10 Wrestling Bookers Who Made Themselves World Champion

1. Kevin Nash

Sometimes, when booker/wrestlers put the title on themselves, it's a good decision. Sometimes, it's questionable. Other times, it's Kevin Nash.

Kevin Nash became booker of WCW in early 1999, but even before then, the wheels were in motion for him to take the reigns and he was wielding creative influence. In November of 1998, he won the 60-man, three-ring battle royal known as World War 3, and the following month, he pinned Bill Goldberg to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.

Goldberg, who was still undefeated until the Nash match, had been WCW's biggest draw throughout 1998. After losing, he was still WCW's biggest draw, but that didn't carry the same weight that it once did - he was no longer able to keep the company in contention with WWE. Nash killed WCW's golden goose to line his and his friends' pockets, and it was one of the largest nails in what would become WCW's coffin.