10 Most Undeserving Winners Of Vacant Wrestling Titles

10. Marc Mero

When Marc Mero won the Intercontinental Championship on Sep. 23, 1996, he did so after emerging victorious in a 16-man, month-long tournament to decide who would claim the vacant title.

That may sound like an impressive feat, but in actuality it wasn’t quite as straightforward as that.

Mero had hardly covered himself in glory in his route to the tournament final. His first-round victory over Steve Austin arrived via DQ after his opponent had manhandled the referee, and in the semi-final stage he only beat Owen Hart after bludgeoning Owen with his own protective cast.

Then once he’d eventually made it to the final, prior to scoring the victory off his Shooting Star Press, he’d lamped Faarooq with Sunny's purse to make it a hat-trick of shady victories.

Admittedly Faarooq had been the one to initially introduce the purse into the match, but either way, this wasn’t necessarily the most flattering of ways to win a tournament for a vacant title.