The title change could be the most hallowed part of wrestling. If you're winning a belt, you're going to feel awesome, and even though it is predetermined sports, losing one hurts. It's still real to me, damn it. WWE, given their history, has often gone totally nuts with these two, right down to hot potatoing some championships to the point of madness, and I tell you, my friend, sometimes it's just a mistake. So who has fallen foul

to such errors while I am, Simon Miller? And please do hit that subscribe button. It'll make you

feel warm and fuzzy in your tum-tum. Let's find out. Number 15, Vince McMahon makes himself

the WWF champion. Again, simply due to the law of averages, this was always going to happen.

The attitude era and the Monday Night War was so insane on both sides.

They were happy to try anything if it popped a rating, even if it meant their reasons were wrong.

That means they won for a week.

You have no idea how important it was to the WWF and WCW.

So therefore, on the 16th of September 1999 episode of Smackdown, Vince McMahon, owner and CEO, and not a wrestler, beat Triple H for the World Wrestling Federation title.

It's kind of incredible.

Of course, Stone Cold Steve Austin was evolved, and this was strange in hindsight.

McMahon was a babyface at the time, and while Stone Cold still hated him, he hated Triple H more. Therefore, he threw Vince over the game because, loll, suppose it was pretty funny, until you realized what it meant. Of course, McMahon relinquished it a week later, because this was really done just for a TV number, and yep, Triple H won it back during the six-pack challenge match at the Unforgiven pay-per-view. So we just did it for the sake of doing it, and that's why it backfired. You can't change a title like this for ratings alone. Fans don't like it, especially when it's the promoter winning the thing. It just feels very silly. It also diminished the title scene a little bit, but hey, WWF won that game, so I suppose it was fine. It also

wasn't. I mean, forums weren't as big as they are today, but they still existed, and much like

now, people lost their minds. I mean, of course they did. Vince McMahon for seven days was the

WWF champion. Number 14, Apollo Cruz is doomed. Apollo Cruz winning the intercontinental title was wonderful. If anybody deserved a proper push, it was him. I mean, say what you want about the guy, but he was never given a proper shot. You can't sink if you're not allowed to swim first. So when he won the Big Belt against Biggie at WrestleMania 37, it felt exciting. The fact that he and Biggie could feud over this as well felt promising.

I mean, if they were given enough room, they could have been the Gunther before Gunther,

rehabbing a championship and finally making it feel good again.

But nope, instead Vince McMahon came up with one of the worst gimmicks of modern times.

It was already difficult as Apollo had been out with General Aziz and told

us he was now a Nigerian king. I'm not joking, that's what we did, and Cruz even had to put on an

accent. In case you don't know, this was 2021. It was also booked terribly as the IC title

wasn't defended on a pay-per-view for four months, when Apollo randomly lost it to Shinske Nakamura on Smackdown. So what were we really doing, apart from continuing to marginalise the IC title? It begged the question why we even bothered. Poor Apollo Cruz couldn't even get his run over either, because we were all scratching our heads as to what was happening. Then got even worse, too. Turned out Cruz didn't want to to do this at all and it was false to pun him. So yeah, don't do that. Ruined it all. And look, is anybody talking about it today apart from me? No, there's a reason for it. Number 13, Edge and Chris Jericho go for five seconds. The Bash, which is an awful name for a pay-per-view, but on the 2009 version, Chris

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