10 Oldest WWE Champions Ever
3. Hulk Hogan - 48
Date Last WWE Title Won: April 21st, 2002
Age: 48 years, 8 months, 10 days
WWE fans were sh*tfaced on 'member berry wine when Hulk Hogan returned to the organisation nine years after Yokozuna legdropped him all the way to WCW.
The New World Order's return in February 2002 masked an overwhelming desperation for jaded post-Attitude Era fans that had survived adolescence to warmly embrace the phenomenon that introduced them to professional wrestling in their youth.
When Hogan severed ties with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash at the climax of his emotionally exhausting WrestleMania clash with The Rock, a return to the aesthetics and ethics of Hulkamania was a bizarrely enjoyable inevitability.
Hindsight rapidly showed the error in putting the title on Hogan one month later, but it logically clung together at the time. Audiences were rabid for Hogan having started to finally tire of WWE's established Austin/Rock/HHH topline trio, but the nostalgia pops didn't translate to particularly strong ticket sales or ratings with 'The Hulkster' actually back at the top of the tree.
It's worth noting that although he looked every bit the weathered relic his video packages presented him as at the time, Hulk was just 8 years older then than AJ Styles and Bobby Roode are now. Maybe the fountain of youth was hidden in the Impact Zone all along?