Ranking EVERY WWE Champion in HISTORY (WWE TIER RANKING)

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Get ready for an epic journey through the history of WWE as Santizap, your favorite wrestling enthusiast, takes on the daunting task of creating the ultimate WWE Champion tier list! In this exhilarating video, Santizap dives deep into the vast archives of wrestling history, meticulously analyzing and ranking every single WWE Champion ever crowned.
From the legendary icons to the unsung heroes, Santizap leaves no stone unturned as he passionately discusses the triumphs, the controversies, and the unforgettable moments that shaped the legacy of these champions. Get ready to relive the glory days and witness the evolution of WWE as Santizap shares his insights, backed by years of dedicated fandom and extensive research.
With his signature blend of humor, charisma, and in-depth knowledge, Santizap provides thought-provoking analysis and expert commentary on each wrestler's reign, evaluating their in-ring skills, mic prowess, championship runs, and overall impact on the industry. Expect heated debates, surprising placements, and some heartfelt praise as this tier list uncovers the definitive rankings of WWE's elite champions.
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[@iamsyxx]

Bro why do people keep forgetting when Bryan's first WWE Championship reign was? It wasn't WM 30, it was Summerslam 2013 when he beat Cena and then immediately got cashed in on by Orton

[@tommysmith4577]

Recently got back into wwe and thought I would start my journey to catching up by the start of the punk over era. Literally watched SS 2013 last night and was confused at this vid for that bit. Enjoyed the rest tho :)

[@Blood-zz2kt]

I mean nothing to really say about the run so

[@abuzzgrain124]

A fellow NASCAR fan 🤩

[@SonnyCruzKinshasa]

Bryan also had four reigns as wwe champion not two

[@peterwilkins507]

​@@SonnyCruzKinshasa 3**

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart1293]

"The Only reason JBL was WWE Champion for a year was because Triple H didn't want to work Tuesday's!"- Paul Heyman.

[@programerDragan]

Thank you for putting Punk at the top, people who watched WWE watched it mostly because of his historic reign

[@mrmoviemanic1]

Kind of disagree, I think Cena was still the main reason and let’s be honest it wasn’t as many people at that stage.

[@user-lq2hy5lx2g]

But Roman reigns is best world champion in wwe history

[@aaronhernandez4445]

A man that defends the title every 3 months? Cm punk 434 days reign was better because he defended the title almost every single week?​@user-lq2hy5lx2g

[@Kudomtanawat]

I stopped because of his first reign and while in his iconic I was on hiatus.

[@prince_sach50]

​@user-lq2hy5lx2g No. BRUNO SANMARTINO IS

[@MrLonestarGamer]

Can we get a tier list for World Heavyweight champions?

[@spinningwheel7635]

No. Cope.

[@aventus3256]

@@spinningwheel7635 yeah cope

[@SoftcoreStoner]

I agree! That Triple H/Batista reign 2004/05 was the best reign of my lifetime! I was 9 years old lol.

[@endorama0]

Triple H, Batista, Randy Orton, Undertaker, TIER S Khali, Rollins, TIER D

[@SoftcoreStoner]

@@endorama0 Rollins is good but wrestling just hit different back then. Not fair to rank him with Khali LOL

[@landoholley1603]

The Punk take I 100% agree with

[@ajitdesigan]

I liked that you had a separate vintage category. But I would put Bruno sammartino title reign into the GOAT category because of the record number of soldouts at MSG and when he lost the title during his first reign the crowd went dead silent and Ivan koloff just ran back to the locker room without celebrating. It was that imapctful.

[@user-lq2hy5lx2g]

I will say.... 3 best world champion (wwe+universal+ world heavyweight are) Roman, brauno and hulk hogan

[@EliasRoy]

@@user-lq2hy5lx2g 😂😂😂😂

[@rjb8454]

I like Jeff… but he held the title for just over a month and lost it in his first defence. Winning was a feel good moment but that’s it. Also, Edge’s reigns were short but he had an iconic ruthless aggression rivalry with Cena, and his first win was the inaugural MITB cash in. He had great matches throughout his reigns, including the TLC with Cena and in his last reign he lost/put over Hardy. IMO their tiers need to be swapped.

