Who Has The Record For Most Wwe Championships?
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If you’re a fan of professional wrestling, you might be wondering who has the record for most WWE Championships. The answer might surprise you!
WWE World Heavyweight Championship
The WWE World Heavyweight Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of two world titles in the WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for the Raw brand as a result of the 2016 WWE draft. The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign.
The Rock
The Rock is a multiple WWE Champion, having held the WWE Championship (now WWE World Heavyweight Championship) eight times and the WCW/World Championship twice. He is the sixth Triple Crown Champion andthe tenth Grand Slam Champion in WWE history.
John Cena
As of 2019, John Cena has the record for the most WWE Championships, with a total of 16. He first won the title in 2005, and has held it a total of 10 times since then. Cena is also a 2-time Royal Rumble winner, and has won many other titles throughout his career.
Triple H
Triple H currently has the record for most WWE Championships, with 13 total reigns. He is a two-time Royal Rumble winner, and has held the WWE Intercontinental Championship five times, the WWE European Championship once, and the World Tag Team Championship four times (twice with Shawn Michaels as D-Generation X, and twice with Stone Cold Steve Austin as The Two-Man Power Trip).
WWE Universal Championship
The WWE Universal Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of two world titles for WWE’s main roster, along with the WWE Championship on the Raw brand. The current champion is “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt, who is in his first reign.
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar is a professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who is currently signed to WWE. He is also the current WWE Universal Champion, a title he has held on two occasions. He is a former NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, and a former UFC Heavyweight Champion. Lesnar has had multiple championship reigns in WWE, being a four-time WWE Champion, a three-time WWE Universal Champion, and a one-time WWE Intercontinental Champion. He is also the longest-reigning Universal Champion in history, having held the title for 504 days (as of May 2020).
Goldberg
Goldberg is a former professional wrestler who is best known for his time with WWE. He is a one-time WWE Universal Champion and a two-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion. He has also held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
The Undertaker
The Undertaker has the record for most WWE Championships with seven. He is a two-time WWE Undisputed Champion, four-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion, and a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion with Kane.
WWE Championship
The WWE Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, currently defended on their Raw brand. It is one of WWE’s original world championships, having been introduced in 1963.
AJ Styles
AJ Styles currently holds the record for most WWE Championships, with a total of six. He first won the title in November of 2017, and has held it for a total of 527 days as of January 2021. He is closely followed by Brock Lesnar, who has won the title four times.
Randy Orton
Randy Orton is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler; his grandfather Bob Orton, Sr., his father “Cowboy” Bob Orton, and his uncle Barry O were all wrestlers. Before being promoted to the main World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) roster, Orton trained in and wrestled for Midwest Championship Wrestling (MCW) and Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), held the former’s Hardcore Championship once.
Orton became a member of the stable Evolution shortly after his WWE debut, which resulted in him winning the Intercontinental Championship three times and the World Tag Team Championship once with Ric Flair. He also held WWE’s World Heavyweight Championship once and the WWE Tag Team Championshiponce with Edge. In 2007, he won the Royal Rumble match and went on to headline WrestleMania 23, where he won the WWE Championship from John Cena.
He has gracefully held many titles in his wrestling career including being a nine-time world champion (a record shared with Ric Flair), a four-time tag team champion and a two-time United States Champion. He has also won numerous other titles such as the 2001 King of The Ring tournament as well as the 2009 Money in The Bank match.
Shinsuke Nakamura
Shinsuke Nakamura is a Japanese professional wrestler who is currently signed to WWE. He is the current WWE Intercontinental Champion in his second reign. He is also a former two-time WWE United States Champion.
Nakamura originally worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he became one of the promotion’s biggest stars and one of its most popular wrestlers, earning the nicknames “Supernova of NJPW” and “The Stone Pitbull”. In Nakamura’s final years with NJPW, he was ranked as one of the top five wrestlers in the world by Tokyo Sports.
After making his debut for WWE in 2016, Nakamura quickly rose to prominence, winning the WWE Championship in his first year with the promotion. He has since gone on to win several other championships, including the Intercontinental Championship (which he currently holds) and the United States Championship (which he has held twice).