10 REALLY Long WWE Title Reigns That Didn’t Work
5. Brian Kendrick & Paul London - WWE Tag Team Champions (331 Days)
Fellow recipients of record-smashing ignorance by their employers, Brian Kendrick and Paul London's lengthy stint with the blue brand's tag team titles would have been exclusively sad had it not on occasion been absolutely excellent.
Seemingly thriving on the creative ignorance, London and Kendrick elected to just have good matches where there may not have been good matches before - the dreaded SmackDown-only pay-per-views.
The pair had blinding battles with a Dave Taylor/William Regal duo, developmental no-marks KC James & Idol Stevens (pre-Damien Sandow) and emerged victorious and just about unscathed from a memorable four-way ladder match featuring the aforementioned Brits, MNM and The Hardy Boyz.
Much like Dean Ambrose's Sheamus surrender, the decision to take the titles off them so close to the year mark seemed rooted in cynicism - particularly considering that surprise winners Deuce N Domino achieved less than nothing in their own 133 day-reign that followed. Paul London's passive aggressive pearly whites in his infamous 2007 stare-down with Vince McMahon told the whole story of his growing disdain with the organisation after such reckless mistreatment.