10 Best WWE Hardcore Champions

On paper, Al Snow carrying around what he believed was a sentient mannequin head was stupid. In reality, it was also stupid. It was a stupid, stupid idea, and yet exactly the sort of thing that made the Attitude Era such a boom period for wrestlers who would today be regarded as jobbers.

Case in point: it was while Snow was going mad that he enjoyed the best and most fruitful WWE run of his career. Between 1999 and 2002, he held the Hardcore Championship six times, becoming one of the division's great flag-bearers alongside Crash Holly and Raven.

He wasn't involved in too many great matches during this time, but he did feature in some of the division's early pay-per-view outings, competing in a triple threat match at WrestleMania XV, for example, a super-fun opener to an otherwise drab and forgettable show.

This is pretty much the story of Al Snow's wrestling career in general. He has always been a vastly under-appreciated star - one whose contributions on and off the camera are never really recognised.

Well, that ends here (well, not really, but he definitely makes the list).