6 WWE Records That Were Needlessly Broken

Never underestimate how petty WWE can be.

by John Bills
Randy Orton SummerSlam 2004
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Do records matter in professional wrestling? Records always matter, but in the pre-determined world of pro graps do lengthy reigns and mountainous success carry as much weight as they do in other sports? So much of professional wrestling is about being in the right place at the right time after all.

Despite this reality, the records still purvey our thinking when it comes to analysing professional wrestling. We enter 2017 debating whether or not John Cena will be able to match Ric Flair's record number of world championships, consistently ignorant to how difficult it is to compare eras within that.

Certain wrestling records are destined to stand forever, but over the last few years WWE has gone all out to break a number of long standing bests (and worsts). The reasons for breaking a record are plenty, whether it is out of spite towards a talent since gone from the company or a desperate desire to get talent over or some other reason.

WWE can be extremely childish when it comes to dealing with such things, ignorant to the damage that needlessly breaking records does to titles, performers and perceptions. Here are six records that were needlessly broken by WWE.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.