10 Wrestlers Who Were Only World Champion Because Of The Brand Split
7. Mark Henry
Mark Henry is technically a multiple World Champion, having won the ECW Championship and then given a run on Smackdown with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
It seemed to take Henry a decade or more to click and realise his potential, and his whole Hall of Pain shtick made for great television. Even then, though, his World Heavyweight Championship run felt like it was largely a case of rewarding his loyalty.
If it wasn't for the brand split then Henry may never have had the chance to reach his potential and finally find himself as a performer, and if that was the case then there's a chance that he may even have been future endeavoured let alone given a main event push and a run as the World Heavyweight Champion.
More than any other talent on this list, the brand split allowed Mark Henry to develop hugely as a performer, going from a stale monster who had never gotten over to becoming the alpha male beast that we've seen since around 2011.