10 Longest Gaps In WWE World Title Defenses
1. Brock Lesnar
Title: WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Dates of Title Defenses: September 21, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Days Between Defenses: 127
And here is the birth of this entire list, the first massive gap in title defenses, and it started just weeks after Brock Lesnar won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in epic fashion from John Cena at SummerSlam.
Brock would defend the title at Night of Champions against Cena, losing by DQ, and then he would not put the title up again until Royal Rumble 2015, when he beat Cena and Seth Rollins. Again, that’s a four-plus month gap without your world title being defended on TV or PPV.
Lesnar would then have another two-month gap between the Rumble and WrestleMania 31, where he would lose the title due to Seth Rollins’ unforgettable mid-match Money in the Bank cash-in.
And once again, who was left holding the bag on a lengthy Brock title reign and made to look like a fool? Roman Reigns. These two are just very weirdly intertwined, and now history is working in reverse with Lesnar challenging Reigns repeatedly and unsuccessfully.