10 of the best wrestlers who never won a World Championship

#7 Jake the Snake Roberts

Jake the Snake and Damian

Jake the Snake is one of the grimmest, cerebral men to ever lace up a pair of tights. Jake would go years without speaking to his father, and chose the name Jake Roberts to avoid any comparison with his hated father.

Roberts proved to be a great draw, feuding with the von Erichs among others in his early careers. His above average size and great sense of timing put him head and shoulders above many of his peers of the era.

Jake eventually went to the WWE in the early 1980s. Vince McMahon had an idea for a character who would carry a snake to the ring and put it on his defeated opponents. Jake Roberts actually had a phobia of snakes, but when offered a lucrative deal to play the snake character, he couldn't refuse and swallowed his fears.

The Snake would feud with Ricky Steamboat, Rick Rude, and Andre the Giant through his career with the WWE, but would never hold a world title in that time. Still, he will be remembered for his icy cold promos, slick in-ring work, and the finisher he invented, the DDT, which stands for Damn Dirty Trick.