10 Times WWE Totally BOTCHED A New Title

When Ted DiBiase couldn’t win the WWF Championship, he went out and made his own title, a perfect melding of his excessive wealth and vanity. He would briefly bestow it upon his protégé, the Ringmaster, but that guy didn’t quite pan out.

But when the title resurfaced more than a decade later, it was around DiBiase’s son’s waist. Ted DiBiase Jr. even briefly had Virgil seconding him, as he looked more like a poor copy of his father than a second-generation wrestler who could stand on his own. Literally none of this worked. The Million Dollar Man was a main event-level wrestler who was a reviled heel, while Ted Jr. was barely a midcarder who looked like he was playing dress-up while carrying the title, which would only last for about seven months before it disappeared again.

The title would pop up once more in NXT in 2021 as part of Cameron Grimes’ evolution into the wealthiest man on the brand. He and LA Knight would feud over the title, which again would disappear after only a few months.

What worked once hasn’t worked since, so maybe WWE should just stick this one in a trophy case and leave it there.