10 Epic WWE Championship Reigns That Aren't As Long As You Think

10. Drew McIntyre - WWE Championship - Days: 214. Recognised By WWE: 203.

Poor Drew McIntyre. When he eliminated Brock Lesnar from the Royal Rumble in 2020, the crowd cheered him to victory, knowing a showdown with the Beast Incarnate was waiting in Tampa, Florida.

Everybody knows what happened next…

The world changed; we all spent 18 months at home as the WWE carried on from empty arenas. Perhaps the sparsest of them all was the Performance Centre on March 25, when the Chosen One defeated Lesnar for the WWE Championship he’d been promised more than a decade before.

We’d find out years later in McIntyre’s memoir the exact day WrestleMania 36 was filmed, with the WWE taking 11 days off the Scottish Psychopath’s reign by using the air date of April 5 rather than the taping date of March 25. Across two reigns he’d hold the belt for over 300 days, never once raising the gold in front of a crowd that sorely wanted to cheer the first ever British world champion.