[@erickroddy5786]

Mmchntnhy g

[@erickroddy5786]

Mm uhh h

[@erickroddy5786]

Cnmnr

[@joshuaneobond]

I agree

[@prajwal.naladeega]

Agreeeddd

[@linkvagar2336]

JBL is one of the best heel champions post 2000. Totally agree with his reign being in the great category.

[@motivation_entertainment-value]

Triple H

[@SoftcoreStoner]

@@motivation_entertainment-value I think Triple H had his best reigns as WHC.

[@SoftcoreStoner]

I would put JBL's in the g.o.a.t. I don't think anyone had a character/reign quite as unique as him.

[@crunchychunkypowdery5101]

I love the idea of the "too vintage" category so we can include all of the champions without trying to rate them on todays standards because most of those matches nobody will find as appealing as the ones in the modern era at least from the 80s on.

[@tyleryoung754]

Triple H has to be goat especially due to his runs in the late 90s to early 2000s. That heel triple H was so good and in addition to his other runs later in the 2000s, goat for sure

[@dr.ahmedalabany3899]

Absolutely yeeeeees

[@sitka6414]

If anything it should be further proof that punk had a goat title reign because it was so iconic despite the fact that WWE didn’t trust him to main event

[@SunshineStateCoasters]

Looking back I actually liked Jinder’s run as well. He looked like a champion!

[@michaelpinggera1177]

He was an awesome heel and everyone loved to hate him

[@SunshineStateCoasters]

@@michaelpinggera1177 now that one promo on Nakamura was inheriting was racist and never should’ve happened.

[@htxthewild5553]

​@@michaelpinggera1177 Jinder was a boring champion. All he had was his physique

[@sirnetflix7162]

Not at all. He was booked like a straight jobber and slingshotted into a wwe title run just to grab Indian viewers which didn't even really work at all

[@idkelijah]

@@htxthewild5553 he’s like Gunther all Gunther does is chops and powerbombs

[@wesleylockhart486]

What about Big E or Bobby Lashley?

[@migdaliadejesus]

@@r10magical76 he ranked Kofi

[@peterwilkins507]

​@@r10magical76 Shut up about race

[@Meastroooo]

He didnt make the ranking so get mad at the creator of the format

[@AndreRosado-sc4kh]

​@@r10magical76 the rock is black

[@r10magical76]

@@AndreRosado-sc4kh yah if he didnt they will call him out

[@josegarza4202]

I don’t see a scenario where you could ever say Jeff Hardy’s 2008 WWE Title run is better than Eddie Guerrero’s 2004 run. That’s blasphemy.

[@jesseandrews6029]

Kane's 24hr title reign was essential in creating the remaining 98 PPV Main event scene. And started the Brothers being in cahoots.

[@coltonwilkie241]

Jinder honestly should've been a face champion. He's literally a perfect underdog, a guy who's spent a career losing every match finally starts overcoming the odds and winning and finally becomes a world champion. The fact that Jinder has never been a face is shocking to me. He seems like he can really pull it off.

[@theprodigy9617]

Adam b fan

[@silentlytriggered9001]

@@demontitan8760 of course they would. The face of wwe have to put up a great promo usually.

[@Bestumpire]

@@demontitan8760 what non perfect bro southern part of india speaks english alot it's just nepotism of anoa i family that's why he is not face nothing else

[@ozzymar2869]

I get that people don’t like Bret for everything after the screw job but he’s a top 10 in ring wrestler good promo and when you think winged eagle it’s hard not to picture him with the belt. Should have been top tier on this list

[@Face0fFear]

Not gonna lie, this list is damn near perfect

[@Emi.67]

@PeterKOSZ Yea it is

[@stillwaiting6037]

I would put jinder in the lowest tier but outside of that it's good

[@JMANTheCaptain]

I 100% agree on your take on Jinder

[@DanielDeLeon69]

You Should Do Some More Wrestling Tier Lists!😀

[@drawbackrammy]

The same argument you can make about CM Punk being a champion is the same argument you can make for Bret Hart. Dude was a fighting champion. He didn’t hold the title for as long as punk but he won back the title many times and had classic battles while champion.

