7 Totally Accidental Wrestling Title Changes
Botched kickouts, forgotten stipulations, and everything in between.
A fan's delight and a wrestler's dismay, few things go viral quicker than a massive botch. For a myriad of reasons, human beings love watching others screw up, and as soon as somebody makes a mistake between the ropes, you can guarantee that X and Reddit will quickly be awash with gifs and gags.
It's bad enough when these mistakes happen in the middle of a bout, but they can become the main reason a match is remembered when they occur near the conclusion. Tossing a championship into the mix, and the effects are amplified even further, forcing promotions to chuck weeks of well-laid plans into the shredder.
Companies like WWE don't always treat their titles with respect, but they still want to maintain control. Unplanned title changes, though rare, give them an embarrassing mess to clean up, and while they're usually successful in doing so, these situations often leave audiences bewildered, and the promotion with a number of misplaced 1-2 day reigns sticking out in their title histories.
From the 1960s through to the present day, let's look at the most prominent examples.