10 Absolute Worst Wrestlers To Win WWE Titles

8. Shane McMahon

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Shane McMahon, a former WWF European, Hardcore and WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champion - and inaugural World Cup Winner is a star. Even his biggest detractors cannot deny him that.

He is a fundamentally atrocious pro wrestler. Fundamentally insulting, in fact. Look at his punches. You cannot. They are a blur of pathetic, frenetic activity - "I'm so hard..." you can practically hear him wheeze - and yet they connect with potato force. He wrestles as if he has been choking on a sizeable foodstuff since 2016. That aspirational tough guy aura is in his eyes, too, and it's infuriating. He thinks he's quite incredible at this.

His triangle choke isn't a triangle choke because his legs aren't locked in the shape of a triangle, which is a giveaway. He also fails to trap both arms because he is as sh*tty a fake MMA fighter as he is a sh*tty pro wrestler.

Virtually every insult ever levelled at a performer synonymous with the Independent circuit, Shane warrants: he's a spot monkey with zero conditioning in horrendous shape, a glorified backyarder who has done well not to paralyse himself.

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