10 Times Wrestlers Were Literally Given Championships
4. David Flair (WCW US Title)
Before there was Charlotte, there was David.
The oldest and least talented of Naitch's offspring, David's wrestling career was shorter than one of his dad's benders.
Debuting in WCW in mid-1999, merely months into his wrestling training, David was clearly neither ready nor able to be a professional wrestler.
What he did have though, was his old man's name. And in the unmeritocratic world of wrestling, nepotism carries with it at least a mid-card title.
Merely weeks into his career as a wrestler, papa Flair, in his role as President of WCW, stripped Scott Steiner of the United States Championship and handed it over to his first born.
Dying his hair like his legendary father and sporting his famous sequinned robes to the ring, David as US champion was pitted against his dad's old friends in an attempt to make it look like he had in fact had wrestling training.
Unfortunately, the Nature Boy rub only lent credence to the old adage that you can't polish a turd.
With his father's boots being too large to fill, David quickly dropped the title to an actual professional wrestler, Chris Benoit, one month later.