10 Wrestling Champions Who Barely Defended Their Title
These wrestling champions didn't put their belts on the line much
7. Blake & Murphy - NXT Tag Team Titles
The hardworking duo of Buddy Murphy and Wesley Blake became the sixth NXT Tag Team Champions when they beat the Lucha Dragons of Kalisto and Sin Cara in a short match on the January 28, 2015, episode of NXT.
A day after they won them – at a January 15 television taping – they set about defending them, despite the title-winning match not being due to air for another twelve days.
While Blake and Murphy held the titles for a not inconsiderable 205 days (as recognised by WWE), they only successfully defended their titles twice on television – first defeating Enzo and Cass at NXT Unstoppable on May 20 and then the Vaudevillians on the July 29 NXT.
Three months later at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, they finally fell to Aiden English and Simon Gotch.
Though their televised defences were scant, Blake and Murphy did defend their titles on non-televised live events, notching 17 defences all told, against the teams already mentioned as well as tandems like the Hype Bros and Jason Jordan & Solomon Burke.
Buddy and Wesley were perfectly serviceable as tag champs, but there’s no denying their work was quickly eclipsed by what followed courtesy of teams like American Alpha and The Revival.
