12 Times WWE Brutally CANCELLED World Championship Reigns

3. Mr Kennedy

Pure bad luck: those are the only words necessary to summarise the WWE career of Mr Kennedy.

Twice he was being groomed for the push of a lifetime that any other wrestler from the period would have dreamed for, and twice it fell flat on its face for reasons other than Vince McMahon simply growing tired of Kennedy's face. The second time was technically the fault of Kennedy; he had been named in the September 2007 steroid scandal, resulting in his spot as the illegitimate son of the Chairman being handed to - for God's sake - Hornswoggle.

The first time, however, was not his fault. He had won the third Money in the Bank Ladder match at WrestleMania 23, doing so in a nifty match that is worth a rewatch when the PLE rolls around this September, and with previous winners Edge and Rob Van Dam both having won the WWE Title after cashing in, the future looked prosperous - until an apparently serious triceps tear, which carried a lay-off period of between five and seven months, resulted in Mr Kennedy being booked to defend and lose the briefcase to Edge.

That triceps tear was actually a hematoma, which carried a period of sofa-laying and television-binging of between five and seven weeks. His planned WWE Championship win and WrestleMania 24 match vs. Triple H were promptly binned, and within two years of his briefcase retrieval, he was binned from the payroll.