10 Strangest Ways To Win A Wrestling Championship

9. Being Randomly Selected (Various)

Britt Baker DMD
WWE.com

Tag Team Championships require two titleholders.

It is, quite literally, in the name.

Naturally, pro wrestling hasn't always abided by this rule. WWE, an organisation so inherently against the idea of introducing Trios Titles despite Paul Levesque's fixation with stables, has often operated Tag Team Championships under the Freebird Rule. The notion that a wrestler can become a champion without competing in a championship-changing match was at its most brazen in WCW and TNA, though.

Of course.

In 2007, Samoa Joe held TNA's doubles titles on his lonesome, which was allowed, but Kurt Angle, who beat him for the straps, wasn't. He had to partner up, ultimately pairing with Sting, though not by selecting 'The Stinger'. Sting had won a four-way bout to earn the right to become half of the World Tag Team Champions, having been in a similar situation himself some nine years earlier when, after a falling out with championship-winning partner Paul 'The Giant' Wight, he felled 'Tall Paul' to earn the sole rights to the titles, later selecting Kevin Nash to defend the belts with.

Such tropes rarely occur now in mainstream wrestling, for the best.

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