10 Worst Simultaneous WWE Heavyweight Champions
4. JBL (WWE) & Triple H (World) - 2004
A tricky one to process, this.
2004 Triple H was as entrenched in his reign of terror then as he was during any point between his 2002 heel turn and 2005 trifecta of losses to Batista. Loathsome for better and worse on the blue brand, JBL was a complete sh*thouse as the heel steward of SmackDown, though his reign begged for a babyface of similar stature to bring him down from his unearned perch. John Cena answering that call on the night Big Dave first flattened 'The Game' helped WWE draw one of their biggest ever buyrates, so perhaps both of these boring b*stards objectively successful after all.
But try watching the weekly products they presided over on the WWE Network.
Like Superstars from 1992, Prime Time from 1988 and even Sunday Night Heat from 1999, every moment is captured and preserved on the service to be viewed as close to context as possible. Unlike all three of those other options, these editions of Raw and SmackDown are at times torturous. Ordinarily in wrestling the end justifies the means, but never before had a traditionally-babyface promotion relied so heavily on horrid, horrid heels.