THE DRAGON STEAMBOAT!!!
I still recognize Ted Dibiase as an official champion....best storyline ever !
Shinsuke Nakamura and Samoa Joe should have been WWE Champion at least once by now. But Jinder held it instead.....
I stopped watching WWE about 6 years ago. Then I found out Jinder, who I remember as a bottom of the card jobber, won the WWE Title. Let's just say I was confused and further confident in my decision to drop WWE.
They did that to appeal to india which is becoming big market for WWE those pajeets love thier wrestling and india will become big market for them and all wrestling companies in the future which why most of them trying to tap into that market
There are a couple of things that refute Chyna winning the belt. Fairly certain Austin didn't want to drop the belt to Triple H, which is why Mankind was added to the match and pinned Austin. If he didn't want to lose the belt to Triple H, I'm fairly certain he wouldn't have lost it to Chyna. There was also the time where Marc Mero was supposed to be set up with a program for Austin after his first title win, I believe, but Austin said that there's no way a feud with a guy that lost a match to a woman (Sable) would be believable...so again, I really doubt he would have been okay with Chyna winning even if it wouldn't be a clean win.
Honorable Mentions: Ravishing Rick Rude and Jake The Snake Roberts
Why does it feel so wrong that Jake Roberts never held the world title?
Mabel 💀
As a world champion. Ouch
The fact Undertaker was injured makes me think that the week Kennedy lost the contract to Edge was the same week Kennedy would have become World Heavyweight Champion if he wasn't injured himself. It would have been Kennedy cashing in on Taker instead.
Fuck that stings.
11. Dil Wilkes (The Patriot)?
12. Mr. Perfect?
13. Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erick?
None of those guys were ever in consideration to win the title.
re: Luger, I've also heard hearsay over the years that he was _supposed_ to win the title at SummerSlam '93, hence the big celebration, but that some of the talent in the locker room was threatening a walkout if Lex went over. Dunno how true that is, but it would explain why they did such a big celebration for the non-title win.
To be fair, according to Bruce, Vince says, “I could see you with the belt” or some version of that when he’s talking to guys. That isn’t a promise to get it, just that there is a chance they could get a run
John Cena
HHH
Hulk Hogan
Shawn Michaels
Brett Hart
All of which are 5x to 16x champions
Besides Vince McMahons ego
They are the reason alot of people didn't become WWE Champions
Ryback , Wade Barrett , Booker T , TAZZ , Mr perfect , Vader , British bulldog , the patriot , Test , Umaga , Scott Steiner , Paul orndorff , Owen Hart , Cody Rhodes , Rick Rhoode , Jake Roberts and SEVERAL MORE superstars some of which were buried because wrestlers feared losing their "SPOT" to someone else
Vader vs China would have been mad 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I think that the Big Daddy V character would've been Nelson Frasier's best shot at the championship.
So many massive missed opportunities. For better or worse.
And Jinder.
My understanding of WM4 is that they put the belt on Savage so he wouldn't leave WWF. Savage was supposed to win the IC title back but for whatever reason he didn't. Supposedly Ted sacrificed his title run for the greater good of the company. If this is true then Ted is a great dude.
this channel is in my daily rotation.
Adam mentions the championship tournament at WrestleMania IV. Editors have 14 wrestlers and 11 matches to choose from; shows image of Bret Hart and Bad News Brown from a non-tournament match.
Why?
There is actually footage of Lex Luger parading around with the WWF Title. I think I prefer the actual outcome of WM X, completing a story arc for Bret Hart against Yokozuna who cheated The Hitman out of the belt the year before.
You said Jericho has never been world champion before winning the undisputed title at Vengeance 2001, but that’s not true. Jericho won the WCW World title from the Rock at No Mercy 2 months prior. He dropped the title back to The Rock on Raw 15 days later though.
I think there’s a big difference between “supposed to be” and possibly discussed as a potential idea...
Exactly.
Surprised Bad News Brown didnt make the list!
If you count Smackdown vs raw 2010's road to wrestlemania (Edge's one), Mr Kennedy was wwe champion
Top ten unrecognized title reigns. From people like Ted Dibiase and Antonio Inoki to the championship scramble matches
Rumor was Orton complained that Kennedy was unsafe , so they fired him and Edge got the spot , I dunno about the whole injuring thing tho...
Andre The Giant , Lex Luger , British Bulldog , Rick Rude , Ricky Steamboat , Jerry Lawler(Miz /Cole Fued) ,Razor Ramon , Owen Hart
You're mixing things. Kennedy got fired because of Orton in 2009 (Apparently Kennedy dropped Orton on his head while doing a back suplex and then he complained to Vince about it), while Kennedy winning the briefcase to just drop it to Edge happened in 2007.
