10 Awesome One-Time WWE Champions
Once was enough.
Most of the biggest names in WWE history have held the company's top prize on more than one occasion. Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin, for example, both wore the world title six times; a reflection of just how dominant they were in their respective eras.
In more recent times, the needle has moved dramatically. Now, the franchise player, John Cena, has clocked up a 'record-equalling' 16 world title reigns, with at least one more guaranteed to follow before he hangs up his boots. If you don't get at least two bites of the cherry in this hot potato age, you can count your career a massive failure.
Except, actually, that attitude is kind of silly. Even though many of the leading stars have won the strap multiple times, there are several other household names worthy of a place in the Hall of Fame who - for one reason or another - only managed to pick up the one.
It doesn't make them any less deserving of our respect. In fact, it arguably makes the occasions on which they did occupy the spot of top dog all the more special. Who among us can possibly recall all of Edge's title wins?
10. Booker T
Unless you count those couple of weeks in mid-2001 when he held WCW's soon-to-be-discontinued Big Gold Belt on Raw, Booker T only managed one world title reign during his entire time working for Vince McMahon.
Almost instinctively, this feels like a massive injustice, particularly when you consider how over the guy was during his first couple of years on Raw, and how limply his World Heavyweight Championship pursuit ended at the hands of Triple H at WrestleMania XIX.
When he finally did get his chance with the title, it was only after he ditched everything that made his original character so great in favour of the short-lived "King" gimmick, and even then he was only given the thing a stopgap between Rey Mysterio and Batista.
In happier news, five reigns with the WCW Championship puts him only behind Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan and Sting - which isn't a bad place to be.