@DemetriusP49710@IconicChriss My bad, I just realised you said the US championship, not the main WCW main belt, so in that case what I said was incorrect. The real answer is Tajiri (unless you count Kanyon who was literally just given the belt)
@wrestling_VI By the end of '97 Bret's whole deal just seemed old fashioned and out of place. Between Austin 3:16 heating up in the WWF, and the nWo in WCW, Bret just didn't fit in anywhere.