6 Terrible Final Holders Of Wrestling Championships
2. WCW Cruiserweight Tag - The Filthy Animals
Did you know there was such a thing as the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship? Well there was, and shame on you for sleeping on its epic eight day legacy.
The oft-forgotten belts were actually a fairly good idea in principle. As WCW's Cruiserweight division had ballooned in the parsimonious end times, the company reasoned that a tag division would help give exposure to a greater number of their young sub-225lbers. And so, after a month long tournament - one which featured a fresh-faced AJ Styles bowing out in the first round alongside Air Paris - Elix Skipper & Kid Romeo were crowned the inaugural champions at Greed.
Ironically, though amongst the more obscure titles in the history of major wrestling promotions, the straps were actually given a fairly prominent role in easily the most watched Nitro of WCW's dying days. On the last ever edition of the primetime TNT broadcast, the incumbents squared off - and lost - against beaten finalists Rey Misterio Jr. (sic) and Billy Kidman.
Neither The Filthy Animals' quality nor fizzing popularity were ever in question. The problem was that WCW, going forwards, had pegged the pair in the Cruiserweight Tag league, of all things. Not, ultimately, that it especially mattered: the company folded on the very night of the misallocated duo's triumph.