Every WWE Champion From The '90s Ranked Worst To Best

Number of Reigns: 2

Total Length: 118 Days

For years, Flair had been the face of the NWA, but in 1991, he was in Vince’s Carnival of Carnivores. Soon after, Flair lasted an hour in the Royal Rumble to win the vacant WWF Championship. While Naitch's title win is iconic, the same cannot be said about his subsequent runs. Initially slated to work a program with Hulk Hogan, a series of underperforming house shows dampened Vince’s enthusiasm, so Hogan was shuffled off to work with Sid at WrestleMania, whereas Flair and Savage fought for the title in the midcard, with Macho winning.

Whether it was because Flair wasn’t a typical WWE wrestler and thus too much of an outsider, he simply wasn’t as big a draw as he was down south. Flair would win the title again in September, but it was a strictly transitional reign, as he dropped it weeks later to Bret Hart in Saskatoon, and he would leave the company in January of 1993, returning to WCW. Naitch accomplished a great deal in every promotion he worked for, and while he wasn’t the greatest WWF Champion, the fact that he, the face of WCW, won it when he did is quite the feat.