EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT CHAMPIONS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS
76: Age of The Fabulous Moolah when she defeated Ivory for the Women's Championship, making her the oldest person to wear WWE gold.
54: Age of the oldest person ever to hold the WWE Championship. The honor belongs to Mr. McMahon, who defeated his future son-in-law, Triple H, for the title on September 16, 1999.
19: Age of Renee Dupree when he won the World Tag Team Championship in 2003. The barely post-pubescent Parisian remains the youngest Champion in WWE history.
454: Days Honky Tonk Man gyrated with the Intercontinental Championship around his waist during his sole title run. The Pink Cadillac-driving, pompadour-sporting Superstar remains the longest reigning I-C Champ in history.
45: Seconds Andre the Giant's 1988 WWE title run lasted. The Championship was vacated after he gave it to Ted DiBiase, which refs deemed an invalid transaction.
8: Lengths, in seconds of the shortest WWE Championship match. With a kick to the gut and a Jackknife Powerbomb, Diesel defeated then-Champ Bob Backlund in as much time as it takes to, well, count to eight.
1: Number of WWE Championships lost in the mail. The Rock's custom Brahma Bull belt was shipped to WWE HQ, but never reached its destination. We're guessing some roody-poo, candy-assed, sticky- fingered fan nabbed it.
13: World Heavyweight and WWE Championships Triple H has won during his WWE career (so far).
$1,719,677.24: Adjusted for inflation, the value of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Championship belt, built in 1989 for $1 Million. Only Ted DiBiase, Virgil and the Ringmaster (a pre-Attitude Era Stone Cold Steve Austin) were privileged enough to wear the bejeweled belt around their waists.
3: Titles held by formidable faction Evolution at the close of 2003's Armageddon-the most ever for a stable. Triple H, Randy Orton, Batista and Ric Flair carried the World Heavyweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship and World Tag Team Championship, respectively.
2,803: Days that WWE's longest-reigning Champ, Bruno Sammartino, held the WWE title, starting on May 17, 1963, with a win against "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, and ending on January 18, 1971, with a loss to Ivan Koloff.
DID YOU KNOW...?
The only 2 people to hold the NWA and WWE Championships simultaneously are Buddy Rogers and Ric Flair. Ric Flair's entrance theme is titled "Also Sprach Zarathustra." The tune was originally an interpretive tone poem composed by Richard Strauss, inspired by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Custom WWE Championship title belts and beltstraps have been created for only 6 Superstars: "Superstar" Billy Graham (red leather beltstrap); the Ultimate Warrior (white, blue and purple leather beltstraps); Sgt. Slaughter (blue leather beltstrap); Stone Cold Steve Austin ("Smokin' Skull" belt); John Cena (Spinner belt); Edge (Modified "Rated-R Superstar" Spinner belt)
John Cena's modified WWE Championship spinner belt took 90 days to construct and has a total of 4,000 hand-placed stones.
"Superstar" Billy Graham was the first Superstar who cheated to win the WWE title. In his 1977 match against Bruno Sammartino, Graham put his feet against the ropes to score the pin. It's more than 30 years later, and we have yet to find a cure for ref blindness.
The Rockers never won the Tag Team Championship. Their closest taste came when they beat then-Champs the Hart Foundation in a Two-out-of-Three Falls Match on October 30, 1990. The victory was ruled unofficial though, because the top rope broke during the match.