Most Surprising Title Changes
By Scott Keith on 20 December 2023
In light of today's ECW review, where does WWE wrestler Tazz beating WCW wrestler Mike Awesome for the ECW title rank on your list of most surprising title changes? I'm talking about all the times you had to do a double take when watching a wrestling show or reading spoilers on the internet. For me, it's still Bret winning the WWF title from Flair, but curious what others you'd consider.
Bret was a gigantic one. I was pretty surprised at the Ultimate Warrior IC title win just because I didn't think anyone would ever beat Honky. Had I been reading the WON at the time it would have been spoiled a million times over, though, because Meltzer was reporting the change on a weekly basis leading up to it. I was also very surprised by Jerry Lawler winning the AWA title from Curt Hennig because that was such a left field choice given that Lawler wasn't really a regular at that point.