10 Longest Reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champions
9. Scott Steiner - 120 Days
We have a tie next, featuring two men who made their names in brotherly tag team wrestling and would both become the 'Shawn Michaels' of their duos (as opposed to the Marty Jannetty). Scott Steiner was always a special type of beast, and no one was surprised when he became a breakout singles star in the dying days of World Championship Wrestling. As part of a stable led by Ric Flair, Steiner would get one single World Heavywright Title reign, and it was the last to feature on WCW TV. He defeated Booker T for the strap in a Straitjacket Steel Cage match - towards its end WCW was completely obsessed with preposterous gimmick matches. Steiner would hold the belt for 120 days before losing it on the final ever episode of WCW Nitro. The man he lost it to would also hold the belt for 120 days, and that man was...
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