10 Wrestling Champions Who Barely Defended Their Title
These wrestling champions didn't put their belts on the line much
3. WALTER - WWE NXT UK Championship
There were only five different titleholders in the almost six-year history of the NXT United Kingdom Championship.
Of the five, WALTER is the man who held the title the longest, with his gargantuan reign clocking in at 870 days.
The Ring General beat Pete Dunne to win it at 2019’s NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn and dropped it to Ilja Dragunov at NXT TakeOver 36 in August of 2021.
So, what exactly did the angry Austrian do with the title in the two-plus years he held it?
The man now going by Gunther defended the title just nine times between episodes of NXT and NXT UK TV and TakeOver events.
However, this does come with some caveats.
A big chunk of WALTER’s reign took place during the global pandemic and, to be fair, his matches carried with them the big fight feel and were usually pretty good, especially his five-star war with Dragunov on the October 29, 2020, edition of NXT UK.
Without the restrictions of lockdowns and such, Gunther was free to defend his Intercontinental Title a lot more regularly, restoring that belt’s prestige significantly during his outstanding 666-day reign.
