10 Wrestlers Who Threw Their Championships Away - Brock Lesnar! Medusa! Shane Douglas! Justin Credible?!
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The champions who decided, "This belt isn't worthy to hold up my trousers!" Simon Miller presents 10 Wrestlers Who Threw Their Championships Away...
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| 0:00.0 | If you get into professional wrestling, you want to become a champion. We hear that all the time, and I suppose it's true from both angles. It's a great personal achievement, and from a story point of view, your stock just rose, the fans are now going to see you as a bigger deal. What's weird is that sometimes folk just give these titles away. They decide it's too much of a burden, or there's something else they'd like to go and do, so that's what they go and do. It always feels like somebody should have beaten them, but no, and then other times they just throw them on the ground. Let's find out why. Number 10, Scott Hall's WCW TV title. I mean a lot of this is just World Championship Wrestling. Some of the stuff they did was nuts and remember, there's a |
| 0:38.1 | reason they died. It wasn't by, Fouke, they made some very mad decisions. You can see that at |
| 0:43.4 | Mayhem 1999 when it was meant to be Scott Hall versus Rick Steiner for the TV title. Steiner then |
| 0:48.6 | no-showed so Hall got that belt and as he was also the US champion, he offered up a challenge. |
| 0:53.8 | Anyone right now |
| 0:54.7 | can fight for these championships. Booker T accepted before getting screwed by the group, |
| 0:59.6 | known as Creative Control. That's right, that's what they called. My gosh. A week later, |
| 1:04.1 | though, Scott decided it was too hard to have both titles, so just gave the TV version to his |
| 1:09.3 | friend Kevin Nash. The problem was, Big Kev didn't want it either, so they quite literally threw it in the bin. |
| 1:16.0 | WCW was fine with this as well because who cares? |
| 1:18.5 | Don't worry about the fact that Rick Flair and Dusty Rhodes, among others, had held this championship at some point. |
| 1:23.3 | And yes, this was also when Haxor, Jim Duggan found it in the trash, and because he took |
| 1:28.0 | ownership of it, he was allowed to defend it. So think of that one again. There's many reasons |
| 1:33.8 | WCW fell off a cliff, and I believe this was one of them. Number nine, Rino in the ECW heavyweight |
| 1:38.9 | title. When ECW closed in 2001, Rino was both the world and TV champions. That was just cool. In 2006, |
| 1:46.8 | WWE then decided they were going to try a far up this brand again, so they made contact with the |
| 1:51.1 | Man Beast, who at the time just so happened to be in TNA. As luck would have it, TNA were actually |
| 1:55.9 | going to run the old ECW arena as this was going on. And after Rhino defeated Jeff Jarrett, |
| 2:02.2 | he revealed that he had brought the OG World ECW belt to the show. So that was nice. He then talked about the |
| 2:06.9 | WWE offer but did much like the creative of it all. So to make sure everybody knew how he felt, |
| 2:12.5 | he set fire to this object. I mean what? Now, of course, the belt was a replica as WWE had taken ownership |
| 2:18.8 | of all the ECW possessions, but still, Rhino decided he wanted to make a splash, and he did it by |
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