10 Most Pointless World Champions In WWE History

7. Big Show (2002)

Speaking of hot shot booking, WWE's decision to remove the title from a red-hot Brock Lesnar in November 2002 must be considered a mistake.

Lesnar had just beaten The Rock at SummerSlam three months earlier, and he had been established as the man in WWE. It was quite the shock then, when Paul Heyman turned on Brock to align himself with Big Show at Survivor Series, only for the giant to drop the title to Kurt Angle one month later at Armageddon.

This all got in the way of plans for a WrestleMania XIX showdown between Angle and Lesnar over the title; had WWE wished to book a Brock win at 'Mania to reclaim the gold, it would have been better to have Kurt heelishly screw him over, instead of cramming Big Show's triumph and a Heyman heel turn in without any real logic.

The argument that WWE wanted Lesnar to win the 2003 Royal Rumble doesn't wash either, because that represents poor planning. Brock shouldn't have won the title from The Rock at SummerSlam if he was a Rumble favourite. His first reign needed to be seriously lengthy, and it wasn't.