10 Most Successful Champions In WWE History
1. Bruno Sammartino
WWE Championship Reign(s): May 17, 1963 - January 18, 1971, December 10, 1973 - April 30, 1977
Long before Encanto turned not talking about Bruno into a f*cking art form, WWE were masters of it in a rather unfair whitewashing of The Guy.
When WWE had more initials and owned New York City, Bruno Sammartino was their top star and an enormous reason for all the success. A working class hero that appealed to diverse audience within an otherwise fractious multicultural city in the 1960s and 70s,
Two lengthy stints as Champion defined the decades for Vince McMahon Snr's territory, etching Sammartino's place in company history even if it didn't seem that way after an acrimonious split with Junior in the late 1980s. Triple H repaired the relationship in the mid-2010s, and a series of awesome matches, moments and new interviews at long last made it to the Network, undoubtedly finding a few tenners for the coffers as a result.