Who’s the best wrestler to never win a WWE or NWA/WCW world title?

[TL15]

Piper racist as he was shoulda been a world champ

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

Disagree. Perfect as a face wouldn't have worked in a Bret reign. Perfect as a heel though should have beaten Hogan at some point. Win it after winning the 1990 Rumble and drop it back at Wrestlemania 6 to Warrior or Hogan.

Perfect was more over than Bret was when he turned face in Nov. 92 and fans viewed him as a main event guy more than Bret at the time who was IC champ and lost that title earlier that year so Perfect had more credibility as a top guy than Bret did, IMO. Plus Perfect had a ready-made feud with Flair so him taking the belt off him makes much more sense than Bret doing it. If it bombs, they have him drop it to Yoko just like Bret did, no harm done.

You're right about Hogan in '90 but he might have been a lot more open to working with Perfect in '93 or at least more open to working with him than he was with Bret.

 

[Hey_zeus]

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[JQ Legend]

Rude technically was WCW World champ when they briefly had 2 world championships in the early 90s

 

[hazardous]

My vote would go to either Piper who should've had a run with the belt in 84-85 or Dibiase would should've won it at WMIV, IMO.

That was actually the original plan until Honky Tonk Man refused to drop the IC belt to Savage, which is why Macho Man ended up winning the tournament.

It's egregious that Owen didn't get a run considering how long he was with the company (93-99). Ditto with Scott Hall. Hennig is another one, but after SummerSlam 91 he would drift in and out of the company and never stayed for an extended period of time.

 

[FRIED MASON]

Ted Dibiase bought the championship.

 

[staticshock]

Chris Masters

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

That was actually the original plan until Honky Tonk Man refused to drop the IC belt to Savage, which is why Macho Man ended up winning the tournament.

It's egregious that Owen didn't get a run considering how long he was with the company (93-99). Ditto with Scott Hall. Hennig is another one, but after SummerSlam 91 he would drift in and out of the company and never stayed for an extended period of time.

Yeah, it was a domino effect that started with Steamboat asking for time off after beating Savage for the IC title at WMIII, Butch Reed was supposed to get the title from Steamboat but no-shows the event, so in a scramble they put the belt on Honky Tonk Man.

I never understood why Honky wouldn't job to Savage in what would presumably be a hard fought 20 minute match that still makes him look good in a loss but is totally cool with getting squashed by the Warrior in like 10 seconds at Summerslam '88. That never made sense to me.

I agree, Owen should've gotten a run (or at least a cup of coffee) with title during his feud with Bret. The closest we ever got was this little teaser in '94

Ted Dibiase bought the championship.

Yeah, Andre beat Hogan in the famous crooked referee match and gave the belt to Dibiase, he wore it a couple times at house shows and was even announced as champion coming to the ring, but the WWF never acknowledged him as champion and the title was vacated days later which led to the tournament at WMIV.

If you look at WWE's title history they still don't list him as a world champion, it goes from Hogan to Andre and then to Savage. WWE Championship

 

[LiveFromLondon]

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