10 Best WWE Championship Reigns Of The 2010s
These wrestlers all had incredible WWE Championship reigns throughout the wild decade of the 2010s.
As much as we'd all like to believe they weren't, the 2010s were a long time ago.
The world feels like a very different place than it did when the calendar first flipped over to 2010. Just look at WWE if you don't believe.
The company underwent so many changes during this pivotal decade. Legends retired, new stars were minted, and the WWE Network changed the way we watch wrestling forever. It was a wild time.
As always, the WWE Championship is a great indicator of what was happening during this period. There were some pretty naff reigns in the 2010s, but the most important belt in wrestling history also had its fair share of highlights.
Long or short, rookie or veteran, history-making or hidden gem, the following championship reigns all defined this portion of WWE in one way or another. We've based this ranking on how the title was won, how it was lost, the matches and moments that made up the reign, and the historical significance it holds today.
Get ready for a trip to the not-too-distant past.
10. John Cena (March-June 2010)
John Cena's sixth WWE Championship reign began and ended on the same night.
Batista made a surprise appearance at the end of Elimination Chamber 2010 and beat his rival for the gold after he'd just won it. Don't ask why this happened, because it doesn't make a great deal of sense.
This led to the beginning of Cena's seventh go-around, which began when he beat The Animal at WrestleMania XXVI. Big Dave made up the majority of Cena's rivalries during this reign, as he faced him on the next two pay-per-views.
That might sound lazy... and it is... but the matches were pretty good.
A Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules and an I Quit match at Over the Limit were both really strong, which made up for the lacklustre way in which Cena lost the title. He dropped it to Sheamus at the ill-fated Fatal 4-Way show after interference from The Nexus, which is a cursed sentence all around.
84 days is far from a gigantic title reign, but Cena having two good pay-per-view bouts back-to-back was a minor miracle at this point.