20 Wrestlers You Totally Forgot Held WWE Championships
20. Mideon (European Champion)
The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Chris Jericho: the Attitude Era is responsible for some of the most memorable characters in WWE history. Mideon, however, isn’t one of them.
A bit part player in the Undertaker’s Ministry of Darkness, Mideon was a former WWE Tag Team Champion as Phineas I. Godwinn in the mid-90s. He became the Ministry’s demonic soothsayer after returning from injury in 1998, but he was rarely used as another other than cannon fodder, even while teaming with the gigantic Viscera.
In 1999, Mideon “won” the WWE European Championship in strange circumstances. Skulking around backstage one evening, Mideon found the belt in champion Shane McMahon’s duffel bag, and decided to claim it as his own. His reign was far from memorable, however, and he dropped the belt to D’Lo Brown one month later.
The Ministry of Darkness disbanded, and Mideon was reborn as “Naked Mideon,” but let’s not talk about that...