10 Wrestling Champions Who Barely Defended Their Title
These wrestling champions didn't put their belts on the line much
2. Brock Lesnar - WWE Universal Championship
When Brock Lesnar returned to WWE in 2012, everyone knew that the former UFC Heavyweight Champion would not be working very often.
Brock had established himself as a record-breaking pay-per-view draw with his once-in-a-blue moon fights and, besides, the punishing WWE schedule was one of the main reasons he had quit the company eight years earlier.
A special occasion, big-match performer, Lesnar usually put on his boots for major supercards and not much else.
This reduced schedule was taken to the extreme after The Beast Incarnate beat Goldberg to bag the Universal Title at WrestleMania 33.
It infamously took three whole months for Lesnar’s first defence, against Samoa Joe at Great Balls of Fire, and by the time 2018 rolled around Brock had only defended it on-screen a further two times.
He defended the title a further three times in 2018, before finally – finally – losing it to Roman Reigns at SummerSlam.
Lesnar did make occasional non-televised appearances at house shows in big markets, where he defended the belt in short, repetitive matches, but as far as what the average fan saw it was seven televised defences in a whopping 503-day reign.
That’s the second-longest Universal Title reign in WWE history.
