In this edition of ‘Ranking the Champions’, I am actually not ranking the champions. I am ranking those wrestlers in the post-Wrestlemania years who were NOT given a WWF/WWE Championship Belt of any kind.
This is a hard list to construct for a variety of reasons. First off all, it’s not like a ‘Ranking the Champions’ list where I can go to a list of champions and weed out who I don’t want and make my decisions from there. This one took a little research.
Also, I am ranking these champions as to what they did in and for the WWF/WWE. Some of the entrants on this list had GREAT success in other promotions but were never given a title run in Vince McMahon’s promotion. I weighed what they did while they were in WWF/WWE.
This list is EXTREMELY old school, since there are so many titles these days and three shows to choose from that a lot of the post ‘Attitude-Era’ wrestlers had a run with a title, mainly the Hardcore Title or some makeshift tag team they were in at the time. To my knowledge the people on this list held no titles.
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10. Bam Bam Bigelow – The ‘Beast from the East’ was a big man who could really move. Plus, whether you like it or not…he was involved in the Main Event at Wrestlemania XI.
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9. The Bushwhackers – Luke and Butch are the only tag team on the list. While they rarely won a high profile match, the Bushwhackers were a staple in the tag division for years. Plus, I really liked the ‘battering ram’ as a finisher!
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8. George ‘The Animal’ Steele – With his blue green tongue and turnbuckle biting antics, I thought George Steele would be higher on this list when I first started constructing it. George started as a destructive heel and grew into a fan favorite. I hate putting him this low on the list, but while Steele had some interesting in-ring tactics, only his feud with Randy Savage came to mind as anything he did progressive wise.
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7. Tatanka – Tatanka is one of my personal favorite wrestlers. He had incredible ring energy and a nearly two year undefeated streak. Good feuds with Rick Martel, Shawn Michaels, and Yokozuna made him a fan favorite. I welcomed his return in 2006 as it actually gave me a chance to see him live in the ring.
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6. Dusty Rhodes – The ‘American Dream’ frankly didn’t do much as a wrestler in WWF. But his career is legendary, and he had some great feuds with Randy Savage and Ted Dibiase while he was the ‘Common Man’.
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