The Worst Champions in WWE History

The Intercontinental Championship has been the catalyst for many to become WWE Champions. But just like the US title, it has been put into the wrong hands. Marc Mero had no business being a champion at all. It didn’t matter which gimmick he was using “Wildman” or “Marvelous” especially winning it from arguably one of the best champions in history, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, our beloved Triple H.

The ECW championship has been held by many incredible superstars, RVD, Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Sabu, Tazz, and Bam Bam Bigelow. But the worst thing to ever happen is kind of a toss-up between Bobby Lashley and Mr. McMahon. Neither had any business being in the land of extreme.

I could never see Lashley being part of the original ECW, which is why it was so hard for me to see him win the title from Big Show. Mr. McMahon is a great personality for TV, but no business as a champion the time that these two were facing off for the ECW Championship was the darkest time in ECW history.

The World Heavyweight title hasn’t been on the scene very long. Unless you want to go back to its WCW days so to be fair I will pick two stars one from the world title coming into WWE and one from WCW. The worst champion in WCW history is David Arquette.

We all remember this sham as probably the worst thing to ever happened to WCW next to getting Vince Russo as head writer. This was just a joke on so many levels and really as a fan made me change the channel and not watch for a month. The second joke as world champion for the WWE era is The Great Khali. I cringed at the sight of Khali holding the title above his head. 

Now for the coveted WWE Championship. Its hard to believe that Vince would put the WWE title in the hands of someone that isn’t up to the standards that the WWE Champions before them held and that man is John “Bradshaw” Layfield.

I had a hard time watching him beat Eddie Guerrero for the belt and defending it against the likes of Big Show, Kurt Angle and The Undertaker and win. The biggest reason I cheered for John Cena winning the title for his first time was finally watching it come of the waist of JBL. I hope to never see a world title or the WWE title around this man’s waist again.

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