[@mauricioramirez5948]

While I agree the first few Champions are hard to put in a category since you didn't see them, you can't not put Sammartino on the GOAT status.

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

Right the longest single title reign in history and his two title reigns makes him have the longest combined title reigns in history. They actually talk about him a lot right now

[@johnstrika9170]

Not just him. While Superstar's reign wasn't as long as Bruno,Pedro or Backlund, Superstar is, arguably, the most influential wrestler of all time. There is no Hogan, Steiner, Rude etc etc etc without Superstar. Dusty Rhodes, literally and admittedly, copied alot of his catch phrases. I was also present for all 20 of his defenses at MSG and he was getting cheered as a heel. So, you can consider him, probably, the first "tweener".This dude uses the "I didn't see them" excuse way too much, especially in this day and age when nearly everything can be found. To me, it's laziness not doing that research.

[@The_RealBigOunce]

I might be the only person who thinks this but I loved when they put the strap on jinder it was someone from left field and it was a new person getting and chance which really made me enjoy it however it did run long he probably should have dropped it back to randy or to shin

[@stillwaiting6037]

I personally never understood this point like how is Jinder a breath of fresh air he had an average anti American heel character with nothing special and before jinder we had jon moxley AJ styles and bray Wyatt who all won the world champion for the first time in their careers so how is Jinder a breath of fresh air

[@dcrggreensheep]

Nah you aint alone

[@kegger4me42]

1 final point about Cm Punks WWE Title run .. Cm punk told management he was dropping the belt to Rock because he was injured for months upon months and couldn’t do it anymore. Management didn’t tell Punk he was dropping the belt .. had he not been injured Punk could have had a reign as long as Romans for all we know.

[@pradyumnpurohit5597]

Is that true? Cause he still wrestled at elimination chamber and Weestlemaina

[@kegger4me42]

@@pradyumnpurohit5597 That doesn’t mean he wasn’t injured .. everybody knows Ryback injured him cause he’s a clumsy ass worker .. just because he wrestled a match or 2 after he dropped the belt doesn’t mean he didn’t leave for that reason. Punk has talked about this in interviews .. he was injured and he just wanted to be done and heal up.

[@prajwal.naladeega]

I don’t think so. He wanted to main event wrestlemania and given that he competed in elimination chamber and wrestlemania in ‘13, he wouldn’t want to drop right before mania. I think it was script that made us feel somewhat okay that punk himself wanted to drop

[@kegger4me42]

@@prajwal.naladeega Then why in interviews did Punk say he was injured from Ryback and forced to work through the injury and he just wanted to drop the belt so he could recover? Are you saying Punk is lying?

[@AbdulrahmanOstaz]

good list. you should take a look back on dean ambrose’s reign. He cashed in on the same night he won mitb. He defeated seth rollins multiple times on raw and smackdown retaining the title. He won the shield triple threat vs roman and seth at battleground by pinning roman. He defeated dolph ziggler at summerslam. He had more title defenses on smackdown until he lost it to aj styles. I see why you put it at okay but i’d personally put it at good

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart1293]

He's good

[@Sirduckducks]

I'm still mad over Rey Mysterio's episode long run

[@isakleandervlog5921]

Ranking Every World Heavyweight Champion Next plssssss🙏🏼🙏🏼 Love your vid bdw👌🏼

[@lukebartlett1935]

Good stuff man

[@jayy2clutchh]

My new favorite wrestling KZbinr

[@5StarD12]

Wasn't Jeff on the WWE Champion for like 3 weeks or am I losing my mind

[@mackapacka77]

WWE website says 41 days

[@5StarD12]

@mackapacka77 ok I see, he won it towards the beginning of December and lost it towards the end of January

[@quintonjones1558]

Kurt Angle borders GOAT champions in my opinion. He literally beat every top guy in his rookie run. Successful defenses against: Rock, Austin, Taker, HHH, Jericho, Kane, Rikishi and others sometimes defending on Raw and Smackdown in the same week. Gotta put some more respect on my man’s name.

