10 Best Wrestlers Who Were Never WWE Champion
6. Jeff Jarrett
Tucked away inside Jeff Jarrett's lawsuit against GFW was a boy-popping qualifier about his pro wrestling pedigree, as if it were needed - and it was not. Totting up all the times 'Double J' was entrusted with an organisation's top strap, Jarrett's legal team noted how he was a 17 time World Heavyweight Champion.
The eye-watering figure wasn't technically false. Jarrett included all his runs with the WCW and NWA/TNA gold as well as significantly smaller titles won in USWA, WWA and AAA. Pointedly, 'WWE' were the initials missing from the needlessly loaded list.
At no point did Vince McMahon ever deem him worthy of his top title, and it twice resulted in Jarrett taking his business elsewhere. Furious with the company's decision to rush a feud between him and The Roadie in 1995, he walked out of the organisation on the same night Shawn Michaels took his Intercontinental Title. Just over four years later, he infamously switched sides on the promise of a WCW mega push from old friend and fellow WWE evacuee Vince Russo. Stuck underneath The Rock, Triple H and a Stone Cold Steve Austin vowing never to work with him, Jarrett was a spent force in Stamford yet again.