10 Best Wrestlers Who Never Held The IMPACT World Championship
9. Crimson
At one point, Crimson was a potential 'next big thing' in professional wrestling. He was undefeated for well over a year, his streak only ending at the 2012 Slammiversary pay-per-view at 470 days.
His first official match for the company was alongside Kurt Angle against a seven-man team including Jeff Jarrett, James Storm, Robert Roode, and others. He was destined for great things, and boy, did they come. The guy was having marquee bouts with Samoa Joe, Matt Hardy, and Abyss right off the bat.
Technically speaking, the only reason Crimson never had a World Championship run is because of the star power at the time.
Look at it this way; IMPACT wanted to keep Crimson undefeated, but also wanted him to enter the 2011 Bound For Glory Series without him coming out the victor. Thus, he suffered a storyline injury to rule him out of earning a title opportunity vs. Kurt Angle at that October's Bound For Glory pay-per-view. Weak, weak booking. Just don't put him in the tournament if it's going to result in awkward booking.
He did, however, manage to lift the World Tag Team Championships alongside Matt Morgan, a makeshift team made at the tail-end of 2011. Not quite the same as a World Championship, though, is it?