25 WWE Champions Who Never Got Their Rematch
13. Rob Van Dam
Title Lost: WWE Championship
Lost Title To: Edge
Rob Van Dam was flying high during the summer of 2006. Mr. Monday Night was also Mr. Money in the Bank, and he used that briefcase to defeat John Cena at One Night Stand and become the only man to hold the WWE and ECW Championships at the same time.
For a month, RVD was on top of the WWE landscape, ruling both Raw and ECW. It looked like after years of trying to break through the glass ceiling in WWE, Van Dam had arrived.
And then he and Sabu were busted with drugs in their car. Just three weeks into his reign, RVD would drop both titles on successive nights to Edge (WWE) and Big Show (ECW) because he was facing a 30-day suspension. While Van Dam would receive a rematch against Show, he never got a chance to get revenge on Edge and reclaim the title.
In hindsight, that was RVD’s peak in WWE. He left and would return a few times for short runs with the company, but he hasn’t sniffed gold like that since then.