The WWE has a long and storied history and with that comes a lot of championships, and even more memorable and historic runs as champions. In this article, we are going to take a look at the longest WWE title reigns by championship using WWE’s own recognised days as champion as a metric.
Longest WWE Title Reigns – Pro Wrestling Records
Active Championships
- WWE Championship/Undisputed Championship/WWF Championship/WWWF Championship – Bruno Sammartino 2,803 days
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- Universal Championship – Roman Reigns *current champion* 806+ days
- WWE Raw Tag Team Championship/WWE Tag Team Championship – The New Day 483 days
- WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship – The Usos *current champions* 484+ days
- WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship – The Kabuki Warriors 180 days
- Raw Women’s Championship/WWE Women’s Championship – Becky Lynch 398 days
- United States Championship (traces back to the NWA/WCW) – Lex Luger 523 days
- SmackDown Women’s Championship – Bayley 379 days
- Intercontinental Championship – The Honky Tonk Man – 454 days
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- NXT Championship – Adam Cole 403 days
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- NXT North American Championship – Velveteen Dream 209 days
- NXT Tag Team Championship – The Ascension 343 days
- NXT Women’s Championship – Asuka 522 days
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- NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship – Io Shirai & Zoey Stark 111 days
Defunct Championships
- WWF International Heavyweight Championship – Antonio Rocca 1,554 days
- WWWF United States Heavyweight Championship – Bobo Brazil 1,837 days
- WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship – Tatsumi Fujinami 789 days
- WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship – Antonio Inoki 3,780 days
- WWF North American Championship – Seiji Sakaguchi 532 days
- WWF Canadian Championship – Dino Bravo 157 days roughly
- Million Dollar Championship – Ted DiBiase 905 days
- WWE European Championship – The British Bulldog 205 days
- WWF Light Heavyweight Championship – Villano 3 826 days (not recognised by WWE) /TAKA Michinoku 314 days
- WWE Cruiserweight Championship/WCW Cruiserweight Championship – Gregory Helmes 384 days
- WCW World Heavyweight Championship – Hulk Hogan 469 days
- World Heavyweight Championship – Batista 282 days
- ECW Championship – Shane Douglas 406 days
- NXT Cruiserweight Championship – JD McDonagh 438 days
- NXT UK Championship – Gunther 870 days
- NXT UK Heritage Cup – Noam Dar 259 days
- NWA World Tag Team Championship – Antonio Rocca & Miguel Perez 1500+ days
- WWF United States Championship – The Fabulous Kangaroos 409 days
- WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship – The Mongols 368 days
- World Tag Team Championship/WWE Tag Team Championship/WWF Tag Team Championship – Demolition 478 days
- WCW Tag Team Championship – Doom 281 days
- NXT UK Tag Team Championship – Gallus 497 days
- WWE Women’s Championship (traces back to the NWA World Women’s Championship) – The Fabulous Moolah 10,170 days
- WWE Divas Championship – Nikki Bella 301 days
- NXT UK Women’s Championship – Kay Lee Ray 649 days
- WWF Women’s Tag Team Championship – The Glamour Girls 906 days
- WWE Hardcore Championship – Big Boss Man 97 days
- WWE 24/7 Championship – Reginald 112 days
There you have it. The list of the longest WWE titles reigns by championship for every recognised title in WWE history.
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