10 WWE Champions You Didn't Care To Hate

10. Alberto Del Rio

Oh boy, Alberto Del Rio. It is difficult to talk about Del Rio without focusing on his well-documented litany of latter-day controversies. The man has veered from one car crash to the other, eliciting a range of reactions that cover everything from concern to undiluted hate. To put it simply, there hasn't been anything positive attached to the name Alberto Del Rio for a long while.

WWE tried and tried to make The Mexican Aristocrat a superstar, but it never really worked. Some of that is down to Del Rio, a methodical performer in the Randy Orton sort of style that never connected deeply with the audience outside of that time he buried Big Show under a load of furniture. Del Rio had four runs on top of WWE and each one sort of sputtered along, constantly feeling transitional despite the company's hopes to the contrary.

As always, WWE must shoulder some of the blame too. Del Rio was always positioned as a paper champion, and by the time he was becoming a consistent loser as the challenger, it was all over. That debut victory over Rey Mysterio soon came to feel like it was from another time, and Del Rio's championship reigns were about as flat as you were going to get.