The Unofficial WWE Championship

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Sat-7-Oct-2017 04:14:14 · 5,103 comments
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I'm sure many of you have heard of the "Unofficial WWE Championship" and there have been many re-iterations of it over the years. For those who aren't familiar:

The Unofficial WWE Championship places the real WWE roster against each other creating an unknown alternate title. Once a champion is crowned, every one-on-one match he competes becomes a championship match and if he loses that match a new champion is crowned. There are no non-title matches in the Unofficial WWE Championship and the current holder is followed at every house show, every Monday Night Raw, every Friday Night Smackdown and every Pay-Per-View until he is defeated.

Only singles matches are considered championship matches but the title can change hands via any decision and with match any stipulation in place. That means the title can be won DQ/Countout/Pinfall/Submission and in any one on one gimmick matches.

Only singles matches are considered championship matches but the title can change hands via any decision and with match any stipulation in place. That means the title can be won DQ/Countout/Pinfall/Submission and in any one on one gimmick matches.

If a champion doesn't "defend" the title for six months, the title is vacated.

The most recent version of this I could find was a guy called Jollo, who updated the Unofficial Title, starting from Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania I in 1985 all the way to 22nd July 2013, where Daniel Bryan was the champion. I looked around the internet, and I couldn't find another record of this from WrestleMania I to any later than 2013, so I decided to just go ahead and continue Jollo's work and update it to present day.

So, without further ado, here's the Unofficial WWE Championship history from 1985 to now.

Title history is on the first sheet and combined reigns is on the second sheet.

Maybe some stat geeks will get a kick out of it like I did.

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Sat-7-Oct-2017 07:28:25 · 151 comments
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Randy Orton has 21 reigns lololol, Batista and Kane both with 16, this was a fun read

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Sat-7-Oct-2017 10:48:49 · 3,230 comments
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That's a crazy amount of work lol. Good on you tho. Would be better if rules applied though - like title doesn't change hands on DQ. That makes no sense to me... title shouldn't change hands on a DQ, as that's not how it works unless stipulated. Makes a lot of heel champs lose the unofficial title when they shouldn't do. But if that's how it was started, makes sense to continue it I guess.

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Sat-7-Oct-2017 15:26:46 · 5,103 comments
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benjawi wrote

That's a crazy amount of work lol. Good on you tho. Would be better if rules applied though - like title doesn't change hands on DQ. That makes no sense to me... title shouldn't change hands on a DQ, as that's not how it works unless stipulated. Makes a lot of heel champs lose the unofficial title when they shouldn't do. But if that's how it was started, makes sense to continue it I guess.

I didn't make up the rules lol. And I only did 2013-2017. That's the way it's always been. When you think about it, DQs and countouts making the champion retain makes even less sense. It's not about what works in real wrestling rules, it's just a case of based purely on singles matches wins or losses, how would it look.

ré_mullé wrote

Randy Orton has 21 reigns lololol, Batista and Kane both with 16, this was a fun read

I think Sheamus has like 12 too.

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Sat-7-Oct-2017 16:06:32 · 555 comments
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What's funny, is that people like John Cena have more actual title reigns, then they do according to this chart.  That's awesome man. Thanks for doing that.  You should come work in my office.  Lol.

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Mon-9-Oct-2017 12:16:55 · 347 comments
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Heath Slater is probably very happy with this list...

I'm kind of amused by the fact that it is so in-line with one of the championships, even after dipped to Heath and Apollo Crews.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

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Mon-9-Oct-2017 12:42:48 · 977 comments
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I like how fake Undertaker ends up with a reign, doing a Kane and holding the unofficial belt for a day.

And Sheamus and Kane become some of the biggest title wins. Funny how it's worked out for some guys.

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Fri-13-Oct-2017 21:27:30 · 1,774 comments
Almost God like? Maybe...

Fake taker won it before real taker...

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