1. Diesel - The Worst Ever Draw In Wrestling
Bret Hart was so bad as a drawing champion that Vince McMahon replaced him with Diesel. Oh dear. Things quickly accelerated from bad to worst, the company losing more money than it was making. Such was Nash's inability as a draw that Bret Hart actually ended up making more in royalties than Nash did over the Diesel title reign period. The ship very nearly sank with Nash manning the helm. The drop off in pay per view business was at its very hardest. Wrestlemania lost 80,000 buyers from the previous year, Summerslam 95,000 buys down and Survivor Series 95 posted 128,000 buys - down from 254,00 in 1994. That marked the end of Diesel as champion, jobbing the title to Bret Hart on that November night. Everything had gone down in his run - ticket sales, ppv buys, merchandise. As the only champion to nearly bankrupt the company, Nash is way out in front on this list. It's amazing that the WWF kept the title on him so long when you think about it, although on paper this big man worker should have worked. A return to Bret didn't remedy business, and Shawn Michaels couldn't muster an improvement either. It would take the hottest act in the history of wrestling to finally restore drawing power to the WWF Championship. Conversely, as Steve Austin was revolutionisng the business on Raw, Nash was now on WCW and killing their product ... arguably one of the very main factors in WCW's demise.