Unfortunately, this one was a lot easier to write. These are the 10 worst WWE World Heavyweight Championship Reigns ever.
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00:56 - 10
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04:52 - 6
05:57 - 5
07:01 - 4
08:14 - 3
09:17 - 2
10:26 - 1
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00:00 Now I will say right off the bat that I love the big gold belt
00:03 It may come from a place of nostalgia as this title was a big deal when I started watching wrestling
00:08 But when I think of the world heavyweight championship, I smile
00:12 Well that is until I had to write this list because I did not realize just how lousy
00:17 So many of the title reigns in the big gold belts big gold lineage were
00:21 Constant title changes after a month or two triple H on top
00:25 It's a bad time but before WWE brings back the big gold belt with its new big gold haircut
00:31 We must take a look at the crap. Hopefully they do it right this time. We've looked at the best now here the worst
00:37 I'm tempest hailing from parts fun known and these are the 10 worst
00:40 WWE World Heavyweight Championship reigns ever
00:43 But before we get on with this list make sure of course that you like this video subscribe and enable
00:47 Notifications to always on so you never miss a list just like it and make sure you check out last week's list where we looked
00:52 At the best reigns that the World Heavyweight Championship ever had to offer number 10 Randy Orton's first reign
00:58 What is the biggest thing you've ever done out of spite if your answer is anything less petty than crowning a new World Heavyweight
01:04 Champion before they were ready for the sole purpose of erasing the guy you're mad at from the history books then congratulations
01:10 You're not as spiteful as Vince McMahon in
01:12 2004 who should leave WWE but Brock Lesnar taking the record of youngest world champion with him then just as
01:19 WWE would be one to do every other time someone they didn't like held a record in their company AJ Lee and demolition say hello
01:25 They made sure to wipe them from the record books post haste young
01:29 24 year old Randy Orton would take the mantle of youngest world champion beating Chris Benoit at SummerSlam 2004
01:35 Only to turn around and have his evolution pals kick him out of the group with Triple H winning the title just four weeks later
01:40 It wasn't about Orton who was still a few years away from being the main event star
01:44 He would become it was about erasing history
01:46 So I guess well done number nine Alberto Del Rio's first reign
01:51 What is worse than a prick being pushed as a baby face?
01:54 Of course
01:55 We may not have known just how much of a prick of ursa del rio was at the time of his first reign as World Heavyweight
01:59 Champion, but that little-known fact didn't make this run any better
02:02 Alberto was pretty consistently a flop as a headliner in WWE sporting to dud WWE
02:08 Championship reigns in 2011 and then to dud World Heavyweight Championship reigns in 2013
02:13 He had a lot of things working against him having a feud with the big show that centered around the two having a pair of
02:18 Last man standing matches and then building to a regular wrestling match Ricardo Rodriguez having a bucket as his gimmick
02:25 Nothing says world champion quite like a bucket
02:28 He then had the most piss break of all WrestleMania piss break title matches with Jack Swagger at WrestleMania 29
02:34 And that was curtains for this cursed reign by 2013
02:37 This title was a shell of its former self
02:39 But this particularly unlikable baby face was hardly one to pull it from the mud
02:43 number eight
02:44 Ray Mysterio's first reign just in case some of our younger viewers thought that
02:48 WWE pulling the rug out from under their new champions was a recent development save for the likes of Kofi Kingston or Big E or Seth
02:55 Rollins here we present the entirely depressing 2006 World Heavyweight Championship reign of Ray Mysterio
03:01 Emphasis on the heavyweight and speaking of heavyweights
03:04 Immediately following Ray's monumental win in honor of Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania 22
03:08 Which keeps this reign from ranking any higher on this list by itself?
