10 Times Title Belts Were Horribly Disrespected
8. Oklahoma
Though the title had already lost much of the glory it had once experienced lighting up ratings juggernaut Monday Nitro between 1996 and 1998, the Cruiserweight prize was somehow in better condition than most WCW titles during that period (more on those later).
Taking a calculated risk, WCW elected to place the gold on talented long-standing female wrestler Madusa, who held her end of some excellent inter-gender matches up and marginally adjusted perceptions with it.
Then Oklahoma defeated her.
Yes, the mean-spirited one-note joke perpetrated by Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara at Jim Ross' expense was given a title shot at January 2000's 'Souled Out', and ended up stealing the gold in a pathetic finish in which he ripped down Madusa's tights to distract her for a roll-up.
Mercifully, the booking called for his immediate surrender of the title due to being over the weight-limit. Another dig at Ross there, for good measure.
It of course highlighted the cavernous hole in the angle to begin with, as he surely shouldn't have been allowed to compete for the title for that reason alone.
The forfeiture only discredited the belt further, but at least got it away from a genuinely toxic character.