Ranking EVERY WWE Champion From Worst To Best
41. Chris Jericho
What a complex relationship Chris Jericho had with the WWE Championship.
Most will know that the above picture comes from just moments before his first victory for it was expunged from the records by Triple H after a Earl Hebner fast-counted him, and when he got it for real 18 months later, he learned about it from Vince McMahon and The Undertaker joking about how useless it would be.
Jericho wasn't really given too many opportunities to prove them wrong, and when he lost it (again to Triple H) at WrestleMania X8 in a main event that couldn't follow the real headline attraction of Hollywood Hulk Hogan Vs The Rock, few clamoured for him to get back to the top of the mountain. Technically, he never did.
By the time 'Y2J' became a bona fide main eventer within the company, he was dropping that nickname entirely and carrying the World Heavyweight Championship around instead. His 97 days on top in 2002 paled in comparison to what he was able to produce several years later, but with titles and brands split apart, he was too deep in the quest to cling on to the big gold belt to win another one.