5 WWE Superstars you may not know were IMPACT World Champions

#1 WWE and IMPACT star Bobby Roode/Robert Roode

He's a current WWE Tag-Team Champion, so Bobby Roode isn't doing too badly for himself in WWE, even without the iconic entrance that got him over that the Superstar used to have in his early WWE days.

But, thanks to his role as one half of the TNA/IMPACT Wrestling tag-team Beer Money, Bobby Roode's popularity in TNA/IMPACT far exceeded the scale of a tag-team wrestler, catapulting him into the main event and an eventual world title win.

Vintage #Smackdown pic.twitter.com/Om1ExchFD4

— Robert Roode (@RealRobertRoode) May 7, 2021

The set-up is a fairly convoluted affair, but to cut a long story short, Bobby Roode ended up facing his tag-team partner, James Storm, for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and he ultimately ended up turning heel, dissolving Beer Money and winning the title from his former friend.

Today in #IMPACTHistory: Bobby Roode defeated AJ Styles to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. (Turning Point, 2011) pic.twitter.com/mNL2gtPNZU

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) November 14, 2020

The subsequent reign of Roode would go on to be IMPACT Wrestling's longest running world title run at 256 days. Roode would win the title once again in 2014 a few years later, but he only held it for a paltry 111 days in comparison the second time.