Stats: 4x champion (140-day combined reign) What Ric Flair was to the big gold belt, DLo Brown was to the European Championship. After defeating Triple H for the title on the July 20, 1998 episode of Raw (further advancing the long-running rivalry between DLos Nation of Domination stable and Hunters D-Generation X), Brown kicked off the first of four reigns as European Champion, tied for the most in WWE history. He never had a single reign that lasted longer than 64 days, but Brown brought a certain level of credibility to the title and made it an integral part of WWEs mid-card during the late 90s. During his stints as champion, Brown would be introduced as hailing from different parts of Europe, making him the first WWE superstar to adopt that gimmick (it was later used to weirder effect by Al Snow during his reign in 2000). After defeating Mideon at the Fully Loaded pay-per-view event in July 1999, Brown became WWEs first ever Eurocontinental champion, meaning he held both European and Intercontinental titles. Its very likely that DLos career was never meant to rise above the WWEs secondary and tertiary titles, but things did take an unfortunate turn when Brown accidentally botched a powerbomb on the wrestler Droz during a taping of Smackdown in 1999. Droz suffered a sever neck injury and was paralyzed. Afterwards, Brown mostly fought in tag teams on secondary programs like Sunday Night Heat and Jakked. Still, Brown was the first to accomplish so many things with the European Championship, its difficult not to place him near the top of this list.
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