10 Shortest WWE Champions Ever

10. Buddy Rogers - 6'0"

Just edging out Bret Hart on weight difference (Bret was billed as being eight pounds heavier), the list begins with the man who would be notoriously aped by Ric Flair. Buddy Rogers was the original 'Nature Boy', he was used the figure-four leglock as a finisher (with considerably more success than Flair) and had the hair and mannerisms to boot.

Rogers was also the very first World Wide Wrestling Federation champion, claiming the belt in 1963. The story was that Rogers won a tournament in Rio de Janeiro, but the truth was that he was the NWA Champion when the WWWF broke away. Vince McMahon Sr. wasn't exactly too happy with Rogers as his champion however, and just 22 days later he lost the strap to Bruno Sammartino.