Championship reigns are a bit like children, it takes the whole village to raise them.

Fortunately, there have been many instances of both the wrestlers and the bookers ensuring

a title reign proves to be something special.

But why everyone remembers the most, of course, is ultimately the final act, if acts

one and two are phenomenal, but act three is a stinker, everything that came before

the conclusion is marred by association.

With that in mind, I'm Adam Wilborn from Whatculture and these are ten great wrestling

world title reigns, marred by bad endings.

10.

Brock Lesnar

In arguably one of the greatest rookie years in WWE history, a hulking but ugly baby-faced

Brock Lesnar threw legends around the ring, like they were haystacks at his family's

south the cold of form.

At some a slam in 2002, the University of Minnesota wrestling stand out crushed the rock

to become WWE champion and as champion, the next big thing had a great if rather soap

opera-ish feud with the undertaker, and then after an epic hell in a cell victory, the future

UFC heavyweight champion was challenged by the big show, whose popularity had been in

freefall since his demotion to the midcard and OVW at one point in the year 2000.

Cashing in on a real-life rib injury, WWE bought Paul Heyman to screw Lesnar and for

show to take advantage and steal the title.

Just three months after his epic reign began, the super rookie was a former champion, it

was all very disappointing in a year where Hot Potato was played with the top title far

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