10 Most Successful Champions In WWE History
7. Triple H
WWE Championship Reign(s): August 23, 1999 - September 14, 1999, September 26, 1999 - November 14, 1999, January 3, 2000 - April 30, 2000, May 21, 2000 - June 25, 2000, March 17, 2002 - April 21, 2002, October 7, 2007 - October 7, 2007, April 27, 2008 - November 23, 2008, February 15, 2009 - April 26, 2009, January 24, 2016 - April 3, 2016
As outlined in the introduction to this article, Dave Meltzer's criteria ranked his wrestlers "based on placings in the top ten by year with emphasis on record setting years and dominant years based on doubling everyone else in that specific year".
The year 2000 belonged to Triple H, and that's a badge of honour far beyond his laundry list of outstanding matches. 'The Game' was the man between the ropes in what had then been WWE's commercial zenith, and all as the industry went as mainstream as it ever would. He stuck around, of course, for drastically diminished returns, but the numbers - unlike Hunter himself to Julie Hart at Survivor Series 1997 - don't lie.