[@yglystrailmix]

Jeff had the title for a month… jinder run was fun

[@aznbeast781]

Damn u must be high af.... putting Jericho, Edge, Eddie, AJ, HBK in those tiers is crazy... they should be in higher tiers

[@zanethind]

Bruno deserves the GOAT spot that man carried the company for 4 damn years! Same with Bob Backlund. Bob held that for over a thousand days as well

[@callmehazza9]

Thank you for doing Jeff Hardy justice.

[@Shane3125]

Doesn't really deserve to be in the 'good' ranking though. His title reign lasted like a month.

[@krklorenzo2296]

All on fire, I definitely just disagreed on Triple H one, for me He is a GOAT on both belts, numerous title defenses on big superstars, He held it well and promotes it well. Good job Santi!

[@endefisto123]

I can agree with this list 90% but my biggest pet peeve is HHH and HBK not being in the Goat category. Yes Michales had backstage influence but he is still one of the greatest of all time and his run was amazing as well. I believe both deserve to be in GOAT.

[@SpaceGhost92]

100% agreed. No defense for it at all

[@kasunmahesh1862]

Seth's run as the WWE Champion in 2015, absolutely one of the most underrated one. He was so good at it and put some of the best matches of the year. Superstar of the year and the heist of the century. He was such a great worker for WWE that year.

[@incrediblewrestling]

Santi didn't even have think to put Roman Reigns under Goat category😂 he acknowledges Tribal Chief ☝️

[@raffaelefasano1601]

Lesnar vs Angle, ruthless aggression era...my god, what a feud.

[@annonnymos5329]

As WWE champion, I dont think ill put Roman as GOAT but Universal Champion I would unless the unified titles count

[@spandanchatterjee1871]

Jinder Mahal was the best heel of this generation. They killed his gimmick

[@peggytheveteran4968]

😂😂😂

[@Thechosenskywalker]

Yikes

[@stillwaiting6037]

His gimmick deserved to be killed

[@SohamBhattacharya3105]

HBK won his last championship (the big old World Heavyweight belt) in 2002/03 at Survior Series in the first ever Elimination Chamber match, although it was a brief run as champion. He didn't want to hold titles during his second run.

[@da_hit_stick]

Found you on tiktok and started watching the twitch. First YT comment, pickles

[@TotallyNotMark]

CM Punks run from Champion of the People to Delusional maniac that thinks he’s a God vs the Rock is one of my favourite runs in the history of the WWE Championship. That line he delivered to the Rock: “Understand that when you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God.” Up there as one of my favourite promos Punk has ever delivered. No matter what stage he was put on, he always over delivered. Man carried that Rock rematch at Elimination Chamber too.

[@cjq23]

Santi is my favourite WWE Champion

[@mikeforde2646]

I actually liked jinder's run. He was something different, he put in the work. His music and his overall look was good. Wish they gave him another run. Because I didn't mind it.

[@stillwaiting6037]

Wwe give jinder the wwe championship just to increase the Indian viewership and he failed at that so do you really think that they're going to give him another chance

[@mikeforde2646]

@still waiting yeah I know that's why they have him the title. But for me and some other people in the comments liked, actually liked his title run and didn't think it was as bad as some people think. Obviously you disagree.... and besides his title reign was six years ago. They could've made some tweeks to his gimmick slightly to improve it and give him another run. (Not long after he lost it) and stuck arohnd in the title picture for abit longer, for like a year or two (I know he had injuries too) But like I said, it was six years ago and most likely won't get another run. Sad as to what could've been.

