10 Super Rare Times WWE Promoted Rival Titles
6. ...And So Do The Midnight Express
Or, the New Midnight Express anyway.
Jim Cornette's character was all over the map in 1998 as he tried and failed to juggle his IRL manager role with a kayfabe one being booked by Vince Russo. Having brought the Rock & Roll Express back to apparently save a tag division that was suddenly thriving again, his character was then cast to dress up Billy Gunn's less popular former partner and Sparky f*cking Plugg as one of the weaker "New" teams in wrestling history.
The belts may as well have been toys next to the real deals held up loud and proud by the white hot New Age Outlaws at the time, with the comparisons made even worse when the two sides squared off in a tragic bonus match at the 1998 King Of The Rings. Months before Gunn knocked everybody's block off and Hardcore Holly got a haircut to make him look like he could, they were desperate cases of men struggling to find any sort of form right as everybody on the roster seemed to manage it.