10 Most Hated WWE Champions

6. The Undertaker

John Cena
WWE

The 'American Bad *ss' Undertaker persona saw the company cornerstone replacing darkness for denim and slow strolls for speeding motorbikes, but these were merely aesthetic adjustments designed to steer 'The Deadman' through a rapidly evolving product.

Largely forgotten from his time as a biker (and predictably shelved from most glowing video tributes) was his spell as an abhorrent odious pr*ck either side of the lens.

Selfishly bulldozing through Kurt Angle, Diamond Dallas Page, Brock Lesnar and others during his most insecure spell in the organisation, The Undertaker's late-2001 heel turn afforded him the opportunity to repeat off-screen political transgressions in front of the viewing public.

Years before his in-ring Indian summer, the overweight and over-pushed 'Taker continued a chronic run with an abysmal Championship victory over nostalgia-act-gone-sour Hulk Hogan in May 2002. Unequivocally one of the worst WWE Title matches ever, neither could literally or figuratively carry the other to something watchable. A bizarrely brilliant Monday Night Raw ladder match with Jeff Hardy remains the lone highlight of an otherwise torrid tenure.

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