6 WWE Records That Were Needlessly Broken

by John Bills

1. Youngest World Champion - Randy Orton

Randy Orton SummerSlam 2004 World Heavyweight Champion
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Brock Lesnar's rise to the top was astronomical to say the least, going through new rookie to WWE Undisputed Champion in just 126 days, second only to Ric Flair in terms of time. Brock Lesnar was a heck of a lot younger than Flair however, and at 25 years of age was the youngest WWE Champion in history.

Lesnar would walk out of the company two years later, and the first few months (and years) weren't full of jovial blood between WWE and their youngest world champion. WWE wanted to remove Lesnar from as much of history as possible, and whilst this didn't go to eventual Chris Benoit and Hulk Hogan levels, it was still fairly vindictive at the time.

Benoit was play a part in Lesnar losing his spot as youngest world champion in company history, as the then-World Heavyweight Champion shockingly dropped the title at SummerSlam 2004 to the then-24 year old Randy Orton. The Legend Killer wasn't quite ready for the spot, but a mixture of a good year for Randy and a childish state of mind from WWE handed Orton a world championship and a record.

What records could be the next ones to fall? Is CM Punk's 434-day reign in danger? What do you think?

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.