[@stillwaiting6037]

@@mikeforde2646 what did he do to deserve another world title run exactly? His matches were god awful and it didn't feel like he put any effort into them his promos were average and some of his segments were trash like the laughing at Nakamura segment

[@mikeforde2646]

@still waiting like I said some people actually liked his title run. I'm not going back and fourth with this. I personally didn't think he was that bad. I feel the promos with shinsuke are hard to do anyway, because of his lack of english, again that's my opinion. But yeah if you didn't like his title run, that's fair enough

[@Bestumpire]

@@stillwaiting6037 yes he because he is indian but not from samoan family. roman reigns run is similar to him ( it doesn't mean roman is bad at all) it's just he also got 1000 day reign with the likes of usos and solo

[@tariqdogg5944]

John Cena is my all time favorite wrestler

[@nygclampz]

i didn’t think opinions could be wrong until i seen jinder in the okay category

[@jaidnfnfasnbcc4249]

The way Kofi lost the belt killed the entire run for me personally. It was such a slap in the face

[@marcuspowell4343]

No bro you put Jinder in the right place 🔥

[@tkOzeki]

I’m glad Jinder Mahal got some respect. He did the job they needed him to do. he worked the heel gimmick properly in the US, and was a good face in India.

[@michaelpinggera1177]

So, okay, the-Undertaker decission just sends you to hell. He was an awesome wwe-champion in the 90s

[@incrediblewrestling]

Wyatt's WWE title win was only to set up his match with Orton at WrestleMania 33.

[@delaneymcdonell5774]

I think Bret Hart belongs in GOAT personally but I can understand why he is where he is. Also I just am not a fan of Roman’s run at the moment. I think maybe down the line I Will appreciate it more, but not right now.

[@vadertheomega8549]

This is pretty good. Only one thing... you forgot THE PICKLES!

[@jefferyadams6514]

I think your list is spot on

[@JayJenkins-vw9eu]

I’ll put Roman at goat he touched 1,000 days

[@nate1066pollock]

Vince McMahon's WWE Championship reign was leagues better than his ECW Championship reign

[@eli1220]

Had to make sure cm punk was considered a goat 🙏🏾

[@jaybrown631]

Edge in okay is crazy

[@OsvaldoHighlights]

How the hell did I skip straight to Jinder Mahal's part? 😂

[@zavkurtzer4022]

I don’t watch wwe anymore I did when cena was champ but I will say this cena was the goat but Roman reigns has had the belt so long and the bloodline storyline from what I’ve seen on tik tok and when I do check in is so good there’s no way not to have Roman as the greatest of all time

[@camyreon187em3]

Jbl was the definition of a heel back then 😭

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart1293]

That's because he was a heel in real life

[@akhilnambiar2496]

I would have chewed you santi if you've put Jinder into terrible category, He was a heel champion, he respected the championship, people wanted him to lose the championship at any cost, these all made the championship more prestigious.

[@stillwaiting6037]

It's confirmed Jinder's fans don't know anything about wrestling like how did Jinder make the wwe championship prestigious he only main evented 1 ppv during his run

[@stillwaiting6037]

And how would making a guy that was a jobber 1 month ago into a world champion increase the Belt's prestige and if Jinder actually tried why were his matches absolutely horrible

[@akhilnambiar2496]

@@stillwaiting6037 why not a jobber can be a champion one day. Dolph Ziggler, Edge, Jeff Hardy, Drew McIntyre were jobbers as well. People say Matches were horrible due to the Singh brothers' interference. But the same people had no problem when Rollins used Authority and Roman Used Bloodline when they were champs.

[@stillwaiting6037]

@@akhilnambiar2496 first all the names you name dropped were build up by wwe before getting their chances but Jinder lost to mojo at WrestleMania 1 month before he became a world champion

[@stillwaiting6037]

@@akhilnambiar2496 and second Jinder matches didn't suck because of the sin brothers interference they sucked because they were too slow full of rest holds and no big spots to remember them for

[@Kobe24brady12]

putting mankind in "bad" is something

[@Jay-dm5oz]

You should do world heavyweight champion or name each world heavyweight champion would be a great video

[@irish_d-rock2144]

Where do you rate pickles? Love your content!

