11 Wrestlers Who Waited The Longest To Win A World Title - Triple H! Shawn Michaels! Edge! Andre The Giant?!
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🗓️ 12 June 2020
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Eat your heart out, Bray Wyatt. These are 11 wrestlers who waited the longest to win a world title in WWE.
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Winning a world championship even in a promotion like |
| 0:33.6 | WWE should be treated like a big big deal that |
| 0:37.1 | wrestlers have to build up to. |
| 0:39.2 | Today we're gonna look back at the performers for whom ultimate |
| 0:42.2 | WWE success took the longest. |
| 0:44.8 | rankings are based between the time of the wrestlers officially recognized debut and the date of their |
| 0:50.4 | first world title in, for example. We have Rick Flair who made a couple of |
| 0:55.0 | WWE appearances in 1976, |
| 0:58.0 | but he isn't on our list because his officially recognized debut was in 1991. |
| 1:03.2 | Likewise, guys like Mick Foley and AJ Styles, who had try-out matches and job spots |
| 1:08.1 | before their proper arrivals, aren't in here either. |
| 1:11.3 | And finally, the likes of Pedro Morales are left out because despite long |
| 1:15.5 | waits for a WWE world title they spent most of those years away from the promotion |
| 1:20.9 | than they did with it. |
| 1:23.0 | And the key word there is more, |
| 1:25.0 | because this will come into play later on. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm Andy for what culture wrestling, |
| 1:29.4 | and here are the 11 wrestlers who waited the longest to win a world title. |
| 1:34.8 | Number 11, Triple H, 1, pessimistic days. |
| 1:40.6 | Before he became a 14-time world champion, Triple Age's career was relatively humble. |
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