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| 10. Michael Hayes 5-07-89 to 5-22-89: Can you say transition champion? Hayes won the title in a swerve at WrestleWar 89 against Lex Luger. Terry Gordy came out and helped him win it. Hayes is an awful worker and should never be in a singles match let alone have the secondary title of a federation. |
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| 9. Orlando Jordan 3-01-05 to 8-21-05: 5 months with the belt and then he jobs it in like 30 seconds. Jordan is a pretty awful wrestler and I don't know how anyone justified giving the guy the belt. Main defenses were against Heidenreich to boot. |
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| 8. Big Show 10-19-03 to 3-14-04: 5 months with the belt and he defended it once. He also went over a massively over wrestler in Eddie Guerrero for the title. |
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| 7. Rick Steiner 2-05-01 to 3-18-01: Shane Douglas was no prize as the champion but at least he managed to not injure the opponents he was in the ring with. Rick Steiner spent most of his time in 2001 injuring opponents and generally sucking it up in the ring to no heat. For whatever reason management decided to reward the guy with the belt. Maybe it had to do with him hurting everyone on that level. |
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| 6. One Man Gang 12-27-95 to 1-29-96: OMG hadn't been useful inside of a ring for about 8 years at this point. Got the belt after another dud in Kensuke Sasaki was stripped of the title and then quickly dropped it to an even bigger dud in Konnan. Yes those 2 will be appearing on the list shortly. |
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| 5. Kensuke Sasaki 11-13-95 to 12-27-95: For those familiar with Sasaki will immediately recoil in horror of the thought of him as a singles wrestler in 1995. This came about due to the working relationship with New Japan and lead to a completely heatless run for Sasaki. He put on some craptacular matches to add to the pain. |
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| 4. Jim Duggan 9-18-94 to 12-27-94: In one of WCW's more infamous moments Duggan jumped on top of Steve Austin to win the belt in a matter of seconds. I like Duggan and him holding the U.S. Title wouldn't have been so bad had it been 1988. Just a pointless run with the belt as there were several more capable guys on the roster. |
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| 3. Konnan 1-29-96 to 7-07-96: This was a thank you run for helping to bring the luchadores in. I can understand that but did the guy really need a 6 month run with the belt? Konnan is purely a tag team division or a Television title level guy. It was an utterly heatless run with the belt and I can't think of any title defenses that were good. |
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| 2. Steve McMichael 8-21-97 to 9-15-97: McMichael wasn't a terrible wrestler. In fact I thought he was passable as a tag worker. He's just not a guy you give the secondary title to. |
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| 1. David Flair 7-05-99 to 8-09-99: One of the worst moments in WCW's history. Flair could barely do basic moves in the ring at this point but due to storyline reasons was given the belt after Scott Steiner vacated it due to injury. One of the most famous moments during this run was Flair forgetting to take a bump after an El Dandy dropkick. |