who is the longest reigning wwe world champion
Bruno Sammartino
title: WWE Championship text: into the promotion in 1963. The inaugural champion was Buddy Rogers, and there have been 50 different official champions overall and 11 vacancies. The longest reigning champion is Bruno Sammartino, who held the title from May 17, 1963 to January 18, 1971, for a total of 2,803 days (7 years, 8 months, and 1 day); Sammartino also holds the record for longest combined reign at 4,040 days. André the Giant is the shortest reigning champion, officially holding the title for 1 minute, 48 seconds. The youngest champion is Brock Lesnar, who won the title at the age of 25, while title: NWA World Welterweight Championship text: the title on April 24, 2016. Akantus is the 63rd overall champion and the 47th person to hold the Championship. Karloff Lagarde and Américo Rocca are tied for the most title reigns, a total of three, while Lagarde holds the record for the longest individual title reign, 2,742 days from 1958 until 1965. Two men have held the title for just one day: Shinjiro Otani and Último Dragón, both held the championship for one day as part of the J-Crown tournament. NWA World Welterweight Championship The NWA World Welterweight Championship () is a professional wrestling championship governed by the National title: WWE Universal Championship text: he has the most reigns at two, his first reign is the longest reign at 504 days (beginning on April 2, 2017 and ending on August 19, 2018), and he has the longest combined reign at + days. Kevin Owens is the youngest champion when he won it at 32 years old, while Goldberg is the oldest when he won it at 50. Brock Lesnar is the current champion in his record-setting second reign. He defeated Braun Strowman to win vacant title at Crown Jewel on November 2, 2018 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The championship had been vacated by Roman title: WWE Championship text: the oldest champion is Vince McMahon, who won it at the age of 54. John Cena holds the record for most reigns with 13. Daniel Bryan is the current champion in his fourth reign. He won the title on November 13, 2018, in St. Louis, Missouri, on "SmackDown Live" by defeating AJ Styles. WWE Championship The WWE 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, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for the Raw brand title: CM Punk text: interfered, Punk would be stripped of the title. Punk originally pinned The Rock to retain after The Shield put Rock through a table while the arena lights were out, leading Vince McMahon to come out and announce that Punk would be stripped of the title, but he instead restarted the match at The Rock's request which Punk lost, ending his reign at 434 days. WWE recognized this reign as the longest world championship reign in WWE of the "modern era" (after 1988) until Universal Champion Brock Lesnar broke that record in June 2018. Punk received a title rematch with Rock