10 Underwhelming Wrestlers Who Held Legendary Titles.

Beginning the decade in the possession of Ric Flair, the NWA title was set on an irrevocable course to become a relic of a bygone era when WCW left the NWA in 1993.

By the time Shane Douglas rejected the title upon winning it in 1994, it was a dead brand.

Spending the next few years around the waist of UFC fighter Dan Severn, by the time he dropped it former Olympic judoka Naoya Ogawa in 1999, the attempts to recreate the travelling champion were finally abolished.

When Nagoya lost his title to unknown Englishman Gary Steele at the organisations 51st Anniversary show in Charlotte in September 1999 however, the title had reached an all time low.

A native of sunny Gravesend, Steele was only three years into his wrestling career when he became the first no-name champion in NWA history.

A blip on a legacy careering into oblivion, Steele dropped the strap back to Ogawa a week later in front of half-a-dozen fans in a school gym in Connecticut.

While Steele's career never saw him appear in a major company, disappearing from wrestling in 2001, his Wikipedia notes that he competed on Deal or No Deal in 2011 - so, swings and roundabouts.