10 Ridiculous Ways WWE Champions Lost Their Titles
6. The Alliance Thanks Kanyon With Booker T's Title
Nowt mattered in 2001. Or not enough, anyway, considering the stakes and circumstances that consumed the second half of the year.
WCW were now a part of WWE, midcard roster-and-all, and an Invasion storyline hadn't quite completely ran out of steam when the super-talented Chris Kanyon became United States Champion simply because Booker T seemingly didn't want to carry two belts around anymore. 'The Book' should have reckoned on somebody Vince McMahon actually deemed a star coming back anytime soon to fix that problem, but instead he was strong-armed by Stephanie McMahon into giving the gold to the new 'Alliance MVP' to save him the bother of having to defend it.
It was all terribly limp, this. Belts changed at such a frantic rate that it was often mentioned on screen by the more disgruntled amongst the roster, to the point where Kanyon himself shortly carried a couple around before The Undertaker and Kane put paid to that.
Particularly odd was in its motivation - not having 'The Book' suffer a defeat. He'd be beaten like a drum over the next few years.