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#5 Dean Douglas

Dean Douglas gets a grade of TJ for Total Joke.

The final name to talk about on this list is Dean Douglas, better known as Shane Douglas to most wrestling fans.

For years, Douglas would bounce around between WCW and WWF, although most of his success came from ECW.

One of his attempts to make it big under Vince McMahon's control was with the Dean Douglas character where he was essentially a college dean combined with a teacher mixed with a sports coach.

His vignettes and promos would be dubbed The Report Card wherein he'd review matches and critique the wrestlers in them (normally the babyfaces more than anybody else) and eventually give them a failing grade of some sorts, such as IU for "innately unprepared" or MF for "miserable failure."

In one of the weirdest title changes in WWE history, Shawn Michaels would be forced to relinquish the Intercontinental Championship before his match against Douglas at In Your House: Great White North on October 22, 1995.

Douglas would be awarded the title by forfeit but would be forced to immediately defend it against Razor Ramon, who would promptly defeat him, taking the title away from him mere minutes later.

At roughly a dozen minutes long, this is still to this day the shortest Intercontinental Championship title reign in history and it was still the zenith of the Dean Douglas character, which is very sad in retrospect and not something to be proud of, even though he is nonetheless in the record books as a former Intercontinental champion, which is something nobody else on this list can claim.

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