Worst world champion ever (wwf/wcw)

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Big Show/Giant

Vince McMahon

Kane

Sid Vicious

Sgt. Slaughter

Stan Stasiak

Iron Sheik

Vince Russo

David Arquette

Yokozuna?

 

This was supposed to be a poll...ooops

[Guest Tony149]

David Arquette hands down. Time Warner wanted WCW to use celebrities and the fans got Arquette.

[Guest FakeRazor]

I'll have to go with Arquette as well.  Makes you wonder just what the hell the bookers were smoking.

[Guest Tony149]

I'll admit that I'm a fan of Russo's writing, but even I thought "What the hell is he thinking!" I know he was going for shock value, but there's times when that doesn't pay off.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

If he wanted shocking he should have put the belt on Misterio.  That would have been shocking...but you couldn't really complain about it, talent wise.

[Guest J*ingus]

Arquette and Russo were the WORST champions of all time.  At least McMahon had muscles and a few decent matches in his time.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

David Arquette.  He got to beat Tank Abbott and Main Event a PPV.

[Guest Tony149]

He beat Tank? I don't even remember that.

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

arquette, there is no question.

[Guest Gimli 1138]

What? No Kevin Nash? Where's the man that nearly drove the WWF to extinction, thanks to his crappy reign as Diesel. Not to mention some of his stinker WCW reigns.

 

As for the worst, it's David Arquette and Vince Russo. When you have two no talented hacks actually WRESTLE and WIN the MAIN TITLE, that's just saying something about your company. When Russo and Arquette are dead and buried, here's one wrestling fan who's willing to piss on their graves.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

It was his first title defense on Nitro.  Tank was undefeated at that point, and being built up for a big feud with Goldberg.

[Guest Tony149]

I've pretty much forgotten anything during Arquette's title run. Which probably is a good thing.

[Guest Mike]

Wrestler-wise, I gotta go with the Giant/Big Show.

[Guest Army Eye]

Shocking would've been Arquette winning the hardcore title or something.  Arquette winning the WORLD TITLE was just incomprehensibly stupid.

[Guest bob_barron]

David Arquette and Russo

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

David Arquette. At least McMahon and Russo never successfully defended their titles.

 

Back in Wrestlecrap's day, Cole and Lawler yapping while Arquette primps with a "FORMER WCW CHAMPION" sign would of been an easy definition.

[Guest Tony149]

I guess I wasn't seeing things. Arquette did have a sign saying "FORMER WCW CHAMPION".

[Guest Dark Lotus]

WCW - no question... Arquette.

 

WWF - Slaughter.  Maybe he should've been champion at some point, but having him as champ during the Gulf War as an Iraqi sympathizer was the worst idea ever.

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

Ha! It still cracks me up that they gave up on the guaranteed goldmine that was Hogan/Warrior 2 for Slaughter.

[Guest Tony149]

Did Vince plan on doing Hogan/Warrior 2 at WM VII? If he did, then did he change his mind just to go with Sgt. Slaughter?

[Guest Army Eye]

Don't know.. I hadn't heard that.   I got the impression that he just wanted to get Warrior out of the main event picture, as he simply wasn't drawing.

[Guest dreamer420]

WCW: David Arquette (quite possibly WCW's darkest hour as their world title was won by one of the worst actors in hollywood)

 

WWF: Yokozuna (with all the talent that the WWF had during his reigns it staggers the mind.  at least Vince's reign was short and was only there to further a decent storyline.  yoko just sucked in the ring)

 

Am I the only one who thinks Vince would have done a program with Mabel and Yokozuna if he had the chance back then?  I wonder who talked him out of that one?

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

I'd have to go with all the non-wrestlers(Russo/McMahon/Arquette). Storyline or not, non-wrestlers should NEVER hold the World Title. I don't care if Vince had already had some matches before then, all it did was devalue the title even more before Big Show got it and then HHH finally put an end to all the bullshit.

[Guest Machismo69]

a?

[Guest Tony149]

I really never had a problem with Vince getting the WWF Title. It fit the storyline, but some have disagreed about that. McMahon got his ass kicked by Triple H. Then Austing came out have Triple H a Stunner, put Vince on top of HHH and Vince won. I think most would agree that it was a better title run than Aquette's & Russo's, since Vince is big.

[Guest Haku]

Arquette and McMahon having any non wrestler as champ is horrrible

[Guest Marius714]

MY opinion:

 

 

WCW: Arquette. WTFO?

 

WWF: Kane, he is so boring.

 

And for the record I like Stan Stasiak and the Iron Shiek they could have had success as transitional champs with longer runs. Just use them in a similiar manner to the WWF is Jericho and I can see some success.

 

 

 

LET THE FLAMING BEGIN!!!

[Guest Silvpak]

I'm going to ignore the non-wrestlers.  Besides, Russo and Arquette were merely incidental to WCW's death rattle.

 

How about "Rugged" Ronnie Garvin?  Even the wrestlers looked at him as a joke.

[Guest teke184]

Garvin knew that he was only a placeholder champion so that Flair could win back his title at Starrcade 87, so I'd say that he shouldn't be counted.

 

However, I'd probably go with Tommy Rich as the worst wrestler to win the NWA title just because of the very strange backstage circumstances surrounding that win.

 

If we include the AWA, I'd probably go with Otto Wanz because he paid Verne Gagne about $35,000 or so to have a 6-month run with the belt, although Larry Zbysco is just as bad (Decent to good wrestler, but he was the champion at the end of the promotion because he was Verne's son-in-law).

[Guest Tony149]

What were the strange circumstances that got Tommy Rich the NWA Title? Is that the infamous "blow job for Title" story?