03:11 Ray was crushed beneath the sheer weight of Mark Henry and the great Kali losing to both of them clean on Smackdown
03:17 En route to beating JBL at Judgment Day his only clean win on pay-per-view as champion
03:23 Yeah, the big takeaway from Ray's time holding the big gold belt was that he really didn't feel like a champion
03:27 He lost a lot. I mean he beat Gregory Helms the man with the worst Titan Tron of all time
03:33 But if that is the highlight of your world title reign then that probably means it was a pretty lousy title reign number seven
03:39 Christians first reign I've been able to avoid talking about this in my first two years of list making but now here we are
03:45 We have reached the moment that broke me as a wrestling fan. Everyone remembers their first time being hurt by wrestling
03:51 This was mine being a little Toronto born edging Christian fan
03:55 Like I am seeing edge retire in 2011 legitimately brought a tear to my eye
03:59 Just as seeing Christian capture his first ever World Heavyweight Championship and embrace edge did
04:04 Christian on top was fresh a new star getting a run with the title a great worker in every aspect of the game
04:10 Complete with a feel-good moment to crown a new babyface champion
04:14 And then he got pinned clean to lose the title just days later by Randy Orton on Smackdown
04:17 Why now I would be a fool to not point out that this summer-long rivalry between Christian and Orton was
04:25 Fantastic and that maybe ends justifying the means for some but at the time there was nothing more
04:30 frustrating than hoping for some new stars to be made after WrestleMania only to once again find both world titles around the wastes of John Cena and
04:38 Randy Orton and I mean in terms of reigns who could possibly argue in favor of Christians first reign it was two days
04:45 Five if you want to keep in time with WWE canon
04:48 But the only canon I want to hear about is the one I want to shoot this title reign out of
04:52 Number six Dolph Ziggler second reign a few of these reigns can really be chalked up to missed potential in the case of Dolph Ziggler
04:59 He had the moment of all crowning moments when he cashed in money in the bank the day after WrestleMania 29 to win the World Heavyweight
05:05 Championship, but an excellent crowning moment does not make a good reign
05:09 This was a title reign that had felt like a very long time coming
05:12 Finally Ziggler's moment after having toiled away in the mid card for years
05:16 Slowly climbing up the card to the point that he could defeat John Cena in the main event of TLC 2012 before finally becoming champion
05:23 And then he got a concussion
05:24 One little bump on the noggin and all that momentum was out the window and Dolph dropped the title back to Alberto del Rio in his
05:30 first title defense
05:31 This was a pretty effective double turn with del Rio focusing his attacks on Ziggler's head and could have paid off with Ziggler regaining his
05:37 Title at SummerSlam this time as a true blue baby face
05:40 But no this was just the end of it all
05:42 Vince reportedly only gave Dolph his moment because that was the right thing to do on that night
05:46 But had no intention of actually pushing him which may seem like the logical next step towards creating a new top star
05:52 But excuse me when I say that as a tale as old as time
05:56 number five
05:57 Kane a lot of people were very happy to see Kane get a real run as WWE World Champion in 2010
06:03 It had been 12 years since he last won a world championship and even then he was only
06:08 WWE champion for one day not much of a reign but having lived through this
06:12 154 day blight on Smackdown ass reign
06:15 I don't know that I wouldn't prefer the one day reign Kane is a real nostalgic character for some but I will be damned if he
06:21 Wasn't routinely involved in the worst storyline of the year for WWE and there were a few candidates here with this reign his
06:27 2010 rivalry with the Undertaker once again proved that these two were incapable of having a good match together putting on three straight
06:34 Pay-per-view stinkers until Kane turned his attention to edge the baby face who tormented Kane the heel by torturing Paul bear
06:41 How did he torture the man on a PG show you ask?
06:44 Well, he threw dodgeballs at him covered him in pizza and then had Kane push him to his death
06:49 Well, I guess that last one really wasn't PG now
06:51 Was it all in all this reign was a drag upon the main event scene on Smackdown in 2010 and good for Kane for getting?
