10 Fastest Pushes In WWE History

3. Pedro Morales (79 Days)

The dates are rather more concrete for Pedro Morales, though, who kicks off our top three with his blistering 79-day push to the title.

Morales had featured for the company in a rather more low-key capacity in the mid 1960s, but then after a five-year absence he re-debuted on 21 November 1970, when he joined Chief Jay Strongbow to face Beppo & Geeto, the Mongols, in tag team action.

Victory over Joe Turco in his singles re-debut followed, as well as a brief stint with the short-lived WWWF United States Heavyweight Championship belt, before he challenged Ivan Koloff for the WWWF World Heavyweight title, fittingly, in Madison Square Garden on 8 February 1971.

Morales was victorious, bringing Koloff’s reign to an end after just three short weeks, providing us with one of the first examples of a “transitional” champion.

Subsequently, Morales’ reign was anything but transitional. He held the strap for 1,027 days in total—that’s 13 times longer than it took him to win it in the first place.