10 Greatest wrestlers who never became the World Champion

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#8 Jake 'The Snake' Roberts

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Forget the WWE Championship, surprisingly never held any other title in WWE

Jake Roberts made his WWE debut back in 1986. Being accompanied to the ring by an 18 ft long snake named Damien, Jake made an immediate impact in the cartoon word of WWE.

Jake also quickly became known as someone to fear as he would throw Damien onto his opponents, following victories. Jake had gotten over quickly as a heel thanks to feuds with the likes of Ricky Steamboat. His skills in the ring and on the mic impressed Vince McMahon so much that he decided to put him in a feud with Hulk Hogan for the WWE Championship.

Jake would DDT Hogan during an episode of The Snake Pit, to which fans surprisingly responded positively to the attack by chanting "DDT" rather than for Hogan, and McMahon abandoned his plans for a feud between them. This would be the closest Jake ever came to becoming on that WWE Champion level, and potentially Champion, and it was canceled before it happened.

Jake would spend the remainder of his WWE career feuding with Randy Savage, The Undertaker, Steve Austin and more, but would never hold, not just the WWE Championship, but any Championship at all in WWE.

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Edited by Shruti Sadbhav
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