10 Weirdest Ways To Earn A Wrestling Title Shot
3. Break Your Neck
Hardcore Holly fancied himself a main event act. In a legendary tidbit revealed on Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard, Holly once pitched his own World Title run in front of the entire roster.
"How 'bout you give me the belt?"
"And then what?" some official asked, keen to understand if Holly had an interesting arc with which to get there.
"And then I'll beat everybody!"
Headliner Holly would have been the t*ts, matter of fact - just a surly, limited, but hilarious brawler beating the piss out of multiple geeks month in, month out. It's such a great concept. Holly beats everybody. So what happens then? "I'll beat 'em again!" is honestly the most accurate guess as to what he'd have said next.
This didn't happen, sadly, but perennial midcard act Holly did once receive a shot at Brock Lesnar's WWE Championship because Lesnar had shoot broken his neck. When he returned at Survivor Series in 2003, he got himself disqualified from the traditional elimination match after attacking Lesnar before the bell. He lost a match, which somehow granted him a crack at the Big Gold Belt.
It's more than Triple H did.