10 Longest Gaps Ever Between WWE World Title Matches

7. Hulk Hogan - 8 Years, 10 Months, 8 Days

Backlash 2002 Hulk Hogan Triple H Legdrop
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The King of Pantomime left the World Wrestling Federation in 1993 after dropping the WWF Championship to Yokozuna and his feisty photographers at King of the Ring '93 - but not before defeating the new champion consistently on the ensuing house show run. Hogan went to WCW, and it seemed as though his days challenging for Championships in the WWF were over - and not just because he helped almost put his former home out of business.

WCW eventually died, and Hogan returned home in 2002. The Toronto crowd at WrestleMania X-8 turned him babyface - whether the company wanted it or not - and Hulkamania was about to run wild over the whole universe once again. One month after losing to The Rock at the Show of Shows, Hulk Hogan challenged Triple H for the WWF Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship at Backlash. It was his first WWF title match in almost nine years.

Hogan won the title and was actually the World Champion when the company changed its name from the World Wrestling Federation to World Wrestling Entertainment, despite it being a new era and him being 49 years old at the time.

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