I never heard the Playboy angle wrinkle attached to Chyna's wwf title win. The way I've heard it, it was the same backstage politics that prevented Vader and Mabel.
@@chriskay1449 The original plan was for Stone Cold to drop the belt to Chyna at SummerSlam. Steve has said that when it was told to him that he was cool with it. hhh did some backstage politicking to get it changed because he was jealous that she would hold the belt BEFORE HIM and he wasn't having it.
@@chriskay1449 You're not calling me a liar. You're calling Stone Cold Steve Austin and then head booker Vince Russo liars. Plus the researchers at Whatculture and other channels like it.
I made Lex Luger MY WWF Champion in an EWR mod. I had him feuding with Yokozuna, but Yoko kept getting mad and his contract expired. Borga was my top heel. So I kept switching the title between the two. Went out of business in less than a year. I would throw Crush and Tatanka in the mix to have a different match. I was trying to push Crush, but the game basically said no.
I had Undertaker holding up my IC division against Owen(face), Jeff Jarrett, and Papa Shango.
My tag division focused on the Steiners, Smoking Gunn, King Kong Bundy/Bam Bam(with Ted DiBiase), and Big Bossman/Akeem.
Bret, Razor, Diesel, 123 Kid, HBK, and Sid had also left due to morale issues.
I blame Lex Luger solely for my simulated career in WWF ending like it did.
Now the question is, how many of the performers on this list do you think would have been booked as simply transitional champions? Tugboat, obviously, if you buy Pritchard's story of how it would've gone down, but who else?
Perfect, piper, roberts, hall, bulldog?
The list is who was supposed to win the title. (With plans changing) Not who would you have liked to see win the title.
Honorable mention:
Scott Steiner twice
5:18 I don't think Vince was serious about giving Chyna the WWE championship win if she didn't pose for playboy like didn't Shawn Michaels pose for playboy with the old wwe wing eagled chapionship belt covering his private parts and still ended up winning multiple singles championship then after ?
Next up should be “10 wrestlers that were supposed to be in a program with the undertaker”
Who would you have along with Nailz and Razor Ramon?
@@deanduke4462 heidenrike, mordecai, and that one guy that had one promo on smack down or ecw and was never seen again on tv
When Stone Cold was the "Ringmaster" he became the million dollar champ and held the million dollar belt during 1996 when Ted DiBiase was his manager when he was apart of the million dollar corporation. Razor Ramon was the biggest what if and let down imo when it came to superstars who never held the wwf championship belt that def should have. I was a huge fan of him and cant believe they never put the belt on him.
Am I the only one that actually thought Mabel was "Okay" in the ring? Like yeah he wasn't the best, but he's far more capable than people like Giant Gonazalez and Great Khali to an extent. He was also pretty charismatic if you asked me. But yeah they pushed the big man too fast and too hard too soon. RIP Big man.
Mr. Kennedy had so much charisma that he jumped out your TV. But he was sloppy in-ring, that is why.
I remember wishing SO hard that Kennedy would be world champion. It did eventually happen in TNA, but that just wasn't the same.
I’d put Umaga in the list, he was a real monster.
I like how kurt angle agreed to let chris jericho take the chance. Imagine what would happen in thr future if that didnt happen.
Bdw. Im shocked this is the 5000th video that was liked in my youtube account. 😐
It would have made almost no sense to make Tito Santana the world champion, when he had been jobbed out for the past two years at least. We are talking about someone who was pinned by the Barbarian at WM 6, Mr.Perfect in the IC tournament, the Warlord at SS 1990, the Mountie at WM 7, Papa Shango at SS 1992 and Shawn Michaels at WM 8.
Angle is an absolute legend for doing that
"According to Chyna's former manager..." Okay, definitive proof that Chyna was never, ever in line for the WWF title.
The Sheik Tugboat thing doesn't really make any sense, timeline-wise. There was no conflict in the Middle East until Sgt. Slaughter was long under contract. I also suspect that if they *did* go with Sheik Tugboat, he and Hogan wouldn't have been for the title and that Warrior would still be champion going into (and coming out of) Mania.
The idea of King Mabel holding the WWF title is patently ridiculous and reeks of a million other "Vince promised me the title" bullshit stories.
The Luger deal at the TV taping was only done to swerve people who read newsletters or got TV taping results in advance. It had nothing to do with any decision-making process--the decision had already been made by that point to go with Bret.