06:57 A Thank You World title reign but goddamn if we weren't sick of it by the end
07:01 Number four Triple H's second reign in last week's list
07:04 We spoke about how for the first three years of the big gold belts big gold life
07:08 Triple H had full custody over it weekends and holidays, too
07:11 Well reign three was actually quite good and significant and reigns one four and five were sort of middle of the pack and not long
07:17 Enough to become all that offensive this reign this reign right here is what made the internet hate Triple H with a fury
07:25 winning the title at Armageddon 2002 Triple H started his year of running through every
07:30 WCW star he could find and doing so in horrible fashion
07:34 He started with the worst in-ring rivalry of the year with Scott Steiner and then moved on to the horribly racist and impossibly tone-deaf
07:40 Booker T feud that saw Triple H disrespect Booker with the longest pause between pedigree and actual pinfall in history at Wrestlemania 19
07:48 Before turning his attention to Kevin Nash and a pair of terrible pay-per-view matches at Judgment Day in bad blood and then who should step up
07:54 to the plate but Bill Goldberg
07:57 Goldberg could have at least ensured that this godforsaken title reign ended when it was supposed to but nope
08:02 Triple H balls that one up to
08:04 beating Goldberg at SummerSlam when he had no business to and may I also remind you that this was the fat-faced shaven biker trunks
08:11 Triple H era - five stars just for that
08:14 Number three all the ones under 20 minutes
08:17 This would have been a difficult list to write if half of the entries were just me talking about how the entry in question
08:22 Was longer than the title reign I was actually talking about
08:24 I can only make that joke once and there are four of these f***ing reigns
08:28 WWE loves to do the old switcheroo and crown two new champions in one night with the same belt a new way to say
08:34 Haha, now you have the shortest title reign of all time
08:37 They did it with Jeff Hardy and Big Show with money in the bank and they also did it with poor Dolph Ziggler who just can't
08:42 Stay away from this list. Hell he has said himself that he doesn't even count this as a title reign and I can't imagine why
08:48 Perhaps when he fantasized about his big crowning moment
08:51 it didn't look like Vicky Guerrero stripping edge of the title for using his totally normal finisher and
08:55 Awarding the title to Ziggler only to lose it back to edge less than 10 minutes later
09:00 That one was without a doubt the most damaging and would hold a spot near the top of this list had it been on its own
09:05 Also, Randy Orton's final reign with the belt also only lasted a few minutes as the title was unified with the WWE
09:11 Championship at the end of TLC 2013, which wouldn't be on this list
09:14 But for the sake of this entry, I must cover my bases
09:17 Number two Jack Swagger some of the reigns on this list were just poor and then we moved on with our big gold lives
09:23 But others like the remaining ones here are the reigns that really brought this big gold belt down to its big gold depths
09:29 Jack Swagger was always a bizarre choice to be mr. Money in the bank in 2010
09:33 Usually you kind of see big things for the lads chosen edge Rob Van Dam. Mr. Kennedy. There was some thought put in
09:39 There was no thought put into World Heavyweight Champion Jack Swagger
09:43 Swagger had only won just one singles match on TV in 2010 before winning money in the bank and then just days later on Smackdown
09:50 He was the World Heavyweight Champion. Look at his pure excitement. Ooh
09:54 I haven't seen someone that excited since the last time I had to write a list about Roddy Piper's blackface
09:59 Jack Swagger simply isn't and wasn't a top guy. He was boring
10:04 He was a bad promo and he was somehow huge but also not intimidating
10:08 And it must be said that the most over period of his career came when he was cosplaying as a man from Fox News
10:13 And I'm just gonna leave that one alone
10:15 This reign was actively damaging to the World Heavyweight Championship that at this point was still on relatively equal footing with the WWE
10:23 Championship, but after this it just sort of wasn't and number one the great Kali
10:28 Me running if this does not get nearly enough hate for being maybe the worst WWE World title reign of all time
10:35 Move over diesel gender Mahal. This was the real
10:38 the great Kali made Kevin Nash looked like he had the agility of a cruiserweight and made gender look like he had the versatility of
10:44 AJ Styles
10:45 The only points that go in favor of those reigns being worse than this one were that they were too long
10:50 This one was but a mere 61 days during the summer of 2007
10:53 Maybe the worst time period to ever be a WWE fan and this reign was certainly not gonna lift anyone's spirits
10:59 Match after match of just lumbering around bopping people on the head boots in the corner
11:04 My heart goes out to Batista for being linked to this reign having to have horrible matches a great American bash and summer slam with that
11:11 Summer slam match remaining maybe the worst big gold title match ever before finally resting the title from Kali's massive hands and unforgiven
11:18 Only to then turn around and have to have a Punjabi prison match with the giant at no mercy that match doesn't play into this
11:24 Reign, of course
11:25 But it only further illustrated why the great Kali should have been kept seven plus feet away from the big gold belt at all times
11:31 And that's our list
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11:37 It and make sure you click on the video above to see the ten best World Heavyweight Championship reigns of all time
11:42 When it wasn't around the waist of Triple H
11:44 There was about a 50/50 chance that it would be taken seriously as a legit World Championship
11:48 Routinely being subject to opening pay-per-views during the final years of its life
11:53 However with the title sort of making its return to WWE this month
11:56 What better time is there to look back on what was the best that the big gold belt had to offer?