10 Longest Gaps In WWE World Title Defenses

10. The Fiend

Title: WWE Universal Championship

Dates of Title Defenses: November 24, 2019 – January 26, 2020

Days Between Defenses: 64

Bray Wyatt’s rebirth as The Fiend seemed to signal a new era for the character that – if managed correctly – could have worked tremendously well.

Of course, this is WWE, so we know how it played out. Fiend’s first run at the Universal Championship was the horrific Hell in a Cell match that ended without a winner against champ Seth Rollins. They ran it back at Crown Jewel and Fiend captured the title.

He defended the title against Daniel Bryan the following month at Survivor Series, but then would not put the title up again until Royal Rumble 2020 against Bryan again, with Fiend winning that one as well.

We get that Fiend was supposed to be more of a special character who didn’t appear and wrestle all the time, but taking two-plus months off from defending your title isn’t elevating the championship or wrestler.

And then Fiend was obliterated a month later at Super ShowDown by Goldberg, rendering the “specialness” moot.