8 Wrestlers WWE Regret Making World Champion
1. Chris Jericho
From 2008 until 2010, Chris Jericho embarked on a legendary heel run that is easily one of the best of the modern era. During those years, the self-proclaimed Best in the World at What He Does managed to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship an impressive three times.
While WWE is likely mildly irked that those reigns are now attached to a top star in rival promotion AEW, it's Jericho's time as WWE's first ever Undisputed Champion that's the focus of attention here.
The simple fact of the matter is that there can only ever be one first Undisputed WWE Champion. And as much as it surely now gets under the skin of WWE brass, that first was Chris Jericho.
For WWE, they now get to see the top star of a potential rival organisation parading around and proudly proclaiming himself as the first ever Undisputed Champ. There's no direct mention of WWE in Le Champion's words, yet everybody knows that this is clearly a reference to the December 2001 Vengeance PPV which saw Jericho defeat The Rock and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin in the same night to hold the newly-created biggest prize in the business.
You can only imagine how much Vince McMahon must now regret handing that prestigious Undisputed WWE Champion honour to Jericho back on that '01 night - and how much Vince must cry himself to sleep at the fact that Triple H was out injured during the crowning of the inaugural Undisputed WWE Champion.