Ranking All 50 WWE World Heavyweight Champions - From Worst To Best

21. Diesel

WWE Champions
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His controversial year-long reign was one lost to time as the lowest-drawing in company history, but while Diesel may not have been the man to turn around company fortunes at their worst, he was an underappreciated big man in his own time.

Bookending battles with Bret Hart in 1995 were sensational, and 'Big Daddy Cool' wore an unapologetic grin working alongside and against Shawn Michaels either side of 'HBK's mid-year babyface turn.

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