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Your 3 least favourite World Heavyweight Champions

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#1 · (Edited)
It's a simple question so it may have been posted in the past but since I haven't seen a thread about it I decided to ask.

Who are, in your opinion, three worst World Heavyweight Champions of all times in WWE? And why do you think they're worst?


For me those would be:

1. The Great Khali - because he can't wrestle and simply sucks.
2. Jack Swagger - has retarded face and can't be taken seriously, also has terrible mic skills.
3. Christian - never fitted as WHC for me, he's generally overrated, he should be upper midcard at best but not World Heavyweight Champion.


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#31 ·
Rey Mysterio would be the runner up for me. I remember hating his World Title run in 2006, but his World Title reigns after I didn't care about. And ''Didn't care about'' would describe Jeff Hardy's World Title reigns to me, probably because they happened around the time when wrestling was at it's absolute lowest point for me in 2009.
 
#33 · (Edited)
1) Khali. Nobody can come close to surpassing this disaster of a title reign, nobody. Arguably the worst wrestler to ever step foot in the squared circle. He can't talk, can't move, can't wrestle, etc. Just awful, horrible, terrible and any other similar adjective you want to throw in there. A very dark day in WWE history.

2) Swagger. Why this goofball was a World Champion is beyond me. He had zero build leading to his Money in the Bank win, and they gave him the strap two days after winning it. His lack of charisma, non-existent mic-skills and atrocious booking didn't help either. If he never won the title, then I'm sure it would still be main eventing PPV's by now. Such an undeserved, rushed and forced reign, it almost makes me want to look fondly back at Sheamus in '09.

3) Jeff Hardy. Couldn't give two sh*ts how over he was and how much merchandise he sells, he's a piss-poor excuse of a champion and doesn't deserve to be a top guy. The fact that Vince even considers giving a major title to this unreliable, drug-addicting, glorified stuntman just goes to show you how low the company was at the time. Only good thing that came out of it was Punk taking it right off him twice.
 
#34 ·
ORTON- the most overrated anything in WWE history. Boring in the ring, chloroform on the mic, and is booked like he's the second coming. Not one of his WHC reigns was justified, especially him taking the belt from Christian only days after Christian won it.

BATISTA- I've never been a fan of Batista, not because I found him boring, but because he never really seemed to earn the belt(the same way orton ever really did) in each one of his feuds, he seemed to always be the guy who would have the belt, and the other guy would be trying to get it from him.

CENA- I've never hated cena as much as some do, but if I remember right, he won his first WHC the night he came back after a few months away, and that it self is an injustice to whoever was in the title picture at that time.
 
#36 ·
Great Khali - Can't work, can barely even move.

Jack Swagger - Much better worker than Khali, but still very boring to watch.

Rey Mysterio - First reign was a Cinderella run that never really went anywhere, the 2nd reign lasted a month and was basically him beating Swagger again, then got crushed by Kane.
 
#37 ·
It's a simple question so it may have been posted in the past but since I haven't seen a thread about it I decided to ask.

Who are, in your opinion, three worst World Heavyweight Champions of all times in WWE? And why do you think they're worst?
Seems like most of the people responding don't even bother writing their reasons. Why even bother to respond? Anyhoo....


1. Great Khali - I don't even remember his title reign and I'm glad I don't.
2. Rey Mysterio - Not so much that he doesn't deserve it but his reign was awful and I felt they were just exploiting Eddie's death. He wasn't main eventing and was jobbing to everyone in non-title matches. Just bad.
3. Jack Swagger - Pretty similar to the Mysterio reign minus the Eddie death. The fact that his push came from nowhere and didn't have any momentum going into his cash-in victory over Jericho didn't help matters.
 
#41 ·
Jack Swagger
Big Show
Great Khali
 
#45 ·
1. Great Khali. That crap must have been booked by the same people that thought Nathan Jones would be a great acquisition.
2. Jack Swagger. That reign was the biggest waste of a Money in the Bank briefcase ever. EVER. Even Cena's served some purpose. Hopefully Swag's current push leads to a World Title, because I get the feeling that Swagger 2.0 is a far better character, would be a far better champion, and Jacob Hager can get off this list.
3. Dolph Ziggler. Yes, Little Nicky from the Spirit Squad is officially on the list because of that stupid crap storyline with Mrs. Guerrero and Edge. Hopefully he cashes in his briefcase and wins, because having the current incarnation of Nicholas Nemeth as World Champion, even for one day, would be good enough to remove him from this list FOREVER. Right now, he is that good.

