Date: July 11th, 1999 Event: Bash At The Beach Age Of Champion: 46 years, 238 days People like Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair and Roddy Piper being involved in main events and the WCW Title picture was one of the biggest joke punchlines for the WWF. The jokes poked fun at how WCW was only pushing the older names, and those who some felt were "over the hill" and "past their prime". At 1999's Bash At The Beach pay-per-view, the "Macho Man" won the WCW Title for the fourth time. It was his shortest reign (he would lose the title to Hogan the next night), but it was still a prime example of who WCW was looking for to represent their company as champion. From the night that The Giant lost the title to Hogan at 1996's Hog Wild event until the night of the final episode of Nitro in 2001, the youngest WCW Champion, covering a span of 40 total reigns, was David Arquette, who was 28 when he won. If you're looking at only full-time wrestlers in that span, Goldberg's win at 31 years old makes for the youngest champ. Just about every other champ in that time frame was pushing 40, if not over 40. It's a key reason WCW lost the Monday Night War. They simply weren't putting anyone new into the title picture, and fans were growing tired of seeing the same people winning every month.
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