10 Times WWE Championships Changed Hands Twice In The Same Night

10. TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2011

Mark Henry to Big Show to Daniel Bryan - World Heavyweight Championship.

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The first of many Money in the Bank cash-ins on this list, Daniel Bryan walked out of TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2011 as World Heavyweight Champion after a laboured Chairs Match between Big Show and Mark Henry. It wasn't even the strangest stipulation at the event; it followed a Sledgehammer Ladder Match between Triple H and Kevin Nash, which was somehow the final battle of the Summer of Punk.

The master of the Hall of Pain was having a career resurgence but lost after a KO Punch, giving Big Show his first reign with the Big Gold Belt since he was in WCW and sending him to the top of the industry for the first time since 2002…

...for 45 seconds. That's about a second for every time he's turned from face to heel and back again in his career. Finished off by a DDT onto a pile of chairs by the World Strongest Man, the World’s Largest Athlete (how was this match not booked as strongest against largest?) lay motionless as Bryan ran to the ring with a referee and his shiny blue briefcase.

A pinfall later, and the American Dragon was World Heavyweight Champion for the first time. This was the 10th consecutive Money in the Bank contract to be cashed in and the second where Mark Henry laid out the champion beforehand; he was a true gift to cowards waiting at Gorilla Position for a cheap victory.

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