Trust me, putting a Woman as at the top of the mountain and as a WWE WORLD CHAMP will only make the Belt devaluation. So Chyna not winning the WWE Belt is just good
Surprised William Regal's KOTR/GM run didn't make this list
Would have been SO awesome. Makes me so sad..... :(
When Vince McMahon's music hits, always push your chest out, two hands palms facing forward as if asking what , head held high and straight and upper body Gyrating.
Tugboat. Only the guy with one of the most expensive LJN prototype figures of all time.
King Mable and Bad News Brown should of had a run as WWF Champion. Also The Million Dollar Man did defend that WWF title a few times at house shows as WWF Champion before being stripped by Jack Tunny. If Andre's three minute run as WWF champion counts so should Ted's reign which was for a few days.
Ok ima be the first out out everyone to break out of the pack and say ........."I accept Jinder Mahal as WWE Champion......" as crazy as it sounds. I honestly think he earned his place regardless of how it was executed.
They only put title on him cause of a tour In India , the guys 100% Canadian 🙄
And lose to Nakamura. Cause he was red hot more than Jahal at the time.
Which is why I said "accept".
Not "like" .
On a nice note he did come back with a better bod and he did improve between the ropes alot. That I will give props for.
Everything else was their fault.
Like i said,how it was executed was bad but i am willing to say i accept him as a former WWE Champion all things consistered.
I can't hate on anyone who turns a negative into a positive.
And at least we can say McIntyre finally reached the summit as well.
@@Erwinpaul777 He isn't 100% Canadian you idiot. He is 100% Indian, who is actually born a Canadian citizen. Being born a citizen of a country, doesn't take away your ethnicity. He might not have be n born in Indian, but his parents damn sure were.
Jinder lost to AJ. It was gonna be him and Brock. I would of liked that better
Definitely feel like Chyna should have won the title even if it was transitional like mankind or the Big Show because back in the day she was red hot at the time and would have been historic
10:37 what the hell do they fool Alberto del Rio's head look like a block of ice, cinder block or something made of metal.
The fact that Mr Perfect is not on this list is sad in 2 ways. Either A) He was never supposed to be WWE Champions, which is ridiculous or B) He was not on this list, which to me is wrong.
Now please do a list of guys who SHOULDN'T have won the WWE Championship
You forgot about Rikishi and including Shelton Benjamin and Sycho Sid and Scott Hall and John Morrison and Chris Benoit and Christian. Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett and Matt Hardy and Boogeyman and Kevin Nash and Santino Marella and Zack Ryder and Heath Slater and Rhyno. Evan Bourne and Ken Shamrock and RVD and Ryback and Finley. Chris Masters and Tyler Reks and Mike Knox and Snitsky.
Chyna would have been amazing
Shelton Benjamin
I feel like 2008-09 could’ve been the time to push him as champion
To most of these people never got a WWE run but Jinder somehow did. Let that sink in for you
Sickening lol
This is a sticky subject as we know from the many wrestlers podcasts, that many wrestlers would leave a meeting with Vince and his cohorts with the impression that they would get the world title while infact(according to Bruce and JR) that was never promised to most. Maybe egos and being intimidated by Vince hearing what they wanted to hear.
No cap, angle winning at vengeance makes a lot more sense than Jericho winning. The triple H/ angle match up would’ve made more sense and probably would’ve been better than Y2J/triple h
How did Rowdy Roddy Piper, the one wrestler who Hogan never defeated, not make this list?
Of course he was good enough to win it, but he was never in line to win it... He also happily admitted he never needed it.
To make the list you had to have actually been considered for a reign (or claim to have been considered for a reign, as Mabel did even though it's patently bullshit). Piper was never considered because a.) that's not how the WWF did their booking, and b.) how are you going to get him to do a job to get the belt off of him?
I couldn't imagine Tugboat as WWF champion . Earthquake sure , but Tugboat ? No way.
Mr kennedy as the second coming of STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN LMAO 🤣🤣 you got to be joking 😅 I almost gave this a thumbs down for that silly comment
I CANNOT believe Vince seriously considered Tito for the strap ! I never particularly rated him , but OK he was a good worker and a solid mid carder, BUT by 92 he was way past his prime . I can't Imagine Tito as WWF champ in 1982 , never mind 92 !
9:40 "tired of being the top dog in North America only..."
Canada and Mexico are both part of North America dude.
I would do anything just to let Chyna win
Boys get to work make a time machine
Angle really has been pretty much everything iN WWE. I mean the guy was even Hardcore Champion at one point lol
Only thing he's missing that was possible for him is a Royal Rumble winner