10 Wrestlers Who Lost Gold In Their Hometown

10. D'Lo Brown

Though born in Burlington, NJ, D’Lo Brown was billed from Chicago, IL throughout most of his WWE run. He was a solid midcard hand throughout the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, amassing five Intercontinental and European Championship reigns, and developing a reputation as a tremendous in-ring worker who could have a good match with almost anybody.

Only one of D’Lo’s four European Championship reigns lasted longer than a month, but he was always involved in the title hunt while active as a singles wrestler. His second reign kicked-off when he defeated X-Pac on a September 1998 episode of Raw, and the rematch was set for 19 days later at In Your House: Judgment Day, from Brown’s own hometown.

D’Lo wasn’t exactly treated like a homecoming hero, however. Ironically for a man wrestling X-Pac, Brown was taunted with chants of “D’LO SUCKS!” throughout the contest, and drew excellent heel heat for the duration. D’Lo was able to crack Pac with the belt while the referee was down, but it wasn’t enough: he recklessly flew off the top rope and right into an X-Factor, setting off a 120-day X-Pac reign that would end embarrassingly at Shane McMahon’s hands.