 What's good George Bo Ross back again with another video, so we're gonna check out 10 WWE wrestlers promised titles They never got them. Hey, man. It's an unfortunate situation where Sometimes a wrestler may be gaining some momentum With the fans and it looks like their next Opportunity is gonna be some type of title shot or some type of title opportunity and it doesn't pan out Maybe some unforeseen things happen behind the scenes or whatnot or backstage and it doesn't plan out Or maybe that person unfortunately get injured. These are things that happen, you know a lot back then wrestling Was really just right time right moment type of situation And sometimes you can miss your moment because of an injury and it kind of changes the landscape of your career So we're gonna check this out Appreciate all of us what you guys have shown on the channel to get right into this one It was unthinkable that the likes of mr. Perfect Jake Roberts Ted DBRC and so on never got the chance to reign with the WWE title Space at the top of the card her not everyone can have their go But what about WWE stars that were not just considered for the belts But were fingertips away from actually grabbing it the history books would have been totally different if original plans had been seen fruition I'm sorry for what culture.com and these are 10 wwe wrestlers promised titles that never got them number 10 Wade Barrett Championship in 2010 the Nexus debuted on main roster WWE TV and instantly became the leading story in the company due to their propensity for abject destruction At the head of the table sat the charismatic Wade Barrett who proved time and time again on the microphone That he was a born top heel when the group was resoundingly beaten at Survivor Series by team WWE led by John Cena who pushed backstage to come out on top Barrett went on to two losses to then WWE champion Randy Orton if the Nexus had succeeded in their first major outing would Barrett have been pushed to champion status You could have you could have definitely worked with that That was that was probably in hindsight one of the worst decisions John Cena could have possibly made Nexus needed that win You're trying to promote the future, you know You know it definitely could have benefited from them winning that important It wasn't the only time that Barrett was put on track to major success in 2011 It seemed that Wade was primed for a solid solo push He had left the failing core stable drop the intercontinental title and was part of the money in the bank ladder match in an interview with What culture in 2016 Barrett revealed that not only had he been picked to win the briefcase, but they'd even rehearsed it This was a change to an hour before the show considering that at this time nobody had failed a cash in this very well Could have been Barrett's redemption, but ultimately became yet another chance slipping through his fingers number nine Alistair Black United States Championship whilst he had a palpable impact on NXT Alistair Black's time on WWE's main roster never felt as though it got properly started before he was released Though it wasn't as if the WWE writing room was ignoring him They made plans but most never amounted to much speaking on a live stream in 2020 Black revealed that there was a moment where he was supposed to win the US title But then Vince's consensus was I don't want to have him win his first title in front of no audience It's hard to know if this move was made out of genuine concern for Black's career Or perhaps as an excuse to keep him away from establishing himself after I mean I get it I get that but I mean titles I mean that would have been his first major title, but I think it could have worked I mean you had nothing else to lose people were dropping and gaining titles throughout that period anyway, so it's like What those of you had to lose he could use that momentum so I feel like it's like a it isn't an excuse, but it's a weak excuse After all whilst Paul Heyman was famously in favor of Black's skills His heavily tattooed and death metal persona don't scream the hallmarks of a Vince McMahon project Furthermore this reasoning falls apart when you realize many first-time main roster champions such as Drew McIntyre and Rhea Ripley Were crowned in front of the screens of WWE's thunderdome In fact, Zelina Vega Black's wife said in an appearance with the chasing glory podcast That he was due to win the title from her onscreen client andrade for the man who did so Apollo cruise It was his first title win and it was with no crowd in attendance So what gives number eight Muhammad Hassan world heavyweight championship Despite being on wwe television for less than a calendar year Muhammad Hassan's Controversial character saw him rise to notoriety He was featured in segments alongside some of the biggest names in the business such as Hogan's Stone Cold and The Undertaker Which isn't a privilege that every rookie gets it was going to get even bigger However with SummerSlam looming that August Vince wanted a heel for babyface world heavyweight champion Batista to drop the belt to And at the time there was no one attracting more heat than Hassan Considering the event was to be held in washington dc not only the nation's capital But also Batista's home city it seemed like the perfect hot plate for a huge crowd reaction However, Hassan's western critical character jumped the shark when after losing a number one contender ship match to The Undertaker He seemed to pray for the arrival of mast near duels Unfortunately this segment infamously aired on the evening of a real terrorist attack in london Which drew mass controversy to the company along and short of which saw Hassan's character written off tv and led to his eventual release Which is so crazy because obviously Vince approved that whole little segment And you know, it's just a timing of it. It just kind of you know It it didn't time up, right? So you're doing this segment while actual tears the attack event happened, you know, it's like Course advertisers like nope. Nope. We don't want this. We don't want this at all So it