Honorable Mention: Jason Arquette and Vince Russo. I know that 'officially,' the true legacy of the Big Gold Belt was severed from the present title, but I think we all know the real history. If we weren't going by the 'official' records, these two and Khali would be by far and away the correct answers to this question. Not even close.
 
#47 ·
1. The Great Khali: Should have just put the strap on Batista after Edge's injury & elevated MVP as the #1 Contender.
2. Mysterio: Never should have won it in the first place. WM22 should have been Angle/Taker for the WHC with Mysterio/Orton in the mid-card. His entire reign was horribly booked as he never was a credible champion.
3. Jack Swagger: Would have put Hardy here but at least he had a great feud with Punk. Swagger's reign started great after beating a red-hot Orton but lost momentum & credibility afterwards.
 
#52 · (Edited)
1. Great Khali because he is a horrible wrestler with no charisma

2. Jack Swagger because of bad booking. Just look at his win-loss record as champion

4/5/10: Loses to Randy Orton in a non-title match (Raw)
4/9/10: Beats John Morrison (Smackdown)
4/16/10: Beats Chris Jericho and Edge (Smackdown)
4/19/10: Loses to The Undertaker in a non-title match(Raw)
4/23/10: Loses to John Morrison in a non-title match(Smackdown)
4/25/10: Beats Randy Orton (Extreme Rules)
4/26/10: Beats John Morrison (Raw)
5/7/10: Loses to Kane via DQ(Smackdown)
5/17/10: Loses to Randy Orton via DQ (Raw)
5/21/10: Loses to Kofi Kingston in a non-title match(Smackdown)
5/23/10: Loses to Big Show via DQ (Over the Limit)
5/28/10: Loses to Big Show & Kofi Kingston w/Drew McIntyre (Smackdown)
6/4/10: Beats MVP (Smackdown)
6/11/10: Loses to Rey Mysterio in a non-title match(Smackdown)
6/18/10: Loses to Rey Mysterio & The Big Show w/CM Punk (Smackdown)
6/20/10: Loses championship to Rey Mysterio (Fatal Four Way)

3. Rey Mysterio because of bad booking. Just look at his win-loss record during his 1st reign as champion

4/7/06: Beats Randy Orton (Smackdown)
4/28/06: Wrestled Kurt Angle to a no contest (Smackdown)
5/5/6: Loses to Mark Henry in a non-title match (Smackdown)
5/12/06: Loses to The Great Khali in a non-title match (Smackdown)
5/19/06: Loses to Kane in a non-title match (Smackdown)
5/21/06: Beats JBL (Judgment Day)
5/26/06: Beats JBL (Smackdown)
6/2/06: Loses to Kurt Angle via countout (Smackdown)
6/7/06: Loses to Rob Van Dam in a non-title match(WWE vs ECW Head-to-Head Special)
6/9/06: Loses to Finlay in a non-title match(Smackdown)
6/11/06: Wrestled Sabu to a no contest (ECW One Night Stand)
6/16/06: Beats Gregory Helms (Smackdown)
6/23/06: Beats Mark Henry via DQ (Smackdown)
7/14/06: Beats William Regal (Smackdown)
7/15/06: Beats King Booker, Finlay and Mark Henry w/ Batista and Bobby Lashley (Saturday Night's Main Event)
7/21/06: Beats King Booker (Smackdown)
7/23/06: Loses championship to King Booker (Great American Bash)
 
#57 ·
Khali
Sheamus
Undertaker

I really just have a lot of issues with The Undertaker. I'm not going to go into detail about it, but he didn't deserve to be champion at that point in his career and he didn't need it either. People complain about big stars no-selling, not putting people over, and hogging the spotlight when they only work part-time schedules. Undertaker is all of those things rolled into one. I'm not hating on him, but Undertaker winning the Rumble as well as being a three time WHC in his semi-retirement, it's just wrong.
 
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