Ranking Every WWE Grand Slam Champion From Worst To Best
15. Rob Van Dam
The first on this list to take the traditional route to Grand Slam supremacy, Rob Van Dam's WWE Title reign came four years too late to establish him as a top guy and only a few months removed from the death of Eddie Guerrero for a police drugs bust not to result in the worst possible consequences.
Ironic considering the circumstances behind his WWE and ECW Title losses on consecutive nights in 2006, but RVD was at one point the trusted choice for WWE's brave new world following the original 2002 brand extension. Keen to consolidate all of Raw's titles into one super-belt, the company booked Van Dam to unify the Hardcore and European Titles in with the Intercontinental Championship.
The prestige he delicately established was crudely destroyed just weeks later though, when his title disappeared altogether in an uncomfortably familiar Triple H power trip. Van Dam transitioned the title on to Chris Jericho beforehand in order for babyface Kane to snare the prize for an eventual unification match with 'The Game'.
RVD scrambled around for midcard crumbs until his eventual 2006 ascension, but even in the afterglow of the briefly revered ECW reunion, the true love was lost.