pretty much killed this character And then he was kicked out of the company. We'll let go the fact It didn't happen It's plain to see that Hassan as champion was the direction the company had been heading Number seven lacy evans raw women's championship On paper lacy evans should be a can't miss baby face a tall blonde haired blue-eyed all-american with a rough Background that she overcame to become a mother and a soldier for her country And yet these elements make crowds much more prone to boo her in that we get it your oh so great kind of way To top it off a smug and vindictive evans is just more entertaining to watch than seeing her attempt to be the overcoming All-Odd's baby face Evans found a twisted kind of momentum in january 2021 when she began to flirt and eventually enter an on-screen relationship with rick flair angering his daughter and wrestlemania mainstay charlotte This was all part of setting up a program that would take them both to the show of shows If the personal vendetta wasn't enough wwe had the two battle for contendership to ask us raw women's championship Lacy came out on top and the match was booked for elimination chamber But just as quickly as it came it was pulled from the card when the following week evans revealed that she was legitimately pregnant Have this not been the case evans would have captured her first title in wwe and defended it against charlotte's at wrestlemania 37 As the top heel number six ryback wwe championship When you consider how fast the feed me more chance got over and the size of ryback's big meaty neck muscles So it's not surprising that vince was high on him back quickly shot into the main event in his first year It always seemed possible that mr. McMahon was going to pull the trigger on ryback one day Apparently it was at least dangled in front of the big guy around his last couple of years within the company Talking to the angle podcast ryback detailed that he lost his intercontinental championship because he didn't sign a contract extension That the wwe put in front of him to get his john hancock on the dotted line vince of ryback verbally made some agreements These included a heel turn switching out the single it for trunks and a wwe championship run Which ryback then explained got demoted down to the u.s. Title and putting over calisto You should always take what the big guy says with a pinch of salt vince allegedly also promised that he'd let him squash aj styles at Wrestlemania, but considering vince's alo u1 reputation. This at least seems plausible number five bronson and the thing about ryback i don't want to just you know go in and uh Down the guy he's made some very questionable tweets and and had some very questionable comments But I do feel like he's always had some legitimate reason to have some type of gripe with wwe Granted he does go a little bit overboard in my opinion sometimes But I understand i'm sure they probably promised him a lot of things and then they didn't uh They didn't uphold their end of the deal so I can see that happening and that could be frustrating So I I get somewhat of how he feels but at the same time It's been so long It's like you at some point you gotta move forward and let that go You know I'm saying or you're just gonna continuously Be in that perpetual loop of you know just wishing for someone's downfall and being able to kind of laugh at it And it doesn't really make you look any better because it's like well If that's the case you shouldn't have been with wwe from the jump, you know I'm saying but hey It's it's it's one of those type of things. Hopefully Hopefully he can just you know move forward and let let the Pass be a pass and read nxt championship Despite feeling like its own little pocket universe, which is often meticulously designed especially during its better blacker and golder years nxt is still a wrestling promotion That means all kind of different story ideas and considerations are taken into account and just like main roster wwe Some of these possibilities apparently get passed on to the stars that concern them appearing on sammy callaghan's podcast former nxt star bronson read said that he was still intent on becoming a Top guy in the world of pro wrestling and that'd been triple h's intentions for him in the words of the now Jonah rock I was destined to become the top guy in the black and gold brand That's what was supposed to happen. It was what I was promised But as we all know promises don't get kept a lot in professional wrestling read doesn't mention a world championship run Explicitly, but what else could he mean? There's no spot gregsa in nxt than holding on to the title Which despite its standing as a developmental brand has a seriously impressive lineage Every man who has ever held it has made something of himself in wwe and or elsewhere And it would have done wonders for read instead He was unceremoniously released in august 2021 before his destiny could be fulfilled Number four. Mr. Kennedy. Oh, yeah, he won championship when mr. Kennedy mr. Kennedy he he was supposed to be the next guy up He had he had the promo ability the in ring work wasn't that bad He had the gimmick. He was supposed to be the next guy up, but You know things happen Backstage politics are real and he arrived in wwe It was immediately clear that the company was getting behind him for good reason He had a strong look. He was solid in the ring and he had unteachable charisma Yeah, such it wasn't really surprising that mr. Kennedy got his hands on the money in the bank briefcase When he did considering the previous winners edge and rob van damme had both successfully traded the case for a championship It was obvious that wwe had designs to do the same for kennedy with the mr. McMahon's exploding limo story occurring that summer and kennedy vowing to cash in at WrestleMania the company's vision for the following year was shane mcmanus onscreen ceo and a newly crowned mr. Kennedy as champion however kennedy's time in wwe can be defined as pure distilled bad luck Seriously, you could have bottled essence of mr. Kennedy and sold it as a curse for