7 Major Title Changes NOT On The WWE Network

If it's not on the Network, it didn't happen.

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For all the complaints - many justified - levelled at WWE these days by their legions of lapsed fans, few can really criticise their proprietary streaming service, the WWE Network. Sure, the ability to search might be worse than those trying to locate runaway nag Red Rum, and the actual delivery of the content is as cumbersome and bare-bones as skeleton on the stairs, but as far as comprehensive, inclusive wrestling resources go, it stands alone.

With literally thousands of hours of footage encompassing just about every major, historical North American outfit under the sun, from WWE's rivals WCW to expired territories Mid-South and WCCW, there's just about no match not at the fingertips of Network subscribers (if they're prepared to do a bit of trawling, anyway).

Naturally then, you'd expect this un-corkable content spigot to include every major title switch to ever take place in the house of the provider themselves - and especially those involving their top prize.

Clearly, given the article's heading, not. For reasons of either being unfilmed, unloved, or simple unreal, the following episodes of gold changing owner are absolutely nowhere to be found on the streaming service (although given the arcane tagging system, someone is liable to prove us wrong).

7. Edge Vs. Jeff Jarrett (House Show, 24 July 1999)

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How different Edge's eventually illustrious WWE career could have been had Ken Shamrock not became the World's Most Tardy Man on the evening of 24 July 1999.

Shamrock had been scheduled to challenge for Jeff Jarrett's Intercontinental Championship at Toronto's Skydome, but his flight into the province was so late that his employers decided that Edge - who had tagged with Christian against The Acolytes earlier that night - would instead pull double-duty. This was prior to WWE's Era of Spite, so the company decided to hotshot Double J's belt onto the Orangeville, ON native, giving him a huge boost in his homeland.

The match never aired on WWE television, and the switch was instead matter-of-factly alluded to with a series of stills on the next night's Fully Loaded pay-per-view. Those pixelated images are the only evidence of the change anywhere on the Network.

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