10 Longest Times Between First And Last WWE Title Victories

2. Ted DiBiase - 13 February 1979 - 23 July 2019 (40 Years, 5 Months, 9 Days)

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There's a peculiar parallelism linking Ted DiBiase and Pat Patterson's upper-echelon appearances on this list.

Besides the tag team titles, The Million Dollar Man never won a belt through legitimate means once - even before he was splashing the cash. In 1979, the newly-signed youngster was awarded WWE's newly created North American championship in a bid to make him a star. A few months later, it was unified with the fictional South American equivalent in Rio de Janeiro when he lost to none other than Pat Patterson.

Just over 40 years later, DiBiase exchanged cash for Alundra Blayze's 24/7 title, both retroactively legitimising his dodgy deal with Andre the Giant way back in 1988, and being elevated in this curious record just hours after the Canadian had won the title himself.

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