your worst enemies A suspected injury which turned out to be a hematoma forced kennedy to defend and lose the briefcase to edge Who would go on to successfully cash in and with the very real benoit tragedy putting a stop to mr. McMahon's fake death the plans fell to pieces continued suspensions saw kennedy slip down the card before his release Leaving him to find world title success in tna instead number three china wf championship China despite being wwf women's champion only once remains one of the most important women in wwe history She turned the tide on what women's characters could be and the involvement of female stars in men's spaces as she routinely Got physical with her male colleagues most memorably of course. She was the first woman to enter She was the embodiment of equal rights equal fights for the show the royal rumble and king of the ring tournament And it's still the only woman to hold the intercontinental championship She was also the first woman to become number one contender for the wwf championship But lost the opportunity and never made it to the match itself However, that wasn't china's only brush with the company's biggest prize China's former manager antony anseldo confirmed in 2020 claims that the star had made herself that vince once offered her the belt In exchange for one favor in anseldo's words. They offered her the wwe championship belt But vince said you can't do playboy. She chose playboy over the belt This decision made her a star in her own. Wow. I forgot she did playboy. That's crazy I still don't see vince giving her the fucking wwe. Well, you know what? Maybe maybe like a one night. Maybe you're like a one week situation. She holds the championship I could see that I take that bet. I could see that but uh Yeah, I That's crazy. She did uh did do playboy, you know And right for a short time But may have burned bridges with the wwe for good china's foray into adult entertainment following her playboy appearances Are often suspected as one reason why she still hasn't had her own independent hall of fame induction. Yeah number two William regal wwe championship in 2008 regal shocked the world by winning the king of the ring tournament Slumping into his throne at the end of the night with a malicious look on his face Combining the coronation as king with his general manager role regal would describe himself as the most powerful entity in the wwe proving his hunger for control and respect in a particularly memorable episode of raw Regal screamed to kevin dunne to take the show off the bloody air due to feeling slighted by wwe fans It was shocking and fresh and best of all It's widely believed that regals previous in ring dalliances with randy orton and triple h were going to put him in contention for the wwe title until regal was cavemaid fired due to a wellness policy violation Whilst never outright written in stone or regal needed to do was keep up the momentum of his character It was hated by wwe fans in the best way and putting the title around his waist for the first time ever Would have been the right move regal himself has admitted that he was studying dictators So we can only wonder how creatively wicked he could have gotten reigning the show All right. I'm not gonna lie to you. He was getting some good heel heat Well, he he is something about his pretentious. I'm better than you You should worser me attitude that people just love to hate Now if he's overseas in the u.k. Oh fans are gonna love him, but In the states. Oh, no, they would have Boo, they were booing him. So him as the top champ would have been a would have been a pretty good look for him Osking and champion however with a very real 60 day suspension for the brit the storyline finished into thin air And so did the chances of regal ever being wwe champion Number one Brutus the barba beefcake Wwf intercontinental championship when it comes to wwf's most memorable characters from the 1980s Brutus the barba beefcake is amongst his garden sheer prop hair obsessed gimmick and bright presentation He's one of the superstars that casual lapsed fans from the era are quickest to name And yet the only title he ever won was the wwf tag team championship That wasn't always the plan however But life got in the way of Brutus's ascension to mid card gold at the turn of the decade Brother Brutai was engaged in a hot view with mr Perfect and got the honor of being the first man in the company to pin Kurt Henig during their WrestleMania 6 bout From here the plan was to take their story to the next level They spent months on the house show circuits honing their perfect match with the intended conclusion that beefcake would beat perfect at summer slam 1991 for the intercontinental championship However, beefcake's famous accident involving a parasailing friend put this ascension to champion to rest As the star had to have life altering surgery and took two years away from business According to Brutus the company had toyed with the idea of giving him the strap multiple times over the 1980s And this would have been a sure thing if not for this almost career-ending injury And that's the list. Let us know what you thought of this video. That's that's tough That is that's actually kind of tough This is why I was saying at the beginning of the video sometimes there's those situations where Unfortunate situations where you may have you may suffer injury and now your push is derailed and you probably may not get it back You know two years is a long time and people can forget you. I don't know what's going on I don't know if you guys are seeing the glitching right now for obs is tripping So I don't know what's going on here, but I'm gonna go ahead and try to end this video for it It's just completely implodes, man. So comment down below. Let me know any individual y'all feel like deserved A major title title shot opportunity, but you felt like they push got derailed, man Let me know down below. I appreciate all the love and support row 250k appreciate y'all Can't even me see our next one piece. I don't know what's going on with obs Why it's glitching like that. So sorry y'all