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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jul 27, 2012 22:09:41 GMT -5
For the purpose of the list, these are people who never won the WWE Championship, World Heavyweight Championship, WCW Championship, ECW Championship or AWA Championship. These were listed by alphabetical order, not by any particular ranking, so hopefully there aren't any arguments about someone being too low or too high. Anyway, they're in the spoiler tag: www.wwe.com/classics/20-legends-who-never-won-a-world-title{Spoiler}Arn Anderson The British Bulldog "Chief" Jay Strongbow Dean Malenko George "The Animal" Steele Goldust Greg "The Hammer" Valentine The Honky Tonk Man Jake "The Snake" Roberts Jesse "The Body" Ventura Junkyard Dog Marty Jannetty Magnum T.A. "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff Rikishi "Rowdy" Roddy Piper Scott Hall Tatanka William Regal
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Post by Bravo Echo November on Jul 27, 2012 22:19:04 GMT -5
A real shame that Piper hasn't won a world title.
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Post by Andy Martin on Jul 27, 2012 22:24:21 GMT -5
Did Mr. Perfect win a world title?
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Jul 27, 2012 22:25:22 GMT -5
Did Mr. Perfect win a world title? They seem to count AWA as a World Title
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Post by cherry coloured funk on Jul 27, 2012 22:27:31 GMT -5
WHERE THE f*** IS AMBROSE?
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Post by wcw on Jul 27, 2012 22:35:08 GMT -5
Scott Hall had the talent, look, and mic skills and overall it factor to be a multi time world champ. Shame he couldn't put it together due to his personal demons.
As for Piper he likely could have won a WCW title in his 1996-1997 feud against Hogan, and he was certainly over enough in the mid to late 80's in the WWF. But for Piper the WWF title in the 80's had long reigns and not everyone that could have been a champ was, and in WCW his window where he could have won a title just wasn't big enough and of course he ran into Hogan and a over crowded roster.
As for the rest of the list I am not surprised, most of those guys just didn't have the talent to put it all together or they didn't capitalize on the one big push that they got.
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Post by The Portable Stove on Jul 27, 2012 22:36:51 GMT -5
I would have dug a Double-A run with the WCW World Title, but that probably would have been for him to lose it to Hogan or Flair at some point.
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Post by wwfmark on Jul 27, 2012 22:43:56 GMT -5
No Owen? Should be on there over Jannetty and R|ikishi for sure
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2012 22:50:13 GMT -5
Scott Hall was a huge part of why wrestling was cool in the 90s, he's always the first I think of when this issue comes up. He had good size, sold great, had the best punch in wrestling, had a unique and iconic finisher, and could work with just about anyone, any size, any spot on the card. WCW fans wanted to love the guy, and wanted him and Nash to be friends like they obviously were in real life. If they would've given the fans what they wanted, a babyface title run for Hall with Nash having his back, it would've been huge for them. Hall obviously isn't reliable enough to handle such a push though, it's tragic.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jul 27, 2012 22:54:33 GMT -5
Scott Hall was a huge part of why wrestling was cool in the 90s, he's always the first I think of when this issue comes up. He had good size, sold great, had the best punch in wrestling, had a unique and iconic finisher, and could work with just about anyone, any size, any spot on the card. WCW fans wanted to love the guy, and wanted him and Nash to be friends like they obviously were in real life. If they would've given the fans what they wanted, a babyface title run for Hall with Nash having his back, it would've been huge for them. Hall obviously isn't reliable enough to handle such a push though, it's tragic. It's a shame he could never conquer his demons. Even today, I would wager that the screeching of the car wheels would cause a massive ovation in any arena.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 27, 2012 22:55:51 GMT -5
Not a bad list, but this man trumps pretty much all names on the list
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Jul 27, 2012 23:07:12 GMT -5
Glad to see Goldust on this list, he really did deserve a reign.
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Post by Citizen Grimm on Jul 28, 2012 0:24:24 GMT -5
Damn right Ted Dibiase deserved a world title reign.
Yeah, I'm still pissed at Hogan for WM IV.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 28, 2012 0:28:05 GMT -5
Most of the guys on that list weren't world title material anyway.
Marty Jannetty? Seriously?
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Post by Crusty Ruffles on Jul 28, 2012 0:30:07 GMT -5
Marty Jannetty and Rikishi?
....the f***?
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jul 28, 2012 0:55:00 GMT -5
I think that if it weren't for Jannetty's problems, he and Shawn Michaels would both be big stars, or at the very least the gap between their individual accomplishments would be minimal to barely non-existant, like Edge/Christian or Miz/Morrison. We wouldn't see Jannetty being brought back just to job to whomever HBK was feuding with at the time. And we wouldn't have had Miz & Morrison's ridiculous feud over "Who's the Michaels and Who's the Jannetty".
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Post by BigBadZ on Jul 28, 2012 1:06:14 GMT -5
Did Mr. Perfect win a world title? They seem to count AWA as a World Title Same question with Rick Rude? He was in a picture with Jake Roberts but not on the list
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Post by turkeysandwich on Jul 28, 2012 1:27:46 GMT -5
Seriously, Jesse Ventura is my favorite announcer in WWE/F history. But while he could talk and look cool, he was pretty bad in the ring and actually had a pretty short career as a competitor, I don't think anybody really thought of him as being a world champion type back then. He was definitely best suited for Tag Teams so that he could work with someone who could bounce around the ring like Adonis.
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Post by cool guy on Jul 28, 2012 1:39:23 GMT -5
I kind of wish Umaga made the list. Not that I really disagree with their choices, it just would have been cool is all.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 28, 2012 1:58:47 GMT -5
Marty Jannetty and Rikishi? ....the f***? Hey, Rikishi was good in the ring, had charisma, and was massively over. If he would have gotten a WWE Title run in 2000, it wouldn't have been that big of a stretch.
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