Him winning the EC out of nowhere and getting a world title match at Wrestlemania is one of the weirdest/worst moves they've made this decade.
 I would've still went with full Jim Duggan patriot makeover so he'd have some cheap pops for his matches, but there's still a lot of people who don't get regular TV time who are more over, so it's not that big a loss.
another great theme gone forever![]()

There wasn't a single bit of build leading into that win. With past winners there was at least some type of hint they'd win, or other guys looked credible to where you could believe they'd win. With Swagger, it was nothing at all, and the crowd responded in kind.

The fact that this guy was the World Champion and ended up going out like a bum is a testament to how irrelevant the WWE titles are. Who in the 90s went from WWF Champ to jabroni? Hogan, Warrior, Slaughter, Undertaker, Flair, Macho Man, HitGOAT, Yokozuna, Bacclund, Diesel, Shawn, Sid, Austin, Kane, HHH, Foley, Rock, Big Show. That's every WWF Champ in the 90's. The lowest any of them fell was Yoko to the midcard

The fact that this guy was the World Champion and ended up going out like a bum is a testament to how irrelevant the WWE titles are. Who in the 90s went from WWF Champ to jabroni? Hogan, Warrior, Slaughter, Undertaker, Flair, Macho Man, HitGOAT, Yokozuna, Bacclund, Diesel, Shawn, Sid, Austin, Kane, HHH, Foley, Rock, Big Show. That's every WWF Champ in the 90's. The lowest any of them fell was Yoko to the midcard
Kane and Big Show fell pretty hard. Big Show was wearing diapers and dressing like Hogan for awhile in the early-2000's. Kane turned into a comedy act for awhile. Both of them eventually found their way back to the main event though, I guess.
) outside of his theme and catchphraseIt's still Kane and Big Show though. monsters/big men like that have always had the ability to have the switch flipped on them like that. It's very easy to buy them as legit if you want to push them. Swagger was a dude that had his personality nuked as soon as he won, and after losing the title, had been a relative footnote for SEVEN YEARS () outside of his theme and catchphrase
Did he really make it back to the main event scene if no one remembers ?Swagger wrestled ADR at Wrestlemania fairly recently for the WHC though, so he did technically make it back to the main event.

Did he really make it back to the main event scene if no one remembers ?

The fact that this is all of them in a decade speaks volumes itself.The fact that this guy was the World Champion and ended up going out like a bum is a testament to how irrelevant the WWE titles are. Who in the 90s went from WWF Champ to jabroni? Hogan, Warrior, Slaughter, Undertaker, Flair, Macho Man, HitGOAT, Yokozuna, Bacclund, Diesel, Shawn, Sid, Austin, Kane, HHH, Foley, Rock, Big Show. That's every WWF Champ in the 90's. The lowest any of them fell was Yoko to the midcard