10 Things WWE Has Forgotten How To Do

6. Resist The Idea That Everyone Has To Be Champ

Bray Wyatt WWE Champ
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'Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase, Razor Ramon, Mr. Perfect, Roddy Piper, Rick Rude, Jake Roberts, Ricky Steamboat, The British Bulldog, Owen Hart; the list of top-tier performers who never once held a World Title in WWE goes on and on, and it could for days if one sat down to really think about it.

Meanwhile, Bray Wyatt, Jinder Mahal and Jack Swagger have all held the big one.

That's not a slight on those men personally (Wyatt, for example, could have been a brilliant WWE Champ had he been booked properly). No, it's a not a dig, but is instead a sad reminder that there's pressure on WWE to shift their most credible championships around just for the sake of it.

Imagine if this had been the case back in the 1980s and '90s. Some of the best title reigns in living memory from Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels and others would presumably have been joined by those for IRS, 'King' Mabel and other mid-card acts.

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