10 Strangest Ways To Win A Wrestling Championship
7. Finding It In A Bag (WWE European Championship)

Oddly enough, WWE's European Championship was their last well-booked secondary championship until Gunther's rebirth of the Intercontinental Title. Sort of.
It started off ridiculously strongly with a tournament final between Owen Hart and inaugural champion The British Bulldog, and Bulldog was followed by Shawn Michaels, Triple H, the aforementioned Hart, D'Lo Brown, X-Pac, and a still-liked Shane McMahon.
Not a bad starting seven.
But then Mideon won the championship.
After finding it in Shane's bag backstage.
And he was allowed to keep it.
Eh?
McMahon, who claimed to have retired as European Champion, stopped appearing with the championship until, in June 1999, Mideon discovered the strap in 'The Prodigal Son's' travel bag backstage. He was recognised as an official champion following this and would even have a pay-per-view title defence vs. D'Lo Brown at Fully Loaded, where he was mercifully dethroned.
That still isn't totally horrendous, that is until you learn that this was during the period where Mideon risked arrest every week by performing in the buff, with only a fanny pack to cover his little Phineas I. Godwinns. From here, the European Championship floated around the mid-card, never again being held by an authentic WWE headliner until its 2002 merger into the Intercontinental Title.