10 WWE Champions Who Didn't Draw
6. Sycho Sid
WWE fans turned on Shawn Michaels toward the end of his first title reign - so much so that when he lost the title to Sycho Sid at Survivor Series 1996, elated Madison Square Garden fans cheered the hero's defeat. Unfortunately, that auspicious start wasn't enough to make Sid anything other than a flop as champion.
He defended the title against Vader at In Your House: It's Time, which drew the second-lowest buyrate of the In Your House era. After that, he defended the title against Michaels at the Royal Rumble. With the show taking place in HBK's hometown of San Antonio, WWE booked the Alamodome, but they couldn't fill it. The PPV buyrate was down from the previous year.
Michaels won at the Rumble, but when he vacated the title rather than lose it to Bret Hart, Sid ended up with the belt once again. That set up a Sid-Undertaker WrestleMania main event, which stands, to this day, as the lowest drawing 'Mania headliner of all time. Sid would never hold the WWE Title again, but he amassed a few WCW Championship reigns during the organization's dying days.