I've always heard people saying it, I didn't watch during the Attitude Era so I've always believed these people. But to be frank, I got curious. So I set up multiple Eras for WWE history and put down every champ and how long they held the belt. Then I averaged each era and created my results. *note if they didn't hold the title for a whole day, I counted it as a day so I didn't have to ignore them or count hours :lol:
The Really Old Era as I called it, this includes 1963-1984. Basically, the first WWE champion all the way until Hogan wins his first World title. The average length per recognized reign? 842 days per reign. To put that into perspective it's about twice as long as CM Punk's reign. It's 2 years and about an extra 3 months. That was the average in a 21 year period.
The Golden Era as everyone calls it, this was 1984-1994. I stopped it at 1994 because the next generation was about new stars being born, the reign I stopped on was the Yokozuna run, Bret hart ended to begin his second reign as champ. The average length of a world title run, 225 days. For perspective, Lesnar's run as champ will be just a hair longer.
The New Generation Era is the Wikipedia name for it, it lasted from 1994-1997. I ended it after the Montreal Screwjob, feel free to end it at Wrestlemania. The downward average continues, this era an average champ would hold it for 120 days. This period seems like a dark period in wrestling from at least what I've heard, Diesel had an almost year long run as champ, Bret Hart won it four times for about 490 days.
Then it's obviously the Attitude Era which I started at Survivor Series 1997 and ended at SummerSlam 2002 when Lesnar won the title and the brands split. And if you actually look back, things look bad. 31 title swaps and each reign averaged a length of 55 days. As in not even 2 months. Less than half of the previous era's average. You'd win the title and be expected to drop it after a successful title defense. That was it. Only 12 people held the title during this period, one of these people being Vince and another being Hogan. With people passing it back and forth quite frequently(Rock and Mankind pass it back and forth quite a few times). This is by no means me insulting the era but I mean, damn they passed that title around a lot!
Then I have the Brand Extension Era, 2002-2013. I know the brand extension technically ended in 2012 but there was 2 world titles still. So I'm pretending it continued until Orton won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. There were two belts so I'll look at them both. The World Heavyweight championship, the one people don't even count sometimes, the average length of a run was 75 days. As in 3 weeks longer than the world title in the attitude era. It actually started to go up. Funny we say the titles have been deprestiged in the modern era. But let's look at the WWE championship you say, the title that matters. The belt, Orton won 2 times in one night. The one Daniel Bryan has held for less than a day on 2 different occasions. What's the average? 86 days! As in almost 3 months. Obviously CM Punk pulls it up and Orton/Edge/Daniel Bryan pull the average down but still. That is quite an improvement from 55 days.
Now the modern era. 91 days per champion. That number gets more impressive when you consider what they wanted to happen. Bryan was supposed to drop it to Lesnar, so it would've been 3 champions from TLC 2013-Wrestlemania 2015. An average of over 150. Even with Bryan being injured, Lesnar is "booked" to hold the title till Mania if he does the average length of title reigns will be 121 days. Higher than the New Generation Era.
What am I getting at here you're thinking? WWE is trying to put prestige on the main belt, I don't know how it'll work out but we're on the upside. Hopefully we won't hit the point where a 3 year reign is normal, but we might be hitting a point of time where a 4 month reign is considered average! Granted the pool of numbers is too small, so I'm not saying this is for certain. :shrug: we'll have to wait and see. I just find it funny people say the attitude era was the best yet the belt swapped so quickly, yet if it happens now it's this horrible thing. I know that the IC belt was more "valuable." Maybe I'll do that belt at some point too.
I put all the info in spoilers so it wouldn't be too much all at once, hope the formatting stays legible :P
The Really Old Era as I called it, this includes 1963-1984. Basically, the first WWE champion all the way until Hogan wins his first World title. The average length per recognized reign? 842 days per reign. To put that into perspective it's about twice as long as CM Punk's reign. It's 2 years and about an extra 3 months. That was the average in a 21 year period.
The Golden Era as everyone calls it, this was 1984-1994. I stopped it at 1994 because the next generation was about new stars being born, the reign I stopped on was the Yokozuna run, Bret hart ended to begin his second reign as champ. The average length of a world title run, 225 days. For perspective, Lesnar's run as champ will be just a hair longer.
The New Generation Era is the Wikipedia name for it, it lasted from 1994-1997. I ended it after the Montreal Screwjob, feel free to end it at Wrestlemania. The downward average continues, this era an average champ would hold it for 120 days. This period seems like a dark period in wrestling from at least what I've heard, Diesel had an almost year long run as champ, Bret Hart won it four times for about 490 days.
Then it's obviously the Attitude Era which I started at Survivor Series 1997 and ended at SummerSlam 2002 when Lesnar won the title and the brands split. And if you actually look back, things look bad. 31 title swaps and each reign averaged a length of 55 days. As in not even 2 months. Less than half of the previous era's average. You'd win the title and be expected to drop it after a successful title defense. That was it. Only 12 people held the title during this period, one of these people being Vince and another being Hogan. With people passing it back and forth quite frequently(Rock and Mankind pass it back and forth quite a few times). This is by no means me insulting the era but I mean, damn they passed that title around a lot!
Then I have the Brand Extension Era, 2002-2013. I know the brand extension technically ended in 2012 but there was 2 world titles still. So I'm pretending it continued until Orton won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. There were two belts so I'll look at them both. The World Heavyweight championship, the one people don't even count sometimes, the average length of a run was 75 days. As in 3 weeks longer than the world title in the attitude era. It actually started to go up. Funny we say the titles have been deprestiged in the modern era. But let's look at the WWE championship you say, the title that matters. The belt, Orton won 2 times in one night. The one Daniel Bryan has held for less than a day on 2 different occasions. What's the average? 86 days! As in almost 3 months. Obviously CM Punk pulls it up and Orton/Edge/Daniel Bryan pull the average down but still. That is quite an improvement from 55 days.
Now the modern era. 91 days per champion. That number gets more impressive when you consider what they wanted to happen. Bryan was supposed to drop it to Lesnar, so it would've been 3 champions from TLC 2013-Wrestlemania 2015. An average of over 150. Even with Bryan being injured, Lesnar is "booked" to hold the title till Mania if he does the average length of title reigns will be 121 days. Higher than the New Generation Era.
What am I getting at here you're thinking? WWE is trying to put prestige on the main belt, I don't know how it'll work out but we're on the upside. Hopefully we won't hit the point where a 3 year reign is normal, but we might be hitting a point of time where a 4 month reign is considered average! Granted the pool of numbers is too small, so I'm not saying this is for certain. :shrug: we'll have to wait and see. I just find it funny people say the attitude era was the best yet the belt swapped so quickly, yet if it happens now it's this horrible thing. I know that the IC belt was more "valuable." Maybe I'll do that belt at some point too.
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I put all the info in spoilers so it wouldn't be too much all at once, hope the formatting stays legible :P
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