Roman Reigns breaks another WWE title reign record
Records are there to be broken, and despite his lack of title challenges, Roman Reigns continues to break those records for WWE much to the annoyance of the majority of wrestling fans.
Roman Reigns has now surpassed Bruno Sammartino’s second reign in terms of days as champion, with Reigns now at 1,238 days and counting, one more than Sammartino, a reign which ended on April 30, 1977 at the hands of “Superstar” Billy Graham.
Sammartino still leads overall in his two reigns as the longest reigning WWE champion ever with 4,040 days combined.
The next records in sight are at 1,470 days, which is the one held by Bob Backlund, and 1,474, which is held by Hulk Hogan. To reach that, Roman has to survive at least until September with the title.
Colin Vassallo has been editor of Wrestling-Online since 1996
Imagine someone who barely defends his title is allowed to break records like that…
If he’s barely around, it’s not that hard to break records.
In WWE Logic Sting would be a longer reigning champion. He won the european cup march 20th 1994 and only defended it once on november 16th. WCW had their last event on march 26th 2001, which would Sting make the european champion for 2536 days, before WCW vanished.
HA! EAT THAT, ROMAN!
/sarcasm off
It’s not impressive when there are 2 world champions.
I love it when I see that this person or that person surpassed someone else’s title reigns. It’s meaningless. The only thing impressive is that they decided to keep the belt on that person for that long.
^This.^ Roman Reigns isn’t breaking anything. WWE writers are breaking the records as they make their own jobs easier by taking the question of what to do with a title off the table. It’s more lazy than it is impressive. We’re nearing that point (if not already there) with Gunther, Rollins and Ripley too, for that matter. I’m not saying titles should change hands every month, but they’ve really been leaning into the long reigns lately.