10 Most Wildly Unpopular WWE Title Changes

10. Alberto Del Rio Defeats CM Punk - Summerslam 2011

When you consider that Alberto Del Rio, in his debut year in WWE, won the Royal Rumble, Money in the Bank and had two separate WWE Title reigns, you'd be forgiven for wondering how he managed it off of the back of recycling JBL's gimmick and spending 6 months saying little other than that his name was Alberto Del Rio, his destiny was to win the World Title and Rey Mysterio was a chihuahua. 2011, alike 2010, saw WWE harshly botch their huge, big story-line of the summer: the summer of Punk. Rather than allow Punk to push off the springboard of his pipe-bomb in Las Vegas and headline-grabbing victory at Money in the Bank by allowing him to enter Steve Austin levels of rebellion, WWE decided to shackle him during the Autumn by placing him in a horrible feud with Triple H and Kevin Nash, whilst Del Rio took Punk's spot as the WWE champion. What followed was 3 months of a champion so infinitely boring, they decided to split up his reign as champion into two by putting the belt back on John Cena for 2 weeks- the same Cena that Punk had won it from. It was that bad. Eventually, WWE came to their senses and put the strap back on Punk before it was too late but sufficed to say, when day 1 of Punk's 434 day reign as Champion dawned on November 20th 2011, it finally ended one of the blandest, poorly-booked seasons in recent WWE history. Put simply, Del Rio was never World Champion material. The fans didn't care when he was champion and they don't care now. It was Riccardo who brought Del Rio all his heat to begin with anyways.