10 Times Wrestlers Became WWE Champions Without Winning A Match

by John Bills

1. Triple H - World Heavyweight Championship

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It was a move that was criticised by many, and whilst the backstage politicking aspects of it all are rather nauseating it is difficult to disagree with Triple H being the top heel on Raw in 2002. His alliance with Eric Bischoff was immensely successful in garnering heat, and whilst they got the upper hand way too often it is still difficult to criticise certain moments in the story.

With Brock Lesnar taking the Undisputed Championship to SmackDown, Raw found itself without a world champion. Bischoff rectified this on an episode of the flagship show, bringing back WCW's old world championship, the Big Gold Belt (World Heavyweight Champion).

How would a champion be crowned? Well, there's no reason to go through the rigmarole of deciding a champion when you can just give it to the guy in the ear of the boss, right? Triple H was handed the title, and everything continued as normal.

And sure, you could say it devalued the belt, but this was a belt held by Vince Russo and David Arquette, so I'm not so sure. Sometimes you don't need to work all that hard to become a champion.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.