10 Longest Gaps Ever Between WWE World Title Matches

8. Viscera - 7 Years, 10 Months, 1 Day

Viscera CM Punk
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Viscera is another man whose previous World Title match came under a different alias. After suffering a four year wait, following his unsuccessful attempt to take the WWF Championship away from Diesel at SummerSlam '95, Viscera was again on the losing side of a World Title match on SmackDown in December 1999.

Big Show was the champion at this point, and the battle of the behemoths was all over within two minutes, with Viscera flat on his back staring at the lights, wondering when his next World Championship opportunity would arrive.

Almost eight years was the answer to Viscera's question - and it took a persona change and the resurrection of a long-dead promotion to make it happen. In the summer of 2007, the revamped ECW became somewhat obsessed with monsters as Kane, Mark Henry and Viscera met on a frequent basis. By this time, Viscera was called Big Daddy V, but his mass remained on show for all the world to see.

Big Daddy V challenged CM Punk for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at No Mercy 2007, with Punk coming out victorious after a frankly terrible two minutes. This was the last World Championship match of Big Daddy V's WWE career.

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