Christian’s 2 world title reigns

He lost his first World Title to Orton 2 days after he won it (4 if you count the air date). That annoyed the hell out of me back then, and still does today.

He should have had a good run with it from the start as a face, then his second run as a heel.

Wow I said a month later and it was 2 days! This was 2011 and that year is mostly a blur to me.

I too was also outraged that he lost it 2 days after winning it. Orton being Orton, went on twitter and told everyone to shut up and calm down, and that maybe this was all part of a larger story that would lead to something better.

Did it? Still waiting on that....

Didn't he also win the title due to a DQ? He deserved far better. His matches with Orton were great, but the booking was terrible.

You know what, he's probably right.

He doesn't have a single pinfall or submission victory in a world title match. His 2 reigns were won in a ladder match or by disqualification, and he lost both in his first defence against Orton.

I knew it was bad, but never realised it was that bad.

Someone asked him why his 2 title reigns were too short and that's what he said. I think he could have given a better answer, but maybe he thought the question was too "smarkish" so he brushed it off as such.

Funny how 10 years later and we’re seeing the same booking. Keith Lee could use a story and a PPV match for the title is just the thing...but nah put him and Drew on Raw and book Drew/Orton for the third straight PPV (mind you Drew has also won the first two matches in this feud).

I’ll always say that Christian should have beat Cena for the title in 2005. Even if it were a one night reign like Kane from 1998, the fact is that Christian getting the job done would have made him a made man for life. Christian wins the triple threat at Venegance 2005, gets cocky and loses it the next night to Cena, and hey continue the feud through SummerSlam.

Former writers have confirmed that Vince never saw much of Christian as a main eventer, and Bruce Pritchard thinks it stems from Christian refusing to cut his hair in 2002, but I also think being so closely associated to Edge swayed Vince’s mind as well. We knew from the moment they started tagging that Edge was being primed for the top of the card at some point. By 2005, Edge was struggling to get heel heat until the Matt Hardy stuff came out while Christian was slowly becoming one of their most over stars. We know how stubborn Vince can be and Christian becoming more over than Edge at that point seemed to be held against him, similar to a decade later when Ambrose/Mox was getting over while Vince’s next project Reigns wasn’t. I think Christian being booked into the ground in 2005 was an early example of Vince starting to ignore fans for his own personal preferences.

I knew Orton was never going to be on the levels of Rock and Austin, but a lot of people predicted it back in the RA era.

That’s exactly how I felt about Henry’s run as well. His “Hall of Pain” gimmick was fun but it didn’t erase the previous 15 years of midcard hell and injuries that killed his credibility. Seriously, in 2010 Batista was jobbing Mark out on Raw to look strong against Cena, and then a year later we’re suppose to believe that Mark is this unstoppable force?

It sucked when a guy like The Great Khali won the title, but it was only a year removed from beating Taker clean in his debut so there was still some credibility there. With Mark I just didn’t buy it since he had been a jobber to the stars for so long. The runs by Swagger, Henry, and Dolph’s first reign where he was handed the belt, only to loose it 10 minutes later, were the final nails in the coffin for me taking the WHC seriously.