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The WORST First Days For WWE Champions - CM Punk! Rey Mysterio! Chris Jericho! Daniel Bryan After WrestleMania 30?!

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🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Adam and Michael discuss the worst first days WWE champs have had...


CM Punk!

Rey Mysterio!

Chris Jericho!

Randy Orton!

Daniel Bryan after WrestleMania 30?!


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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another top 10 debate. I'm Adam Wilborn from What Cool To Join.

0:14.1

My one of the daily boys, Michael Hamplet from What Cool To Talk About, worst first days

0:19.4

for WWE Champions. But before we end it, if you're a fan of this sort of thing, make

0:24.0

sure you subscribe to What Cool Dressing on either iTunes or Spotify. We're going to get

0:27.1

your podcast from for daily wrestling podcast review rules, my own NXT AW Dynamite pay

0:32.4

reviews. We have interviews around table discussions like this one and a roundup of the week

0:36.3

complete. With the believe it was of course on rescue. As I said, joined by Michael Hamplet

0:41.0

talk about his article, the 10 worst first days for WWE Champions, which is of course available

0:46.5

to read now at WhatCulture.com. And we're doing this, I suppose, because we did the worst

0:51.5

first days for NXT callups last weekend. We had a bloody good time doing it. Hamplet, what

0:56.7

was the inspiration behind this list?

0:58.7

Caring Cross. Is that the inspiration for everything now? Then some anchiers himself up

1:06.2

is expense or so could I? No, this was sort of a spin off really. So thinking about the

1:12.1

NXT callups that had awful first days, I got thinking about well, Caring Cross had that

1:18.2

belt around his waist. He was the NXT Champion. Has WWE done this to its top guys, its flag

1:25.1

bearer is not triple H's, but Vince McMahon's. And turns out, yeah, like loads of Champions

1:30.6

either through real life or through booked scenarios have had bad days. This was a mix. I

1:36.2

should point out K-Fave and non K-Fave bad days. Some injuries, whatnot, some just atrocious

1:42.4

booking, weird results, strange happenings, and just not necessarily the kind of thing

1:48.1

you would maybe expect. So for example, when you see the adverts saying, championship celebration

1:53.7

and cut to ends in tears, either ones like that or ones where things have genuinely gone

1:59.6

wrong, well, as we'll get into, it's a son, a raft of different first days, not the kind

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