Holding the top title in WWE doesn’t necessarily mean you are the best wrestler in the company -- after all, Hulk Hogan held the WWF Championship for like five years -- but it does mean that you are, in some way, the most important, whether that be that you’re the most important good guy or the most important bad guy.

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But not all title runs are created equal. Sometimes title runs are cut short for whatever reason, or a triumphant victory is marred by bad storylines and lackluster title defenses. With that in mind, why don’t take a look at WWE’s worst top champs since the year 2010?

10 The Miz

At this point, The Miz is synonymous with the Intercontinental Championship, but in late 2010 he had a run with the WWE Championship that lasted until mid-2011. It wasn’t great by any stretch, considering he had to constantly rely on interference. Having Alex Riley in your back pocket is fine, but when The Miz needs Michael Cole’s help to beat Jerry Lawler, that’s… kind of embarrassing. Ultimately, the net value of the Miz’s WWE Title reign is that he can brag about main-eventing a WrestleMania no matter which Attitude Era mainstay turned Hollywood megastar helped him out.

9 AJ Styles

Out of everyone on this list, AJ Styles has got to be the worst champion with the best matches. He’s one of the best wrestlers in WWE, but his impressive year-long second WWE Title run is full of so many nonsense finishes like double count-outs and DQs and bad WWE versions of his NJPW matches with Shinsuke Nakamura that even the awesomely wild feud with Samoa Joe can’t quite keep this reign from leaving a bad taste in the mouths of fans.

8 Rey Mysterio

It’s not Rey Mysterio’s fault that he’s got one of the most disappointing WWE Title runs of the 21st century. It’s actually John Cena’s. You see, in 2011 Cena lost the title to CM Punk, who (kayfabe) quit the company and ran off with the belt, so WWE had to introduce a replacement title and hold a tournament to crown a new champion.

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Mysterio ended up winning the tournament on Raw and losing the title on the same night because John Cena thought he deserved another title shot. To be honest, he did not.

7 Dean Ambrose

The once and future Jon Moxley had the WWE Title for like five months in 2016 and it's barely remembered. Come to think of it, he hasn’t had a lot of great title runs -- remember when he won the US Title shortly after his debut and barely defended it? He cashed in Money in the Bank on Seth Rollins, got into a pretty good Shield triple-threat match at Battleground, feuded with Dolph Ziggler, and lost it to AJ Styles. More memorable is the aftermath, where chinless legend James Ellsworth entered the mix.

6 Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar being considered a “bad champion” comes with some caveats. He had great matches with Samoa Joe, Daniel Bryan, and AJ Styles, and the 2014-2015 WWE Title run that began with him German Suplexing John Cena into oblivion was awesome. Even his two reigns of terror with the Universal Title were pretty good, but once Seth Rollins got rid of him in two minutes at WrestleMania, it felt like the character had ultimately run its course. But then he had two more top title runs in the company, and it got seriously stale.

5 Alberto Del Rio

Alberto Del Rio was always a pretty good heel, a charming but sinister aristocrat who drove fancy cars to the ring and almost exclusively did limb work in matches. Yeah, he’s good, but his title runs in late 2011 were kind of annoying. Fans were still excited about CM Punk despite Triple H’s best efforts, so it felt like the money match was Punk and John Cena. Del Rio entering the mix just meant Cena had a new promising heel he could undercut with some belittling promos.

4 Sheamus

Sheamus’ initial 2015-2016 heel run was largely a misfire.

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He won Money in the Bank, cashed it in on Roman Reigns, and formed The League of Nations -- with fellow foreign heels Rusev, King Barrett, and Alberto Del Rio -- exclusively to hassle Reigns. The gimmick was DOA and didn’t do anything to endear fans to Reigns, nor did Sheamus’ 22-day reign as WWE Champion do much for him or the title. Sheamus would eventually form The Bar with Cesaro and fans all forgot this title run.

3 The Rock

In 2012, The Rock took on John Cena in the main event of WrestleMania XXVIII. The show was a massive success and, at the time, WWE’s most financially successful event ever. So naturally, they decided to do a sequel to the match at the following year’s ‘Mania, but with an added twist: The Rock won the WWE Championship from CM Punk.

It wasn’t much of a title run for Rocky, considering he only held it to justify a follow-up to a match that originally ran with the tagline “Once in a Lifetime.” So essentially, it was a plot contrivance that made The Rock a transitional champion.

2 Jinder Mahal

When Jinder Mahal -- a midcard jobber at best -- suddenly won the WWE Championship, it was baffling but was morbidly exciting because it was someone new in the main event scene. Unfortunately, the title run was one of those very old school heel runs where you don’t actually get to see any good wrestling and just have to suffer through Jinder Mahal having more than zero wins over Shinsuke Nakamura. It was such a bad title run that he wasn’t even deemed good enough to lose to Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series.

1 Bray Wyatt

Bray Wyatt -- both the hillbilly cult leader and the children’s television boogeyman -- is one of the best characters in modern WWE, provided you don’t include performance in matches in the equation. His WWE Championship win at Elimination Chamber 2017 was a real surprise, but it had a lot of potential, character-wise. After all, Bray Wyatt finally achieved something. What happens to him next? One title defense followed by a regular loss to regular Randy Orton at WrestleMania 33. Jinder Mahal’s reign is more memorable than Bray Wyatt’s. Then again, Jinder Mahal never lost a Championship to the overall worst champion of the 21st century.

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