10 WWE Championship Reigns That Definitely Should Have Been Longer
Every kid grows up dreaming of being WWE Champion for an hour...
6. Big Show (2002)
2002 was a weird year for Big Show, as he was hardly featured and had the ignominy of being the WWE star posted at the WWE New York restaurant for WrestleMania 18, rather than being booked on the card itself.
His highlights for the first ten months of the year included being involved in the rubbish nWo revamp and having a midcard feud with Booker T (which he lost).
His fortunes changed when he was drafted to SmackDown in October, making an instant impact by attacking and kayfabe injuring The Undertaker, and then becoming number one contender to Brock Lesnar's WWE Title.
The Next Big Thing hadn't had the belt for too long at that point and was in the midst of an impressive undefeated streak, so the odds of the World's Largest Athlete unseating him were not great.
However, Brock was working with several niggling injuries at the time (including a painful rib injury suffered in a match with Show), and WWE opted to take the title off him at Survivor Series, turning Lesnar babyface and Paul Heyman heel in the process.
A rejuvenated Big Show running roughshod over the blue brand's roster with Heyman by his side could have been some great stuff, but it was not to be.
28 days after winning the gold, Show lost it to Kurt Angle at Armageddon.
Nothing was going to stop Angle/Lesnar happening at WrestleMania, and Show was always going to be a way to get the title to Kurt so that Brock could chase, but it was a shame for Paul Wight.
Especially since, three years earlier, he'd had another shortish transitional reign (50 days) that didn't exactly set the world on fire.
Written by Lewis Howse
Features journalist for Cultaholic.com and script writer for the Cultaholic YouTube Channel.