9 WWE Championship Wins That Were Completely Overshadowed

4. Chris Jericho - Elimination Chamber 2010

Going into Elimination Chamber 2010, the World Heavyweight Champion was none other than The Undertaker. The issue here was that Taker seemed destined to face Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania once again, only this time Michaels would put his career on the line. The belt therefore became somewhat superfluous in that story, and it seemed somewhat wasted there.

So The Deadman needed to drop the belt. This happened at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, as HBK appeared completely out of nowhere to drop 'Taker with some Sweet Chin Music and cost him the title belt. Taker/Michaels II was on for WrestleMania XXVI.

The secondary story coming out of the PPV was that Chris Jericho was the main beneficiary of Michaels' interference, and was World Heavyweight Champion for the third time. Jericho transitioned into a feud with Edge, but the continuation of 'Taker and Michaels' story was the real talking point here.

Authored by John Bills

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

Posted On: 30th Aug 2016

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