Was JBL a transitional champion?
Only champ once but the reign was 10~ months. Won from Eddie lost to Cena.
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A transitional champ is Iron Sheik holding the belt for less than a month to move the title from Backlund to Hogan. That's his sole purpose . Not a lot invested in the Sheik. Quite a bit invested in JBL.
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Wayyyy too long of a run to be a transitional champ.
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It was a 10 month reign.
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The entire Attitude Era was just transitional champs if a ten month reign can be looked at as such.
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Kinda. I feel like they needed it on a heal and didn't really have a plan in mind. Jinder Mahal held it for quite awhile and he was transitional. So I think even though it was a long reign they were just waiting for something better.
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I don't think Jinder was transitional. That was the WWE trying to get a foothold in India and it not working.
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The World Heavyweight Title seemed to have a whole shitload of transitional reigns from like 2007 on. |
Guys like Ivan Koloff and Stan Stasiak in the WWWF are textbook transitional champions
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He was keeping it warm for John Cena /s
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Yeah no way you can call a long reign transitional, especially considering the guys he defended successfully against like Taker and Big Show.
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And Booker T and Kurt Angle
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No. His reign was too long to be transitional and it wasn't till way later into his reign that Cena started to really emerge as the legit next mega star for WWE.
Before Royal Rumble 2005, WWE had been more focused on trying to get Randy Orton over as the next future mega star after Lesnar left. |
If your definition of "transition champion" is just to get the belt from one person to another, eventually, then every champion is transitional.
I absolutely HATED Jinder Mahal's WWE Title reign, but as much as I hate to say it, and as much as I criticized them at the time, WWE probably knew it wasn't going to launch business in India instantly. They'd done stuff with The Great Khali in the past, and he was a much bigger star. I think it's more about fertilizing the ground there, so there's a long history of WWE being good to India. Maybe TV deals were coming up too, and the stations over there pay a shit-tonne? Part of me still thinks Vince either lost a bet, it was a joke that got way out of hand, or Vince was just sick of needing to depend on indy-style workers, so he went with a jacked up guy with absolutely no talent. |
One of the guys that often gets considered a transitional champion is Mick Foley, but his win was really about generating a hot product, a great moment and creating that "anything can happen" drama. Do you think he qualifies? Plus he moved the title from The Rock to The Rock.
SummerSlam '99 yeah, absolutely. |
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Foleys hot shot was a ratings stunt. He wasnt transitional as you said he transitioned nothing
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Won it at the Rumble and lost it at Wrestlemania two months later.
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AND THAT'S AN ORDER
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The only reason he had it was because no one was available and Eddie wasn't cutting it. Plus, Vince is a spiteful, self-destructive idiot so he just had to 'get back' at Fox for firing Layfield. He was absolutely a transitional champion.
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That's not really what a transitional champion though. Getting back at FOX is, in itself, a completely different motive than transitioning the belt.
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There were other options available like Angle, Booker T, Big Show, Taker etc..
JBL is also my favourite wrestler of all time |
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Lesnar wasn't anything until he came back |
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But that doesn't make him a transitional champion. A lot of time and money was put into him. That doesn't happen to transitional champions.
And JBL had a lot of title defences against wrestlers who have drawn money. They could have easily taken the belt off him. |
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Fuck you. JBL is one of the greatest WWE Champions of all time.
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They literally gave JBL the longest reign as Champion in the history of Smackdown....
Vince isn't going to waste 10 months worth of money out of spite. That's delusional. |
I wish I could neg rep you for this but it won't allow me without commenting and mobile won't let me do it.
JBL is a wrestling GOD and you should burn in hell from a clothesline. |
Nevermind I was able to copy paste a comment into it. Congratulations you are my first neg rep I believe.
But still Fuck You. JBL is a Wrestling GOD damnit. |
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You know Vince?
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