10 Ridiculous Ways WWE Champions Lost Their Titles
4. Debra Loses A Title Match
On a typically hedonistic May 1999 edition of Monday Night Raw, Debra received a shot at Sable's WWE Women's Championship. She lost the match. End of entry.
SWERVE BRO! SHE GAWT HER T*TTIES OUT AND I SWEA TO GAWD WHO COULD CALL A WOMAN LIKE THAT A LOOZA?!
Indeed, this mess of motivations wasn't exactly going to be tidied up by Vince Russo's pro wrestling peccadilloes, but WWE got (just about) what they needed out of Sable right as the Attitude Era megastar was losing interest in giving them much more.
Growing in fame and acclaim thanks to a record-smashing Playboy cover shoot that landed in line with WWE's meteoric blast in to the mainstream, Sable was losing interest in taking bumps but not exactly showing much enthusiasm for dropping the title that had been resurrected mostly for her a year earlier.
To this end, the company booked an Evening Gown match against Debra for her to win, only for Commissioner Shawn Michaels to decide that the stripped competitor should be the real victor. Seemingly to make it absolutely clear what was going on, he snatched the belt out of her hands. She never snatched it back.