Can you be Main event material without ever being the World Champ?

[Hanso Amore]

These days, no, because there are so many titles that the main event is usually controlled by the title.

back in the 80s, there was one champ, and not so many PPVs, and even less title changes. Tons of legit, Drawing, main eventers were never champs.

Dibiase, Piper, Snuka, Koloff, Magnum TA, Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson, Paul orndorff, The Legion of Doom, Rock and Roll Express, Mr. Perfect, Rick Rude and so on, all LEGIT main eventers and draws, Never WORLD Champ.

Its just a chnage in the times, you know?

[DLVH84]

Originally Posted by Hanso These days, no, because there are so many titles that the main event is usually controlled by the title. back in the 80s, there was one champ, and not so many PPVs, and even less title changes. Tons of legit, Drawing, main eventers were never champs. Dibiase, Piper, Snuka, Koloff, Magnum TA, Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson, Paul orndorff, The Legion of Doom, Rock and Roll Express, Mr. Perfect, Rick Rude and so on, all LEGIT main eventers and draws, Never WORLD Champ. Its just a chnage in the times, you know?

Mr. Perfect has been a World Champion. He was the AWA World Champion.

Rick Rude was also a World Champion, three times over. He was the very first WCWA World Champion, when World Class Championship Wrestling broke away from the National Wrestling Alliance in February 1986, and he was a two-time WCW International World Heavyweight Champion.