10 Strangest Ways To Win A Wrestling Championship

8. Being Low Blowed (WWE World Heavyweight Championship)

Britt Baker DMD
WWE.com

The World Heavyweight Championship in WWE - the original lavish, frankly otherworldly Big Gold Belt, not the current piece of bland crap masquerading as the cherished strap - was never without its controversial title swaps.

Triple H was the inaugural champion, but he never won it: Eric Bischoff, then-Raw General Manager, handed it to 'The Game' because he could. Only two years later, the title was held up for the first time, owing to a double pinfall. Triple H, again, was the champion, and he regained the vacated strap, rendering its vacancy pointless. On two occasions, Vickie Guerrero stripped babyface champions because they had utilised moves she deemed banned.

But the most contentious changing of the World Heavyweight Championship guard was when a freshly-heel Christian regained the title by being kicked in the nuts.

Vince McMahon famously didn't 'get' Christian, hence why he rapidly dropped the belt to Randy Orton five days into his original reign, but Christian regaining the championship by being booted in the ballsack, and then, as if that wasn't bad enough, being dismantled by Orton after the fact with an RKO onto an invincible broadcast table?

This was depressing.

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