8 Wrestlers WWE Regret Making World Champion

There's no doubting 'Superstar' Billy Graham's place in wrestling history. Graham was positioned as the top tier heel who served as the link between Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund.

After returning to the then-WWWF in 1977, Superstar soon put an end to Sammartino's 1,237-day reign as the company's World Champion. And after a 296-day run of his own, Graham dropped the title to Backlund.

Despite his status as a trailblazer whose unique and colourful charisma helped to lay the foundations for what was to come from the likes of Hulk Hogan, Jesse Ventura, and Ric Flair, Vince McMahon and WWE must regret ever having any sort of association with Billy Graham.

In the years since his in-ring days came to an end, Graham has been involved in a whole host of unsavoury incidents that must surely have Vince pulling his wig out.

Even after Graham had sued WWE in 1994 on the accusation of forcing him to take steroids, then admitted to allegedly making up lies about sexual abuse within the company in order to extract money from McMahon, the company still put Superstar into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004.

Following that Hall of Fame induction, Billy Graham would sell his Hall of Fame ring in 2009, citing medical expenses. To an extent, that may be understandable, but Superstar went further to irk WWE by lambasting Linda McMahon during her 2010 Senate campaign, asking to be removed from the Hall of Fame after Abdullah the Butcher was inducted, and has spent time encouraging wrestlers such as Kofi Kingston and Adam Cole to take steroids.