10 Times WWE Championships Changed Hands Twice In The Same Night

Imagine telling somebody watching Bruno Sammartino at Madison Square Garden in the 1960s that the WWE Championship would change hands more than once in the same night; they definitely wouldn't have believed you. Title changes used to be rare, but sometimes you can't get away from them.

Since Money in the Bank became an annual event, belts have moved all over the place as, like an RKO, impromptu matches come out of nowhere leading to some of the shortest reigns in history.

You can’t beat seeing a championship win, so to see two (or on one occasion three) happen at the same event gives you next level bragging rights...

...if your favourite wins of course. This kind of swerve has changed the Road to WrestleMania, pulled the rug out from under a top babyface finally taking home the gold, or straight up ruined the end of the biggest event of the year. Vince Russo, eat your heart out.

To name drop another WhatCulture feature, this list really is a series of ups and downs. You'll be reminded of incredible nights of sports entertainment, and angered by moments of madness that you'd wisely blocked out of your mind...

Mark Henry to Big Show to Daniel Bryan - World Heavyweight Championship.

The first of many Money in the Bank cash-ins on this list, Daniel Bryan walked out of TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2011 as World Heavyweight Champion after a laboured Chairs Match between Big Show and Mark Henry. It wasn't even the strangest stipulation at the event; it followed a Sledgehammer Ladder Match between Triple H and Kevin Nash, which was somehow the final battle of the Summer of Punk.

The master of the Hall of Pain was having a career resurgence but lost after a KO Punch, giving Big Show his first reign with the Big Gold Belt since he was in WCW and sending him to the top of the industry for the first time since 2002…

...for 45 seconds. That's about a second for every time he's turned from face to heel and back again in his career. Finished off by a DDT onto a pile of chairs by the World Strongest Man, the World’s Largest Athlete (how was this match not booked as strongest against largest?) lay motionless as Bryan ran to the ring with a referee and his shiny blue briefcase.

A pinfall later, and the American Dragon was World Heavyweight Champion for the first time. This was the 10th consecutive Money in the Bank contract to be cashed in and the second where Mark Henry laid out the champion beforehand; he was a true gift to cowards waiting at Gorilla Position for a cheap victory.