14 WWE Wrestlers With The Longest Gaps Between Title Reigns

Billy Gunn and Road Dogg had held the WWF World Tag Team Titles five times since 1997, but their championship days ended in February of 2000 when, at No Way Out, they lost the titles to the Dudley Boyz. That match saw Billy Gunn stay mainly on the ring apron while nursing an obvious shoulder injury.

The announcers pretended not to notice the injury at the time, despite Gunn competing as if wearing an invisible sling, but Gunn would miss almost the entire year recovering from surgery. Shortly after 'The One' made his return, Road Dogg was released from the company. Years later, Gunn rejoined his partner in TNA as The James Gang (later, the Voodoo Kin Mafia), though they would not win that company’s titles.


The duo would not return to the ring for the company until 2014 when, at January’s Royal Rumble Kickoff Show, they defeated the Rhodes Brothers, regaining the titles (which were unified with the WWE Tag Team Titles in 2009). They thus set a record for the longest time between reigns of any WWE champion (or in this case, champions).

That just leaves Goldust, who made the Outlaws’ feat possible, to set a record of his own. If Goldust has just one goal for 2019, it should be to regain the United States title over 25 years after losing it, an achievement that would not only shatter the New Age Outlaws’ WWE record, but break old-age outlaw Terry Funk’s NWA and WCW record as well.