10 Times Brilliant Wrestlers Endured Miserable Title Reigns
9. Rob Van Dam - WWE Champion June 11, 2006 - July 3, 2006
Who's got two thumbs and totally f*cked up the biggest push of his career?
Rob-Van-Dam.
It was a Dam shame; RVD did well to recover his main event aura having lost so decisively to Triple H at Unforgiven 2002 and subsequently meandered about in several thrown-together tag teams purely to fill a spot on the midcard. Not that he wasn't at fault; if there is ever a time to not get high in your car, and then subsequently exceed the speeding limit in said car, it is when you have just won the biggest prize in the industry as the figurehead of an emerging brand around which you have been built.
After waiting four years to reach the pinnacle once more, couldn't he have waited five minutes to get to his hotel room?
Van Dam defended the title just the once on pay-per-view, defeating Edge at Vengeance 2006. He lost both the WWE and ECW World Titles across a 24-hour period between July 3 and 4 once WWE caught wind of Van Dam and Sabu's bungling stoner comedy side project.