Chris Masters comments on why he never won a championship in WWE

Then the Intercontinental title—I was actually supposed to win that, but it was at the same point where they had given me an intervention for my prescription painkiller abuse at the time. They even told me—I remember having the meeting with Johnny [Ace]—and because there was a four-way match that night, it was in Vegas for the Intercontinental title that I was slated to win. But then they caught wind that I had the issues I had, and I had an intervention, and basically told me, ‘You’re going to rehab.’ I screwed that.

So the tag belts—I had no control over that, it just happened. IC, I f’d up. There was a point there, because you can even watch back to those old Raws where Vince was playing with the idea of making me the youngest champion. But, you know, he was feeling out a lot of guys at that point, you know. I’m pretty sure Cena gave me probably the thumbs down at some point.”