1: David Arquette – WCW Champion
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WCW crowned their booker Vince Russo World Heavyweight Champion in the year 2000 but earlier on in the same year, they put the Big Gold Belt on David Arquette. Arquette was an untrained actor who was only crowned champion to promote the movie “Ready To Rumble”.
Needless to say, the movie bombed regardless of WCW promoting it by making Arquette Champion.
David Arquette first appeared at ringside during the April 10, 2000, episode of WCW Thunder where he climbed the barricade to confront Eric Bischoff and the New Blood.
After defeating Bischoff in a singles match on the April 24th episode of Nitro, he teamed up with DDP on the following episode of Thunder to take on Bischoff and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett. The match had one of the strangest stipulations ever – whoever scored the winning pinfall would be crowned champion. Needless to say, Arquette pinned Bischoff to win the title.
Arquette held the title for 12 days and it did not help WCW get the mainstream recognition they thought they would. Instead, their top title was devalued and never regained the prestige it had once had when it had been held by the likes of Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan and Goldberg.
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