5 Great WWE Stars Who Never Won The WWE Championship

#1 "Rowdy" Roddy Piper

Roddy Piper: Only wore Intercontinental gold in WWE

"The Hot Rod" Roddy Piper was a massive star. One of the very biggest in WWE history. He is unquestionably the most famous star to never win a World title anywhere.

Piper, much like DiBiase was a victim of Hulk Hogan's success. Piper was Hogan's most famous opponent in the mid-1980s and challenged him for the WWE Championship at the company's first ever pay per view event, The Wrestling Classic in November 1985.

Piper was disqualified in said bout and could never wrest the title away from Hogan.

However, interestingly, Hogan would never beat him clean either. Piper refused to ever be pinned by Hogan and he never was. This preserved Piper's immense star power and made him one of the most famous wrestlers in the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

The only title Piper ever won in WWE was the Intercontinental Championship which he earned at the 1992 Royal Rumble when he defeated The Mountie, only to drop it two months later at Wrestlemania VIII in a classic match-up with Bret Hart.

Piper came close to winning the WCW World Championship at Starrcade 1996 when he defeated WCW Champion, Hogan at Starrcade 1996. However, in a fact that was withheld from the paying audience, the WCW Championship was not on the line and Hogan remained Champion.

Piper as World Champion was a missed opportunity for the entire wrestling world.