12-31-2017, 12:15 PM | #1 |
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Wrestlers you always wanted to win the big title
We had a similar thread, I know, but it was BEST wrestlers to never win the title. Here I just want us to talk about people you wanted to win the title.
So Scott Hall obviously, love Scott Hall. Also, Ken Shamrock. Thought he should get the strap after winning KotR. Was very glad when Benoit won the world championship. |
12-31-2017, 12:18 PM | #2 |
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Wait, has Christian ever won it?
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12-31-2017, 12:37 PM | #3 |
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Yeah Christian won it a couple times.
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12-31-2017, 12:37 PM | #4 |
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Piper in 84 WWF
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12-31-2017, 12:43 PM | #5 |
I am the cheese
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Everyone wins it now. Means nothing.
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12-31-2017, 12:45 PM | #6 |
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Jerry The King Lawler in 2011.
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12-31-2017, 12:50 PM | #7 |
Large Marge sent me
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Big Boss Man. Blue, not the swat team. I remember watching the 92 Rumble (maybe the best Rumble ever) as a 9 year old and Boss man is 1 on 1 in the ring with Ric Flair. I'm thinking he's totes gonna win the Rumble. Then he charges Flair and misses, falling over the top rope. So pissed.
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12-31-2017, 12:58 PM | #8 |
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12-31-2017, 12:59 PM | #9 |
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But yeah, if Jack Swagger could win it, it doesn't mean shit.
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12-31-2017, 01:16 PM | #10 |
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Kevin Federline
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12-31-2017, 01:21 PM | #11 |
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12-31-2017, 01:27 PM | #12 |
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realistically speaking (as in people who actually had a shot). I'm only doing WWE for this one
Piper in the mid 80's like already said Dibiase in the late 80's (Andre handing him the title does not count) Luger in 93. RVD in 2001 |
12-31-2017, 01:28 PM | #13 |
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Christian was never WWE Champion although he had two reigns as the World Heavyweight Champion as part of the Smackdown roster. Being a world champion on the flagship show does seem to carry more weightage if you were to believe CM Punk.
P. S. I would love to see Kofi Kingston win the big one. |
12-31-2017, 01:58 PM | #14 |
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AJ Styles, Christian, Jeff Hardy, Swagger, Khali, JBL, Bray Wyatt, Mark Henry, Ziggler, Eddie Guerrero, Jinder Mahal etc. have exclusively been world champions on the B Show.
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12-31-2017, 02:23 PM | #15 |
Stickman
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Mr Perfect.
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12-31-2017, 02:27 PM | #16 |
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12-31-2017, 02:28 PM | #17 |
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By the way, what the hell is wrong with WWE? Why is Joe Hennig not Joe Hennig but some stupid shit like Curtis Axel?
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12-31-2017, 02:36 PM | #18 |
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X Pac.
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12-31-2017, 02:57 PM | #19 |
Resident drug enabler
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12-31-2017, 03:13 PM | #20 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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12-31-2017, 04:49 PM | #21 |
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Answer is the same as the "best to never win" thread.
Regal. |
12-31-2017, 05:39 PM | #22 |
Fire up Chips!
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Big John Studd never won the WWF Championship and that ain't right
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12-31-2017, 06:02 PM | #23 | |
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Charlotte was the same but also as part of WWE's habit of not wanting to give female wrestlers last names. Once she "earned" the Flair name, they started to mention her full name more in shows. |
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12-31-2017, 08:51 PM | #24 |
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How is he going to earn it as a jobber.
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12-31-2017, 09:02 PM | #25 |
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Paul Orndorff in 1986 WWF
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12-31-2017, 09:03 PM | #26 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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He jobbed to Kofi Kingston for the Madden Championship baaaaaaaybe
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12-31-2017, 09:05 PM | #27 |
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Marty Jannetty.
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12-31-2017, 09:32 PM | #28 |
Rigged from the start
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01-01-2018, 03:58 AM | #29 |
b/c 5 is better than 4
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Owen at Summerslam 1994
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01-01-2018, 05:35 AM | #30 |
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Hassan would have been an amazing heel champion.
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01-01-2018, 07:26 AM | #31 |
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Too bad they went "full terrorist" with him. Everybody knows you don't go "full terrorist".
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01-01-2018, 09:51 AM | #32 |
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Agree with shouts for Dibiase, Mr Perfect and Bossman. They were all great characters and would have been cool to see as champions. Disagree with Piper. He didn't play ball and would constantly have double count outs and brawls to the back to avoid losses. Same with Hacksaw, although he was definitely over enough.
More modern ones are definitely harder because of how quickly belts got thrown about, but one I would go for would be Goldust. Think his character work was great as a heel and I think a feud with Austin (if he had agreed to it as planned) would have been great. Also, I know he got it, but a Kane monster run when he first burst onto the scene would have been great to see. 24 hour reign was their first mistake with him. Highly controversial one, but I would have marked out for a Test win against a bully champion HHH back in the day too. |
01-01-2018, 11:42 AM | #33 |
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Hornswoggle
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01-01-2018, 11:45 AM | #34 |
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Christian should have held it earlier, longer, and for more times.
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01-01-2018, 01:00 PM | #35 |
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HBK post return and elimination chamber win.
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01-01-2018, 03:26 PM | #36 |
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As has already been said definitely Razor Ramon.
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01-01-2018, 03:26 PM | #37 |
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Also as a kid always wanted Tatanka to win the big one.
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01-01-2018, 03:28 PM | #38 |
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01-01-2018, 03:54 PM | #39 |
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Yeah, exactly. They pissed off the largest Muslim community in the USA, Dearborn, Michigan who protested to UPN or CW or whoever aired SD! at the time and then the network pressured WWE into taking him off-screen. He had an official write-off altogether later in July at the PPV that month where 'Taker basically destroyed him.
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01-01-2018, 04:51 PM | #40 |
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