10 Longest WWE Championship Reigns Ever
8. Randy Savage (371 Days)
A sensational in-ring performer and fabulous box office draw beyond the measured expectations of the first significant run post-Hulk Hogan, the Macho Man Randy Savage was on reflection a creative masterstroke from Vince McMahon.
Running low of feeding big guys to the Hulkamania machine having made the best of his biggest in Andre, McMahon instead used the all-star friendship Hogan struck up with Savage in 1988 to strike gold with both a year later.
Savage's entire tenure was tacitly laced with the constant shadow his best friend, feeding just enough logic into the maniacal jealousy growing within the poisoned soul of the Macho Man. Their tag team matches sold pay-per-views, whilst Savage's solo work against Ted Dibiase, Andre The Giant and others drew healthily on house show loops.
The grand payoff between the Mega Powers at WrestleMania V was at the time the biggest payday in either man's career. If Savage's run was little more than a year-long experiment, it was one of the shrewdest in company history.