For superstars, winning the WWE championship may be the result of some serious and hard work. The moment when they raise their arms after a championship game, the title is awarded to them is probably one of the most satisfying moments of their career. However, over the past few years, many stars in the company have won world championships without actually competing in the championship, whether it is due to the creation of a new belt or the fact that the champion is forced to give up their titles. At this point, here are four WWE superstars who won the championship directly without a match.
4: After Becky Lynch announced his pregnancy, Tony Hua directly won the Raw Women's Championship. A recent example of a superstar winning the championship without a competition is Asuka after the 2020 Contract Ladder Contest. "Queen Tomorrow" won the match the night before and grabbed the women's briefcase, which allows her to hold any competition she wants at any time. However, defending RAW women’s champion Becky Lynch announced on the evening of the show that she was pregnant, and her title would be hung in the air. Instead of creating a game for the vacant champion, Tony Hua simply won the RAW Women’s Championship because she was the women’s briefcase at that time!
3: Teddy Dibiaz bought the WWF Championship Belt from the Giant Andre! On February 5, 1988, after bribing the referee at Teddy Dibias's main event that night, Hogan lost his WWF title to the giant Andre. Andre then sold his belt to the millionaire - Teddy! (but ultimately leads to the title being vacant). In three PPVs, Teddy was promoted as the WWF champion and faced Bam Bam Bigelow. Not long after, then WWF chairman Jack Tunney announced that Teddy was not a real WWF champion and that his dominance was invalid. Soon, his title was taken away, and a competition to crown the new champion was held at the 4th WrestleMania.
2: Rob Van Dam becomes the first and only WWE&ECW champion because Paul Heyman directly awarded Rob Van Dam ECW world champion! When WWE decided to relaunch the ECW brand, the third brand needed a title. They hope someone can lead the trend, become the brand's spokesperson and become the new champion, but instead of holding a championship game to crown the champion, they handed the title to Robert Van Dam-RVD! RVD won his own first WWE championship from John Cena in the ECW One Night Stand at the time and the first champion of the ECW revival. Fans were satisfied to see him holding both WWE and ECW world titles. What is disappointing, though, is that the brand didn’t give anyone on the roster a chance to compete for a belt at first, and Paul Heyman just handed it to RVD as a prop of some sort.
1: Eric Bishev won the new world heavyweight championship for Triple H! When Brock Lesnar united the WWE championship and became Smackdown's exclusive title, Raw lost a place in the world title. Therefore, Eric Bishev decided to bring back the famous "Big Gold Belt", which was used in the WCW and the NWA to represent their world champion. In this way, the world heavyweight champion belt was revived in WWE. However, Lao Bi did not ask Raw's top stars to face off in front of the prestigious new champion belt, but instead handed the championship directly to Triple h. At that time, the high IQ Assassin was one of the biggest superstars in WWE, and it was completely reasonable for him to lead the Raw brand.Even though that's it, it made the fans at that time feel uncomfortable when they saw the championship handed over to Sledgehammer, because everyone knows that Sledgehammer's "reign of terror" officially began, because Sledgehammer was the top villain at that time, and the Evolution Legion was still supporting him! Does anyone remember who the Sledgehammer lost this championship belt to in the end?
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