10 Times Wrestlers Became WWE Champions Without Winning A Match

10. Mideon - European Championship

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Whether you know him as Mideon or as Phineas I. Godwinn, Dennis Knight was thought of more as a tag team wrestler during his run with the WWE. His singles time to shine came in the summer of 1999 as Mideon, as the Corporate Ministry story was in full flow.

Three months earlier Shane McMahon had retired the European Championship, wanting to be remembered as the final champion and indeed to 'retire as champion'. For reasons we'll never know it seemed that he continued to carry the title around with him nonetheless.

On a June 1999 episode of Raw (one that includes a Mark Henry vs. Viscera match no less), Mideon asked Shane if he could take a belt from his bag as he had lost his own. Shane, clearly ruffled by the goings on of the show, tells the former pig farmer to take what he likes.

And that is the story of how Mideon became European Champion.

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