[@DonOctavioSanchez]

Bruno Sammartino should've been in the GOAT

[@michaelpinggera1177]

Jinder's character was good at that time to have a feud with

[@stillwaiting6037]

An average anti American heel character that we saw millions of times before

[@savanpatel847]

bret hart in anything less than GOAT is hilarious

[@emilelouis1781]

When Backlund lost it in the Camel clutch.. A finger from a riot.

[@WukisGGK]

To be fair, just like Drew, Diesel also had no fans while he was WWE Champion.

[@Vasp3r_Pulse]

Eddie should be higher he literally defended the title with everything his title defenses were amazing especially that match vs jbl he atleast should be in good

[@veganpenguin9857]

Jbl’s run was great, underrated heel, it was crazy when I was 9 years old and hearing him call Rey mysterio a “stupid little Mexican” at ecw one night stand

[@gormlessminger5918]

some of these ranks are criminal

[@michaelpinggera1177]

Angle is glimpsing a little bit in the goat-category

[@sirnetflix7162]

RVD didn't smoke anything. He was fined for possession of marijuana, not driving under the influence. A common misconception. Besides that, he had prescriptions for the pills he had while Sabu did not. Interestingly, Sabu offered to take the fall for RVD considering his position in the company relative to Sabu's, but Rob refused to throw him under the bus and took partial blame regardless.

[@weinnerbananaman5510]

where is bigE

[@Keatn_465]

I can’t believe edge and jinder mahall are in the same category

[@user-cf1xb5dc2i]

This video makes me wish we could share pickles together while watching Netflix

[@sabath15]

I might be stoned but I realized halfway through the video you are listing everyone alphabetical order.

[@mr.p7609]

Can we get tier list for world heavyweight champions ?

[@kbwriter215]

JBL in great was the right call!

[@marcuspowell4343]

I think JBL was great, I absolutely loved it.

[@jamesmeachin3941]

Triple H in 1999-2000 gets GOAT status.

[@storm4life]

The fact that you put Jinder Mahal over Macho Man is a crime

[@felixflesch9355]

Please make one for world heavyweight Champions

[@Jaxsonacr]

Santi you forgot about that one guy that held the title for like an hour… I think his name was pickles

[@TheJuiceAlert]

The Miz’s title run was good. What is wrong with him defending it vs Jerry The King Lawler? 😂

[@kevitoprimo]

Hhh was the best heel in the attitude era besides Vince McMahon WHILE BEING WWF CHAMP of course he's goat status!

[@supermarroman9120]

If Bruno wasn’t in too vintage we all knew where he was going

[@claytonjames1558]

RIP but Eddie winning the title was the best and worst thing he ever did. Culmination was a great moment but he put so much pressure on himself to go out there as champion and to actual be champion that I could comfortably say it was a contributing factor in his death. RIP one of the best.

[@aaron29924]

I think punk goes down one, jinder goes down one, and taker up one and it looks good!

[@josephsimon0605]

For me Cena, Orton, Edge, Triple H, Stone Cold and The Rock would be the only goat status, and Eddie being Eddie I would have him on great, and how can you have Kofi Mania so low?! Criminal, I think Kofi Kingston should be in the same tier as Daniel Bryan.

[@GameTesterDev]

Batista's reign was garbage... He only held the title twice... He beat Orton for it and then immediately got sidelined with a biceps injury the exact same night and then won it from Cena at Elimination Chamber 2010 and then only had like 1 non title matches between EC and Mania where he lost it...

[@Surv1vor1993]

Fun Fact: Bret Hart won his first WWE title in my hometown of Saskatoon, about 4 months before I was born

[@Surv1vor1993]

Another Fun Fact, Bray Wyatt won his only WWE Championship on my birthday (February 12)

[@skiitz4487]

Tier list of Universal Champions

[@JarMadeIt]

Great list. However AJ styles is no doubt a great run. Both were phenomenal

[@captaincurtis9829]

I think he forgot about AJ’s second reign. That second one was fantastic.

[@ItsThaKing]

CM PUNK THE GOAT (IN WWE)