10 Wrestlers Who Didn't Know What To Do With Title Belts

9. Bray Wyatt (Universal Championship)

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Cursed before he'd even won the f*cking thing, Bray Wyatt as Universal Champion never really felt right. And that was before WWE had to start messing around with the physical incarnations of the troubled title.

Having failed in his first attempt to defeat and dethrone Seth Rollins, The Fiend - he of indestructible magical powers - managed it at the second attempt following the grim main event of the even grimmer Crown Jewel 2019.

Wyatt jumped from Raw to SmackDown in the weeks that followed, resulting in the red belt switching to blue thanks to magic powers. The sparkling strap that always looks sublime slung over Roman Reigns' shoulder wasn't long for the world around the waist of Wyatt.

The character introduced a Fiend-themed custom title that achieved infamy not just for how it looked but for how it convinced people to part with four figures to own their own. The character must have cast some sort of spell on the audience, because he looked a total pillock with it on camera and yet the dollars rolled in.

Fittingly, it disappeared about as quickly as the character's momentum after Goldberg flattened him at Super ShowDown 2020.

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