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3 male WWE Superstars who relinquished their championship titles

Universal Championship belt
Universal Championship belt

Today WWE is the biggest wrestling company in the world. The company has always amazed their fans with a large amount of action, promos, and high flying moves. Almost every wrestling fan knows that WWE matches are scripted. Matches, promos, interviews, and all other things that we see in WWE are scripted.

Everything is scripted except botched moves, wrestling injuries, or sudden illness. Sometimes the unexpected injury or illness can cause a wrestler to relinquish a title without even being defeated in a match.

Nothing is worse than an unexpected injury to a wrestler who is being given a strong push by the company and is in good momentum. Injury can totally destroy the momentum and take them from the main event scene to the mid-card. It not only destroys momentum but stops the push given by the company. 

Here are 3 male WWE Superstars who relinquished their championship belts.


#3 Seth Rollins

Seth Rollins relinquished his WWE Championship
Seth Rollins relinquished his WWE Championship

In November 2015, Seth Rollins suffered a knee injury at a WWE live event in Dublin, Ireland. He tore his right ACL, MCL, and medial meniscus in a match with Kane which kept him out of wrestling for almost 7 months. Due to injury, Seth Rollins missed WrestleMania 32. 

After his injury, Seth relinquished his WWE title which was later won by Roman Reigns at Survivor Series. At Extreme Rules 2016, Seth returned and attacked Roman Reigns after his vicious match with AJ Styles. He later challenged Roman at Money in the Bank where The Architect won, but Dean cashed in his MITB briefcase and pinned Seth Rollins to win his first WWE title.

Currently, Seth is the winner of this year’s Royal Rumble and is going to challenge Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 35.

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