10 World Champions Who Bombed TWICE

8. Sid

Sid Vicious WCW Title
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If you were booking a wrestling promoter in the 1990s, you'd put a top title on Sid.

As either Vicious, Justice or Sycho, the big Arkansas farm boy-turned-monster megastar was the perfect manifestation of a champion wrestler, other than the fact he wasn't that hot between the ropes.

In the absence of others who looked like big deals though, Sid was the guy both WWE and WCW turned to in times of trouble. Main eventing WrestleManias in 1992 and 1997 and having separate runs atop WCW in 1993 and 1999, he powerbombed his way to glory over and over again regardless of the relative disinterest from box offices on both sides.

Sid was a curio and the perfect airport test passer when companies ran small buildings in down periods. That he was around for quite a few of these speaks to how he simply looked like a solution to a problem rather than actually ever really being one.

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