10 Awesome Ways Wrestling Champions Elevated Their Titles - John Cena's US Title Open Challenge! Chris Jericho! NXT's Four Horsewomen! Crash Holly's 24/7 Hardcore Title?!
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🗓️ 24 June 2020
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Open challenges, nicknames, grand larceny, and everything in between. Andy Murray presents 10 Awesome Ways Wrestling Champions Elevated Their Titles.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's title to the IWGP heavyweight title, |
| 0:35.0 | think about every great championship in wrestling today. |
| 0:39.0 | What's the one thing they all have in common? |
| 0:41.0 | The right champion doing the right things to get themselves and the belt over. |
| 0:46.7 | Now for some that means a simple blend of banger matches, great promos and great character work, |
| 0:52.2 | but for others it's something a little less |
| 0:54.8 | traditional this list is a celebration of just that these men and women went |
| 1:00.0 | outside the box they put in that little extra bit of effort and in the end they came out looking golden. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm Andy for what culture wrestling and here are ten awesome ways that wrestling champions elevated titles. |
| 1:13.0 | Number 10, John Cina, with the US title Open Challenge series. |
| 1:18.0 | Cina took the US title from Rousseff at WrestleMania 31. |
| 1:22.0 | It was a controversial decision because the Bulgarian brute was still on the rise, |
| 1:26.0 | leading to the audience lambasting WWE for what they thought was another scene up burial. |
| 1:31.5 | But the ensuing rain, well, it was pretty damn awesome. |
| 1:34.8 | Through his Open Challenge series, Cina rebuilt the belt's prestige by inviting intrigue, |
| 1:40.2 | opening windows for guys like Sammy Zane and through good old-fashioned work rate. |
| 1:45.0 | It worked and Cina was killing it. |
| 1:48.0 | Now most people would point to the Kevin Owens feud as the Run's Peak and well they'd be right. I mean sure the belt wasn't actually on the line the night that Kio actually beat Cina but hey man the rivalry immediately got Owens over as a big deal on the main roster regardless of the final outcome. So |
| 2:05.3 | Cina, so often maligned for not making new stars, had done just that. |
| 2:10.1 | Number nine, Lou Fez, the Traveling Champion. Part of what made the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship the top belt in the sport was the concept of the Traveling Champion. With whoever was holding the strap taking it from |
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