10 Youngest WWE Champions Ever
7. The Big Show - 27
Date First WWE Title Won: November 14th, 1999
Age: 27 years, 9 months, 6 days
By his own admittance, The Big Show's astonishing early successes in the wrestling business grossly hamstrung his growth and maturity as a performer, with a WCW World Title landing in his lap at the tender age of 23 thanks to a victory over Hulk Hogan in his very first match.
WWE's decision to insert him into the Survivor Series 1999 main event as a last minute replacement for hit-and-run victim Stone Cold Steve Austin was a last gasp effort to make good on the bloated ten year contract he'd been offered upon arriving in February that year.
After failing to impress management or fellow talents with his lackadaisical attitude fostered in WCW's wild west locker room, the company planted the top strap on him to try and make the belt do the work.
Furthermore, his tearful victory came midway through a darkly comical programme with the Big Boss Man didn't help in attaching gravitas to his latest historic achievement.