20 Wrestlers You Totally Forgot Held WWE Championships

12. Scotty 2 Hotty (Light Heavyweight Champion)

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The WWE Light Heavyweight Championship was Vince McMahon’s answers to WCW’s highly-successful cruiserweight division, though it barely got off the ground. WWE rarely treated the belt as little more than an afterthought, and it struggled to generate any real value until Dean Malenko crossed over from WCW and made the division his own.

Even then, Malenko rarely defended his strap, but he did let Scotty 2 Hotty borrow it for a 10-day period back in 2000. Scotty won the title after beating Malenko on April 17th, 2000, but Malenko took it back on April 27th, and held it for close to a full year.

Scotty had a memorable run with WWE, though it was rarely strewn with championship gold. As Too Cool, he and Grand Master Sexay were an immensely popular act, but they were Tag Team Champions just once, and rarely troubled the likes of Edge & Christian and The Hardy Boyz. Still, Scotty was a solid hand for WWE for years, even after Sexay managed to get himself fired.

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