10 Most Bizarre Wrestling Title Lineages
7. WWE Cruiserweight Championship (Current)
The WWE/NXT Cruiserweight is either outright cursed, or, if it fell into a barrel of t*ts, it would come out sucking its thumb.
TJ Perkins was the inaugural holder of the rebooted title, and has all but ruined his chances of making mainstream money by being as thick as rancid pigsh*t on social media. He just wants to have conversations! Which might be a helpful way to spend time when he doesn't get bookings. The Brian Kendrick fared OK. Rich Swann found himself in extremely ugly and regrettable bother with the law. A heavily disillusioned Neville left the company, or at least tried to, and was frozen out for almost a year. Akira Tozawa became a non-entity.
Enzo Amore became the least-liked personality in the modern history of the industry how ya doin'.
The curse was since broken until the title was absorbed into NXT, at which point it was claimed by Lio Rush (fired unnecessarily amid deep financial uncertainty) and later Jordan Devlin (unable to defend title amid ongoing global crisis).
It is now so cursed that its bearer is damned before it is wrapped around his waist. The doomed Drake Maverick has gravitated towards its siren's call as part of a reprehensible "inspirational storyline".