10 Best WWE Championship Reigns Under 100 Days
1. CM Punk, 2011 (28 Days)
We all know the story by now.
In 2011, as CM Punk was leaving WWE, he defeated John Cena at Money in the Bank to win the WWE Championship. While Vince McMahon and friends frantically searched for a new "face of the company," Punk used Twitter to simultaneously proclaim himself the true champion and make a mockery of the company's top prize by putting it in the fridge (among other things).
A piece of the story that people often forget, however, is that this was not the beginning of Punk's historic 434-day title reign.
This was actually the first of two reigns for Punk, as he returned to the company to challenge (and defeat) interim champion Cena to a winner-take-all match at that year's SummerSlam. He would lose it almost immediately to an opportunistic Alberto Del Rio, who cashed in his MITB briefcase on the newly-minted champion.
Despite him legitimately leaving and resigning three weeks later, the company recognizes Punk as having held the championship from MITB to SummerSlam, which totals out to 28 days. Though this reign was brief, it helped move along what was arguably the greatest WWE storyline of the decade.