Sometimes WWE champions put everything on the line to face a challenger. Why you might ask? Because some no-names get a shot at earning the most prestigious title in WWE history! Join Adam Hailing in this trip down memory lane of 10 wrestlers that challenged for the WWE championship title!
What are some wrestlers that you know that we didn't mention in the video? Let us know in the comments!
00:00 Introduction
01:22 #10
02:27 #9
03:34 #8
04:19 #7
05:16 #6
06:05 #5
07:04 #4
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00:00 Introduction
01:22 #10
02:27 #9
03:34 #8
04:19 #7
05:16 #6
06:05 #5
07:04 #4
07:57 #3
08:57 #2
10:07 #1
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00:00The WWE Championship, the richest prize in the game, the mountaintop, the Big Kahuna
00:07Burger, the Juicy Plum, Daddy's Little Gentleman, Megan Sparkle, The Golden Place Around The
00:14Waist, The Old Chungus, Metal Darren, John Cena's BFF, The Gemstone Baron of Sussex
00:20County, The Original Shiny, Golden Delicious, Nameplate Q Thunderdump, Spintabulous Glitter
00:27Pinch, The Old Timey Glimmer and Snap, Spit and Polish Experience, and Douglas, a prestigious
00:33bit of hardware competed for by the biggest players in the game, The Rock, Austin, Cena,
00:38Hogan, Maven on Raw in January 2002, Batista, Triple H, Ric Flair, the list goes on.
00:45But did you know that some truly silly names have challenged for the most prestigious championship
00:49in WWE history?
00:51Names that don't quite belong in the aforementioned pantheon.
00:54Let's take a trip down memory lane and have a look at some matches, all of them televised,
00:58some of them on pay-per-view, where the WWE Champion put everything on the line against
01:02a challenger that makes you say, him?
01:04I'm Adam, hailing from partsFUNknown, and here are 10 Wrestlers You Forgot Challenged
01:08For The WWE Championship.
01:10Before we start the list, what's your favourite design of the WWE Championship?
01:14Big eagle all the way over here, but let us know below and like and subscribe to partsFUNknown
01:19for more silly wrestling lists.
01:2210.
01:23Goldberg
01:24Oh, he's the silliest man.
01:25The figurehead of WWF being a catty little mister during the Monday Night Wars, over
01:30in WCW they had Goldberg.
01:33Have you heard of him?
01:34He fought for the WWE Championship at Summerslam.
01:36Wasn't that silly?
01:37He was a big dude who killed medium dudes and entered to terrifying pyro.
01:42Vince responded by transforming Dwayne Gill into Gilberg, a tadpole dude who died often,
01:48and came out to sparklers and aggressive fire extinguishers.
01:51Oh, and he was also WWF Light Heavyweight Champion for 15 f***ing months.
01:56How do you do?
01:57During that reign, or to be specific, on August 31st, 1999's episode of Smackdown, he had
02:02a shot at an upgrade when he wrestled Triple H for the WWF title in the greatest champion
02:07vs champion match since Hogan and Warrior.
02:09He actually got a spear in on Trips, which popped the crowd before proceeding to be murdered
02:13in the kind of arrogant champion puts his title on the line against a jobber that WWE
02:17have repeated many times since.
02:19See also Brock destroying Paul London for the Undisputed title in October 2003, and
02:23Sheamus killing Zack Ryder with the spinner belt on the line in August 2010.
02:279.
02:28Cody Rhodes
02:29I think it's fair to say that AEW really needs to see a surgeon about that chip on
02:33its shoulder.
02:34At the start it was all good fun, Cody doing a Gilberg level squash on a giant f***ing
02:39chair before staring down the lens for 10 minutes saying, do you get it?
02:43But while Cody has many legitimate reasons to hate the big dub, most of them polka dot
02:48The one thing he can't claim is that he never got a chance to compete for the WWE Championship
02:52because that is technically what happened on Raw on the 31st of August 2009.
02:58See that night, the guest host of Raw turned out to be the American Dream Dusty Rhodes
03:01who cut a prome about how much he loved his son, who was actually a heel at the time as
03:06part of Legacy.
03:07The champion, Randy Orton, put his title on the line against Cody, who holy s*** really
03:11looked like Lazy Town's Robbie Rotten at the time, with John Cena a special guest ref.
03:15The actual match broke down almost immediately, with it being revealed to be a Legacy ambush
03:19on Big Match John, but hell, the match is technically in the books.
03:23But if you're not convinced by that and think this is a wasted entry, Val Venus fought
03:26The Rock for the WWE Championship on the October 12th, 2000 episode of Smackdown while dressed
03:31as a milkman.
