10 Incredible Wrestling Title Wins (…That Led To RUBBISH Reigns)

10. Eddie Guerrero: WWE Championship

Eddie Guerrero was an unbelievable performer who'd have been a daily component of today's GIF-able state of pro wrestling. The unmitigated mastery of every Eddie Guerrero match went unrivalled in an era when workrate wasn't an influential decider in what makes a solid wrestler.

His ascendancy to WWE Champion came too late. Toppling Brock Lesnar at the 2004 No Way Out created what is heralded as a revered moment of the Ruthless Aggression Era. It was poignant in realisation. Guerrero had first arrived in WWE seeking preferred treatment than that he'd had in WCW. He was a perennial mid-carder there in spite of a killer breakthrough act in Mexico's AAA with Art Barr.

Discussion of his WWE Championship victory typically surrounds the win itself. Rarely is there conversation surrounding his actual run at the helm of the WWE ship - and that's because it sucked. Eddie went from a 30-minute epic vs. Lesnar to three disqualification finishes in a row before dropping the strap to JBL in a punishing Texas Bullrope match. Back-to-back defences vs. Kurt Angle and Rey Mysterio a month after surging to WWE Champion immortality was the peak of his run, 30 days into his 133-day reign.

Indeed, the only other highlight beyond this was that stomach-churning Judgement Day 2004 bloodbath. It was no fitting portrayal of the AAA legend.