8 Wrestlers Who Surprisingly Never Held WWE Gold

It doesn't take much to get your hands on some championship gold in WWE these days. Finn Bálor picked up the Universal title in his very first pay-per-view outing at SummerSlam, and even lowly under-carders like Heath Slater - who, in kayfabe terms, is supposed to be a figure of derision - can lay claim to multiple tag team reigns.

This is partly a consequence of the brand extension, which - both in its original 2002 incarnation and the current one - has helped present long-time mid-carders with the opportunity to step up the main event, in turn leaving spaces lower down the show to be filled by rookies and comedy jobbers. Of course, there are also more belts than ever before too, each brand now having its own tag team and women's titles.

Even in this hot potato era, though, there are some wrestlers who have found title reigns hard to come by. Case in point: Bray Wyatt, who only recently broke his duck by winning SmackDown's tag team straps at TLC (and even then he only makes up one third of the champions). Imagine, then, how the stars of yesteryear who failed to pick up a single championship win during their time under Vince McMahon's employment must feel.

Here are 8 WWE wrestlers who surprisingly never held a title.

Elijah Burke - later 'D'Angelo Dinero' in TNA, for those who missed it - was supposed to be one of WWE's stars of tomorrow when he earned his call up to the main roster (well, ECW at least) in 2006. In the early goings, he was the chief antagonist of the ECW Originals, alongside fellow New Breed members like Marcus Cor Von and Kevin Thorn, and... well, it's probably not all that surprising that his once promising WWE career ended up turning sour.

It's at least a little surprising, though, that he didn't get a run with the ECW Championship. Granted, Burke was replaced as the main heel on Tuesday nights by John Morrison in 2007, but he did end up feuding with CM Punk later on in the year without managing to capture the belt. Seriously, Ezekiel Jackson held this thing - exactly who did Burke p*ss off?