More Shocking: Won WWF Title vs. Never Held It

Stan "the Man" Stasiak was a big star back in that era though, so it makes sense for him to win it to get it back on Sammartino.


A lot of guys could have easily been WWE Champion but never were. Razor, Piper, Snake, Perfect, DiBiase, Bulldog, all could have been WWE Champion at least once in their careers. But because of timing, story lines or injuries, it never happened.

But then the WWE Title is just a prop, to be honest a lot of those guys didn't need a belt to be over, they just already were.

More Shocking:

Won the WWF Championship Title Belt...for the first time, Chris Jericho. No one saw that coming. There was 1 Undisputed WWF / WCW World Heavyweight Championship Title. There were 2 Championship Title Belts. There were 3 matches. There were 4 of my favorite SuperStars of all time. So how was Y2J the 5th favorite, the absolute underdog, the dead last competitor you thought would win!?



If Triple H came back a month early, Jericho would be a ten time WWE / WWF Intercontinental Champion, and a three time WWE / WCW United Stares Champion right now. He would have walked in Vengeance 2001 as the United Continental Champion, instead of walking out as the Undisputed Champion.

Never held the WWF Championship Title Belt...ever again, Chris Jericho. Granted, I enjoyed his 4 month run. He is also a 2 time WCW Champion, and a 3 time World Champion, which in my mind is straight up a 5 time Big Gold Belt Champion.



What I want to put on the list is that he never had nameplates for the Undisputed and the Spinner, and never had sideplates for the Big Scratch and the Big Network. I’m still hoping one day he wins the Big Red Belt.

Who was the most over in the WWF 1983-84? Jimmy Snuka, who should've had at least a quick run in 83. Too bad the whole scandal with his girlfriend screwed things up, plus Hulk signing changed everything. Piper once said that they purposely pushed Snuka down in order for Hulk to get over as the top babyface in the company. Snuka was still in the main event at WM1 as a manager for Hulk and Mr. T. Eventually he left the WWF and when he came back in 89, he was a shadow of his former self and it wasn't the same.

Piper should have held the WWF title at some point. I think it would have been great to have him going into WM 2 as champion. Let Bundy attack Hogan and injure him just as he did, but months earlier. Then an injured Hogan could have lost the title to Piper during a SNME. Hogan comes back and defeats Bundy in the cage on another SNME to become number one contender. Hogan does his whole dumb shtick to defeat Piper at WM2. Far better than the boxing match we got.

As for who won it and surprised me the most? I get that Stone Cold wanted revenge Triple H badly, but Vince should never have won the WWE title. Especially due to Austin's help. It was dumb IMO because there were so many greats who never had that opportunity. So yeah... meh.

Andre should have had a bit of a run with the Belt. Have him lose to Hogan like happened at WM III. Continue the controversy with Marella and the 3-count. Heenan and Andre petition for a rematch all summer, and it's finally booked - at the first Survivor Series. Have the rest of the card the traditional survivor matches with the main event of Hogan vs Andre for the title. make it an all out brawl, and at the end a spent Hogan collapses while an exhausted Andre collapses on top of him for the 1-2-3,cause the ref never sees Hogan's foot on the bottom rope. ... Now it's Hogan chasing for a Title rematch after the controversy. Enter the Million Dollar Man, who openly says he's going to buy the WWF Championship. Jack Tunney makes the announcement that Hogan will get his rematch in February 1988 on The Main Event. DiBiase buys Andre's contract from Heenan,and Andre promises to deliver the Belt to DiBiase after successfully defending it against Hogan ( Do the storyline where DiBiase holds off on buying the title from Andre until after the Main Event match - if Ted is Champion at that time HE will have to defend it against Hogan. He doesn't want to do that.). Then the ME match goes exactly as it did, with Andre "beating" Hogan to retain the title and immediately surrenders it to DiBiase, Tunney declares the Title vacant, and we get the Mania IV tournament.

This way you give Andre an actual proper Title reign for 3 months or so with him still only having to wrestle the same amount of matches he did anyway.

Surprised...more like Angered! lol

That became the turning point from where I used to watch WCW and only watch the WWE if during a commercial break one of the handful of WWE guys I liked was in a match, but after that I felt like I was flipping to the WWE more during Nitro than ever before.

I will say this,though - Arquette turned out to be a better human being than a lot of the people in WCW at that time. He quietly donated his entire WCW pay to Owen Hart and Brian Pillman's families, and the night he won the Belt he walked into the tavern where all the boys were holed up and bought all their drinks and food.

What I enjoy about the Arquette story is that he was horrified himself at the notion of becoming champ. As a wrestling fan he knew how it would be received.

Russo sold him some snakey snake oil detailing an elaborate plan on how it would actually be a huge benefit getting it off him. Of course this was more of the patented "russo rubbish" we have all come to know & despise so utterly.

Shocked he never won - Owen Hart.

This guy was gold and should have taken the title at Survivor Series ‘95. It seemed like throughout 1994 they were building towards Owen eventually stealing the title from Bret and them having a final showdown at WM11. Give Owen the title at Survivor Series and he could drop it to Diesel at the Royal Rumble before facing Bret again at WM11.

Shocked he won - Eddie Guerrero.

He absolutely deserved that win. But even as a 13 year old I was shocked that they actually put the title on him considering he’s the complete opposite of what Vince has traditionally looked for in his top guys. On top of that, you put him in a match against Vince’s new face of the company Brock Lesnar (this was before we knew Brock was leaving) on traditionally a throwaway PPV, and you can see why so many people were shocked Eddie got the win that night. Amazing moment that a lot of people did not believe was going to happen going into the event.