9 WWE Champions You Didn't Care Enough To Hate

The mid-1990s is regarded by wrestling historians as a period of transition for the WWE, epitomised perhaps more than anything else by the fact that Diesel ended up holding the title for nearly a whole year.

It's not that we're trying to disparage Kevin Nash, who went on to enjoy a starring role in the Monday Night Wars after jumping ship to Nitro a couple of years later - rather, he just wasn't quite ready to be the next face of the company.

The matches we got out of it, save for a couple with Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart, were largely forgettable, and - though there was plenty of reason to get behind HBK pursuing his boyhood dream - the reactions, as a result, were often only lukewarm.

For all his sins, Diesel was simply a man out of his depth, and one whose vanilla character struggled to command the sort of reactions expected of a wrestler carrying world title gold for over 350 days.