10 Most Undeserving Winners Of Vacant Wrestling Titles

Back in May of 2010, we somehow found ourselves in the situation of having Bret Hart win the United States Championship—some eleven years after his previous reign. He’d vacate it the very next week though, after being named the new Raw General Manager.

You might have thought this to be the perfect time to stage another tournament, but instead they simply had the Miz face off against R-Truth to determine the new US Champ. Now, I could understand the Miz’s involvement, given that he’d been in the title picture with an impressive 224-day reign prior to Bret Hart’s win.

R-Truth, on the other hand, hadn’t really done much at all to earn himself a shot. Seemingly slotted in at random, previously he’d been in a lower-card feud with Ted DiBiase, and yet here he was winning the United States title pretty much out of nowhere.

As a point of comparison, at the start of the month he was having matches on NXT and by the end of it he was the US champ. A mighty rise to prominence? Or a rather undeserving one? I’ll let you guys be the judge of that.