03:32Venus rhymes with penis.
03:338.
03:34Spike Dudley
03:35Spike Dudley is often referred to as the runt of the Dudley litter, but out of all his brothers,
03:38including Big Dick Dudley, never forget him, he's actually had the most WWE Championship
03:43matches in his career.
03:45to having none.
03:46Bubba Ray fought Kurt Angle for the strap on Smackdown in December 2000, but Spike has
03:50fought for the former Winged Eagle not once, but twice.
03:53In the main event of Smackdown, June 14th, 2001, Spike fought Steve Austin for the belt,
03:58and actually lasted four minutes, good for him.
04:01Three years later, on July 1st, 2004, the week after dethroning Eddie Guerrero for the
04:05WWE Championship boo, JBL defended the black and gold against Spike again in the main event
04:10of Smackdown, and Spike lasted almost twice as long, even nailing the Dudley dog for a
04:14near fall.
04:15Turns out, Steve Austin is better than JBL, it's finally official.
04:197.
04:20Crash Holly
04:21We almost put Hardcore Holly on this list, but I reckon most of our fans remember his
04:24incongruous match for the WWE Championship at the 2004 Royal Rumble, a fleeting main
04:29event promotion as a way of saying, you know, sorry about the whole Brock accidentally breaking
04:33your neck thing.
04:34It's a fairly well-known little wrestling courier, but did you know that both Holly cousins
04:38have wrestled for the big belt?
04:40Yes, just over three years earlier, on the 13th November Raw in 2000, little Crash Holly
04:45had the opportunity to add a WWE Championship run to his 22 Hardcore title reigns.
04:50The show opened with current champ Kurt Angle declaring himself the most fightingest champion
04:55in WWE history, offering to fight a certain superstar who would have his arm tied behind
04:59his back.
05:00That superstar was Crash Holly, arm tied behind his back because damn, gotta make this match
05:04up fair somehow I guess.
05:06Despite going on to stack the deck against Angle by untying his arm, that wasn't part
05:10of the deal Crash, Angle was able to overcome the odds, survive a near fall, before locking
05:14in the ankle lock for a quick win.
05:166.
05:17Eric Bischoff
05:18Good for you dad, you silly karate bastard.
05:20On October 3rd, 2005, WWE had a special homecoming episode of Monday Night Raw, with the program
05:26returning to the USA Network after five years with the channel then known as Spike TV.
05:32How do you celebrate such a momentous occasion?
05:34First of all, bring back Steve Austin to stun every member of the McMahon family, that
05:38works.
05:39Next, have a Kurt Angle vs Shawn Michaels Iron Man match, yes please I'll take seconds.
05:43Third, have Eric Bischoff wrestle John Cena for the WWE Championship in a no disqualification
05:48match with Kurt Angle sat at ringside like he's front row at a strip club.
05:51Did my dad win the WWE Championship?
05:54He did his best.
05:56Angle accidentally hit himself in the head with a chair, then one FU later, Bischoff
05:59was done.
06:005.
06:01The Fabulous Moolah
06:02By accounts, Fabulous Moolah was the worst, with heaps of allegations against her for
06:03ripping off her trainees, trainees she would allegedly pimp out to other promoters, she
06:04helped screw Wendy Richter back in the 80s.
06:05She sounds terrible.
06:06Moolah famously beat Ivory to become WWF Women's Champion in 1999 at the ripe old
06:07age of 76.
06:08However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:09to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:10Moolah was the first female WWE Champion to win the WWE Championship.
06:11However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:12to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:13However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:29to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:30However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:31to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:32However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:33to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:34However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:35to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:36However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:37to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:38However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:39to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:40However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:41to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:42However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:43to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:44However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:45to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:46However, three years later, on the 28th November episode of Smackdown in 2002, Moolah came
06:47to the ring, 79 years of age, with the title of Women's Champion.
06:48But there's more.
07:02a near fall on trips as well.
07:044.
07:05Farouk
07:06It shouldn't really be much of a surprise that Ron Simmons got a WWE Championship match
07:09at some point in his career, after all, the man became the first African American to win
07:12the WCW World Heavyweight title, but in WWE he would always be remembered as a midcard,
07:18his most famous run being one half of the APA, Always Pounding Ass.
07:21However, before he was Always Pounding Ass, he used to be the leader of the Nation of
07:25Domination, a faction that helped usher in the Attitude Era throughout the late 90s,
07:29peaking with Farouk receiving a WWF Championship match on f***ing pay-per-view no less.
