10 Most Pointless World Champions In WWE History

4. Batista (2008)

Batista had several runs with both the WWE Title and World Heavyweight Championship which meant something. Sadly, his capture of the latter belt at Cyber Sunday 2008 seemed like a crude exercise in validation for the pay-per-view and nothing else. It certainly couldn't top his previous title wins.

Jericho himself had only won the title at Unforgiven, and he hadn't even beaten ex-champ CM Punk (who was absent from the Scramble Match on that show) to win the thing. Still, Y2J had been excellent throughout his lengthy feud opposite Shawn Michaels, so it was hard to argue that he was a fine choice as champion.

WWE chose to end his reign prematurely by having Batista beat him in October, only for 'The Animal' to drop the belt back to Jericho on the 3 November Raw broadcast. The end result was a Batista reign which lasted just over one week and achieved nothing.

Jericho was only keeping the title warm for a returning John Cena at Survivor Series anyway, and that fact made Batista's short stint as champ mean even less.