10 Worst Wrestling World Title Reigns Ever

5. Diesel - November 26, 1994 To November 19, 1995

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Kevin 'Diesel' Nash, Detroit-born and thus haunted by how close we all are to economic disaster, had a certain philosophy when it came to professional wrestling: he was going to extract everything from it that he could with no significant emotional attachment to it.

He put in the graft when it was required - his own mischievous sense of humour is as much to blame as anything else for a reputation that precedes him - but he wasn't a big legacy guy. He cared about, for example, not looking like a total dork - he was among the first to address the residual cornball patina of the mid-'90s WWF - but he was motivated primarily by money. He wasn't going to make any if it wasn't hot. He wasn't mortally offended by the Goon or anything.

He applied this philosophy to the extreme at In Your House: Great White North where, nearing the end of a commercially disastrous WWF Title reign, he almost literally laid down and counted his money in what was, and this is only slightly hyperbolic, an 18-minute leg grapevine sequence.

That reign yielded some artistic highlights - Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels were tremendous at maximising Diesel's range in dynamic, masterful performances - but it also sh*t out several pay-per-view bores with Sycho Sid (oh no) and Mabel (oh for f*ck's f*cking sake) at the other end of the ring.

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