Top 20 worst world title changes in wrestling history

12. Kevin Nash def. Booker T: Monday Nitro – August 28, 2000

I told you Kevin Nash would start showing up more on this list and he makes the cut for the second spot in a row. And there’s more coming. I’d like to welcome WCW to the list at this point, and trust me, there’s more of that coming as well. A lot of spots on this list are intertwined and this is one of those times. Remember the Hulk Hogan-Jeff Jarrett-Vince Russo debacle at Bash at the Beach that summer? I’ll hit the details there shortly but the biggest thing to come out of that was Vince Russo saying that the older generation of guys like Hulk Hogan were out and the new era of guys like Jarrett and Booker T were in. Well, that was true on that night as Booker T became the new World Heavyweight Champion.

Booker T’s first reign didn’t end right away, as he did hold the title for 50 days, but when it was decided that it was time to take the title off of him, was it one of the new-generation stars of WCW that did it? Nope. On the August 28, 2000 episode of Nitro, Booker T lost the Big Gold Belt to Kevin Nash, who in another awful title exchange had given the title to Ric Flair (his 16th and final reign) just a few months earlier. I guess he wasn’t feeling so generous this time around and kept the title for nearly three weeks, losing it back at Fall Brawl to … Booker T. Exactly why did they take it off of him? Surely they couldn’t have known back then how cool being the “five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time” champion was going to sound, right? But at least it was a wrestler that took the title from him that time. That’s more than I can say for what happened the next time around.