10 Best Wrestlers Who Were Never WWE Champion
7. X-Pac
A nailed-on main eventer if he'd broken through in 2018 rather than 1988, Sean Waltman's size always hampered his chances at the top of the card, particularly in Vince McMahon's land of the giants.
Considered child-like due to his stature in 1993, Waltman was literally labelled as such when the company elected to convert his 'Lightning Kid' superhero name into a moniker based around his propensity for a fluke. In real life, The 1-2-3 Kid was a litmus test for locker room newcomers in a talent-rich time. So said his Kliq friends and others that if wrestlers couldn't have a good match with Waltman, they couldn't do it with anybody.
This applied less by the time he returned in 1998, but only because workrate was secondary in the era of Crash TV. Still a sensation between the ropes, the abject boredom with his gimmick by 2001 resulted in 'X-Pac heat' becoming an unfortunately real thing as a rapidly-moving industry left him in a recent past that felt decades out of date. That X-Pac stood no chance of unseating Stone Cold Steve Austin, but the DX babyface years earlier had every bit the popularity to justify a hotshot win that unfortunately never materialised.