10 Best World Title Celebrations In WWE History

Professional wrestling is a business/sport defined by amazing moments, and no occasion should be more memorable for a wrestler than capturing the World Title. Whether it’s his first reign or his 15th, title wins go some way towards defining a wrestler’s career and, even in today’s homogenised wrestling market, WWE fans will tune-in in droves for a big championship bout.

The WWE Title has been a fixture in such moments since the sport’s inception. Even though WWE haven’t always treated their champions with the greatest respect in recent years, it’s tough to beat that huge, cathartic moment when a wrestler overcomes the odds and takes home the richest prize in the game.

This is what competitors spend their lives fighting for, and when they reach the top it’s validation for all the blood, sweat, and tears shed to get there.

With great victories, come great celebrations. Such massive triumphs always prompt a huge outpouring of emotion, and whether the wrestler’s intention is to connect with the fans or rub the glory in their faces, such wins are usually closely-followed by big-time celebrations.

Some of these entries take place as soon as the bell has rung, with superstars completely lost in the moment and consumed by their achievement, while others sit in the days following a World Title win.

Regardless, here are the 10 best World Title celebrations in WWE history.

Sometimes even the best laid plans fall apart. Fresh off defending his WWE Championship against John Cena the night before, Seth Rollins had demanded a statue be erected in his honour, and true to his word, Triple H delivered on Raw.

The Authority had already had Cena escorted from the building, knowing that he’d likely ruin the ceremony. After Triple H and Stephanie had incited he crowd’s wrath by bigging-up The Architect’s accomplishments, Rollins hit the ring, compared himself to Babe Ruth and laid into his rival Cena.

Things didn’t work out the way he’d planned, however. The drumroll hit, and the curtain was pulled away, but it wasn’t a statute that was unveiled: it was Sting. The Icon ambushed Rollins and laid him out with a Stinger Splash, sending The Authority scampering away on what should’ve been Rollins’ big night.

The show went off the air with Sting holding the championship high, and Rollins seething.

Though the celebration ended in disaster for the champion, it was a hugely satisfying moment for the fans. The statue idea was so grandiose, over-the-top, and designed solely to inflate the champion’s ego and troll the fans. While the actual statue would eventually be unveiled the following week, Sting had saved the WWE Universe the trouble of having to sit through Seth Rollin’s self-indulgence