10 Longest Gaps Ever Between WWE World Title Matches

Goldberg's 13 year wait ends on Sunday - but who had to wait longer for another World Title match?

by John Bills
Goldberg Owens
WWE.com

This coming Sunday, WWE fans will get to see something that they haven't witnessed in over a decade. Goldberg will challenge for a World Championship in WWE, ending a 13 year wait that many believed would run for all eternity.

World Championship matches aren't as rare as they once were. Many iconic performers went their whole WWE careers without getting a shot at the main prize in the company, but by the time the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression Eras came around, title shots were ten a penny. Even The Fabulous Moolah got one.

Some men have had to wait longer than others to get a shot at the big one, however...

A note on criteria: this list includes all variations of the WWE Championship, the World Heavyweight Championship and the ECW Heavyweight Championship (under the WWE banner). Only matches on television or pay-per-view in the WrestleMania era (post-1985) are taken into account.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.