3 Champions who shouldn’t have been crowned in 2018

2018 was filled with quite a few Championship matches in which we saw many titles being won not only by multiple-time champions, but also by first-time champions.

Overall we saw almost all the championships in the WWE change hands at least once, with the Universal Championship changing hands twice.

While many deserving faces such as Becky Lynch, The Bar, Asuka, Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins, and Kairi Sane won well deserved championships, there were a few winners who either shouldn’t have been crowned champions, or did not deserve to win the way they did.

After looking at all the title reigns this year, we have come up with three champions who did nothing to deserve their title reigns because of the manner in which they got it.

Check out the list below and comment which title reign of 2018 was your favourite, and which one you disliked the most.

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#3 The B-Team

Two good wrestlers stuck in a questionable gimmick

In case you didn’t know, The B-Team currently compete on the Raw brand and consist of WWE superstars Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas. The two were a part of The Miztourage until The Miz was drafted to SmackDown Live on the request of Former SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan.

Competing in a tag team, the two led a long and humorous run as losers until the tides were turned in their favor and they beat The Deleters of Worlds to win the Raw Tag Team Championship.

The duo achieved this feat at Extreme Rules and soon transitioned into babyfaces.

The tag team championships of the flagship brand are definitely two of the most prestigious titles in the WWE which were previously held by great teams such as The New Day, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins, The Usos, and The Hardy Boyz among others.

Handing the titles to one of the goofiest acts on television at a time when teams like The Revival were gaining popularity on Raw was a confusing decision which should have been scrapped to protect the value of the championships.

#2 Braun Strowman and Nicholas

If they won the titles, then they should have gotten a run

Braun Strowman began a story line earlier this year where he pursued Cesaro and Sheamus's Raw Tag Team Championship. He won a tag team battle royal to determine the number one contender for the titles single-handedly, creating a headache for Raw General Manager Kurt Angle.

Not only was this an insult to the entire Raw tag team roster which is loaded with some great talent, but also resulted in a story line in which Strowman was forced to find a partner to enable him to compete for the championships.

Many fans speculated that his partner would be either Elias, Finn Balor, or even a former Hall of Famer, but that wasn’t the case. At WrestleMania 34, he chose a young fan in attendance named Nicholas to be his partner.

Nicholas, the 10-year-old son of referee John Cone, and Braun Strowman defeated The Bar to win the Raw Tag Team titles.

Not only was this a slap to the faces of two of WWE’s best wrestlers Sheamus and Cesaro and the other tag teams of Raw, but was also an insult to Braun Strowman who won his first ever championship in wrestling only to relinquish it the next night.

#1 Shinsuke Nakamura

Nakamura should have won his first championship convincingly

Shinsuke Nakamura is arguably one of the soundest technical wrestlers in the business today. He won the Royal Rumble in early 2018 and went on to challenge WWE Champion AJ Styles for his title at WrestleMania 34. After losing to Styles, Nakamura turned heel after the match.

In the following weeks, Nakamura got a number of chances at the title once again but all resulted in either disqualification or losses for the Japanese-born superstar.

On July 3, it was announced that Nakamura would face Jeff Hardy for the United States Championship at Extreme Rules. At the event on July 15, Nakamura executed a low blow and Kinshasa on Hardy to win the championship, marking his first main roster title win.

The win which should have been special for a superstar like Nakamura, was spoiled by dirty tactics which decreased his value.

Not only that, but the WWE put him in far lesser matches and title defenses which made him the Brock Lesnar of SmackDown Live. He lost a few non-title matches during his reign which made him come across as more of an undeserving champion who only made it through by cheating.

Nakamura is a class act and deserves all the television time and big matches possible. His United States Championship run wasn’t great, and he was made to rely more on his heelish tactics to win matches rather than his actual skills which were more than enough to get him through.