Not everyone is destined to win the WWE title or the World title.Now that they are unified, it’s even more difficult to think who else can go on to win it and make it count. There have been instances where superstars are given the title as an experiment to see if they are ready to take over. More often than not, superstars fail and then you have to move on to somebody else.On several occasions, you believed that some superstars just couldn’t win the World title or the WWE title. You thought that they would forever be stuck in the mid-card and never reach main event status, but some defied that very definition.Here are 5 WWE who you did not expect to win the WWE/World title
#5 Mark Henry
For someone who was known as ‘Sexual Chocolate’ and who had a hand with the late great Mae Young, Mark Henry had perpetually been given the tag of the ‘World’s Strongest Man’ but all this ever led to was losses and more losses. He was an intimidating figure, but he was never a main event player.
He was an attraction but it never really amounted to a run which involved him doing something great. Until 2011.
Henry gave away his longtime babyface run and turned heel. He frequently made other superstars be a part of the ‘Hall of Pain’. And this led to him winning his first World Title in 15 years by defeating Randy Orton.
It was 15 years in the making, but this has been arguably the best run Henry’s had in his wrestling career.
#4 Christian
After his best friend and former tag team partner Edge retired from wrestling, the spotlight was on Christian for a short while. This was unprecedented for a guy who many may remember for throwing a fit after all his losses during his intial singles run in the company. He was somebody who was firmly situated in the lower- mid card or the mid card.
The Intercontinental title was as close to a major singles championship he’d ever gotten to.
But come 2011, he was feuding with Alberto Del Rio for the World title and he won it in a ladder match with his best friend there to witness that glory. He lost that immediately to Randy Orton and thus began the greatest feud in Christian’s singles’ career.
Till date, many fans want to see Christian have ‘one more match’ for World Title Glory.
#3 Edge
If Christian’s on this list, Edge can’t be far away. Edge was also a tag team guy. He moved on to the Intercontinental title picture but was stuck in mid-card for most of his career until he teamed up with Lita. The feud with Matt Hardy based on real life events changed the course of Edge’s career and the WWE.
It made Edge the ultimate opportunist, the Rated R Superstar. This catapulted him to main event status and he soon cashed in on Cena’s title and won the WWE Championship in the most incredible cash-ins of all time.
From a perpetual mid card to upper mid card star Edge became a marquee star.
#2 Jeff Hardy
Jeff Hardy is clearly not WWE’s protocol guy. He’s tattoed and painted and doesn’t have the kind of build WWE advertises as its look.
When Edge was propelled to main event status, Hardy often faced him in matches to avenge the treatment his brother was subjected to. But by late 2007, Hardy’s main event push began.
And from being the original extreme superstar in the WWE, Hardy moved on to showcase his skills in the main event. He delivered a momentous Swanton bomb from the top of the titantron to Orton and signalled his arrival, one that we couldn’t have imagined a few years prior.
He won his first WWE Championship in 2008 thus beginning a main event career before leaving.
#1 Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit
For all those years of blood, sweat and tears, these two achieved the most incredible success in their career in the same year. 2004 was their year and that Wrestlemania forever will be remembered as their moment. Nobody can get that iconic Wrestlemania picture out of their head.
These two spent years, many, many years in the lower to mid-card to make everyone believe that they can never win the biggest titles in the WWE, but they went on to face mammoths like HBK, Triple H and Brock Lesnar. They faced them and won, unprecedently.
The moment was absolutely magical, almost surreal. It will forever be so. That’s a wrestling story for the ages for you.