07:35At King of the Ring 1997, Farouk, accompanied by members of the Nation, took on reigning
07:40champion The Undertaker, Crush was part of the Nation back then, lol Crush what are you
07:44doing there?
07:45It was a 13 minute match that was really quite boring indeed I'll be honest, which goes
07:48some way towards explaining why it's so easily forgotten.
07:51After the match, Ahmed Johnson beat up The Undertaker.
07:53Did Ahmed Johnson get a WWF title match?
07:56He did not.
07:573.
07:58The Patriots
07:59In peace, Dell Wilkes, the man behind the Patriot mask, who passed away in June earlier
08:03this year, the Patriot wrestled throughout the world during his career, including a cup
08:06of coffee in WWE, for about 6 months in 1997.
08:10Most fans remember him for having a pretty kickass entrance theme that would go on to
08:13be known the world over as Metal, Kurt Angle's entrance music.
08:17Years before Angle would make his debut, that music sounded before a match for the WWF Championship
08:21at In Your House, Ground Zero in September 1997.
08:26When Bret Hart was in the middle of his Yay Canada, Boo USA feud that gradually everyone
08:30else in the world would come to realise was a righteous cause, Bret Hart way ahead of
08:33his time as usual, to bolster that feud, the Patriot was rushed into a title match with
08:37Hart to try and sell as many flags as humanly possible.
08:40The highlight of the match saw the Patriot lock Bret in his own sharpshooter, though
08:43Bret would of course emerge victorious.
08:45The Patriot only had 3 PPV matches in WWF before succumbing to a triceps injury and
08:49being released shortly thereafter, but when one of your 3 matches on PPV was a 20 minute
08:53bout against WWF Champion Bret Hart, pretty good going.
08:572.
08:58X-Park Ah, the original Karate Kid, DX on, DX off.
09:02Sean Waltman had two major lifetimes in WWE, the first as the 1-2-3 kid who was very good
09:07but looked like he was about to burst into tears at the slightest breeze, and the second
09:10as X-Park who was very good but spent most of the time doing hateful kung fu poses like
09:14your mum's new boyfriend.
09:16Neither gimmick strayed above the midcard, but amazingly both iterations of DX's most
09:20earnest penis indicator received shots at the WWF Championship.
09:24The 1-2-3 kid got a shot against Bret Hart's Winged Eagle in what I imagine was a whopping
09:2817 minutes, which was super rare at the time, and it was caught by the commentator-odd couple
09:32of JR and Macho Man Randy Savage and was really bloody great.
09:36Four years later, in 1998, the WWF produced the UK-exclusive PPV Capital Carnage, a show
09:42famous for featuring Vinny Jones, Jacqueline having her top ripped off, and JR suffering
09:46a tachybel's palsy during the show.
09:48With all that going on, it's easy to forget that the WWF Championship match was, on that
09:51card, the Corporate Champion The Rock putting his Big Eagle belt on the line against X-Park
09:56in a rematch of another WWF title match the two had on Raw three weeks earlier, and in
10:01both cases those matches were… fine.
10:03It was the late 90s, it was run in Central.
10:06They were fine.
10:071.
10:08The Brian Kendrick
10:09Brian Kendrick was, and remains, awesome.
10:12He was the emotional heart of the Cruiserweight Classic, looks like what would have happened
10:15if Charles Manson had gotten into disco instead of cult, and in the late 2000s his gimmick
10:19of the Brian Kendrick was really great, a sort of Jack Sparrow rocker slash drug-addled
10:25swan.
10:26It was a lot of fun.
10:27He won the right to compete for the WWE Championship in a championship scramble at Unforgiven 2008,
10:31in a match that featured guys who also never otherwise got title shots, MVP and Shelton
10:36Benjamin.
10:37What makes the story even more fun is that not only was this Cruiserweight with the odd
10:40gimmick getting an incongruous title shot, but he actually, sort of, won the WWE Championship.
10:46Kinda.
10:47See the rules of the scramble, and now I just really want a plate of eggs but I'll get
10:50through that, stated that the match would last exactly 20 minutes, superstars enter
10:54every 5, if you pinned someone you became interim WWE Champion, and whoever was champ
11:00at the end of the match officially won the title.
11:02Shortly after he arrived, Kendrick pinned Jeff Hardy, became interim most prestigious
11:07champion in all of wrestling, held it for 6 minutes before being pinned by Triple H.
11:12It's officially not part of WWE canon, so Kendrick is unique as not only receiving a
11:17forgotten WWE Championship match, but a forgotten WWE Championship reign, all 6 minutes of it.
11:23And that's our list.
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