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Was utterly convinced Gangrel won the European Title at some point. Maybe the real Championships were the Cheese and Onion crisps we ate along the way.

Two that immediately come to mind are Bam Bam Bigelow and Lex Luger never getting a sniff of a bet in WWF. “Kliq’d,” out of it.

I hope Lex still has this hanging in his office though.

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I always think of people like Hercules. 85-92 run in the Fed, nearly the whole period we contain it too. Not a single title shot, though he did have an amazing consistency with getting on PPV. Completely uninterrupted until This Tuesday in Texas where if it was a 3 hour card, I'm sure he'd have been on, looking bizarrely aged in a year and losing to Kerry Von Erich, Greg the Hammer Valentine or someone.

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1 hour ago, Chili said:

Completely uninterrupted

I initially read this as 'completely uninteresting' which would also have been appropriate for old Herc.

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I'll slightly derail this one (sorry) just cos it got me thinking. Wrestlers who you thought wore the gold - but actually didn't. For me it was the Powers of Pain. For some reason I always think they wore the tag titles.

Back on track though - notch me up for another vote for Herc, Hacksaw and the other one for me is Big John Studd who had a couple of non-gold runs in the WWF. 

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21 hours ago, BomberPat said:

Jimmy Snuka and Tatanka were two who were around on and off forever, both had big pushes and were featured stars, had multiple stints with the company, and not a belt between them.

Snuka may have been derailed due to the nancy argentino situation, I wonder had that never happened what his career would have potentially looked like.

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8 hours ago, Chili said:

I always think of people like Hercules. 85-92 run in the Fed, nearly the whole period we contain it too. Not a single title shot.

Pretty sure he got a shot at Hogan on Saturday Night's Main Event. Around 86/87.

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Has to be Tatanka for me. Absolutely pushed to the moon for the first part of his run with the unbeaten streak.

Challenged Michaels for the IC title at mania. Beat him by count out and then he never challenged for it again. Felt like they were protecting him for something bigger

Got Ludvig Borga’d

Heel turn fucked him.

Even on his return in the early 2000s it felt that he was going to get the tag belts with Matt Hardy and it went nowhere again. 
 

Then another heel turn. Then he was gone.

 

 

 

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25 minutes ago, The King Of Swing said:

Pretty sure he got a shot at Hogan on Saturday Night's Main Event. Around 86/87.

Yeah correct, I meant to type title reign and got completely lost there, he had plenty of Tag shots too.

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Bam Bam Bigelow didn't win a belt in either of his two stints with the WWF, despite being programmed pretty highly (working alongside Hogan in his first run and main-eventing WrestleMania XI against Lawrence Taylor).

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On 1/17/2026 at 2:11 PM, The Reverend said:

I'll slightly derail this one (sorry) just cos it got me thinking. Wrestlers who you thought wore the gold - but actually didn't. For me it was the Powers of Pain. For some reason I always think they wore the tag titles.

Barbar on his own is a great shout. Not only did the PoP not hold the WWF Tag Titles but, astonishingly, the Faces of Fear didn't hold the WCW Tag Belts - which every fucker did!

He had some minor titles in Mid-Atlantic, which I wouldn't count at all, never got a big time run with any WWF Champ but did astonishingly again, headline a WCW PPV against Big Ron Simmons. 

On 1/17/2026 at 12:41 AM, Supremo said:

Was utterly convinced Gangrel won the European Title at some point. Maybe the real Championships were the Cheese and Onion crisps we ate along the way.

Two that immediately come to mind are Bam Bam Bigelow and Lex Luger never getting a sniff of a bet in WWF. “Kliq’d,” out of it.

I hope Lex still has this hanging in his office though.

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The man had one of the best title wins in wrestling history. None of the pops WWE pipe in compare to that crowd in Auburn Hills that night. The follow-up was pure Hogan and pure WCW madness but, holy fuck, what a moment.

On 1/17/2026 at 8:16 PM, WrestlingForFun said:

Has to be Tatanka for me.

How dare you disrespect a former All Star Wrestling champion. Man was the lord of town halls everywhere. You'll never sing that.

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As a bit of an aside to this, was there ever a less successful faction than the Million Dollar Corporation? They were around for two years, and for that entire time not one of them won a title. And they included Tatanka, Bam Bam, and King Kong Bundy, all candidates for this thread.

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21 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

As a bit of an aside to this, was there ever a less successful faction than the Million Dollar Corporation? They were around for two years, and for that entire time not one of them won a title. And they included Tatanka, Bam Bam, and King Kong Bundy, all candidates for this thread.

Just checked their wiki page and their only listed “accomplishment” was the ring master having the Million Dollar belt 

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Yeah, the Million Dollar Corporation are amongst the worst stables in history. Given that Sid challenged Diesel for the belt twice, they were in a never ending feud with The Undertaker and Tatanka and Luger was a major story going into SummerSlam, they were effectively a main event heel stable who rarely won on PPV, didn't win any titles, had dreadful matches and dragged down some of the most over acts in the company. 

That Tatanka & Bam Bam weren't tag champs is something that I find hard to believe. Like Reverend said earlier, it's just one of those things you belive to be true unless you check.

Also, with all that said, Tatanka & Luger is one of my guilty pleasure feuds. It's so simple and brilliant. The sort of thing the WWF do really well and then hammer it home with a killer video package. Luger should have turned though. Luger as a heel WWF Title challenger has so much more potential and Luger & Sid as Tag Champs would look awesome too.

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On 1/17/2026 at 12:41 AM, Supremo said:

Was utterly convinced Gangrel won the European Title at some point.

 

Same here, and now the only thing I can think of was that he was maybe involved in the European Title story on No Mercy 64?

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