5 lesser known facts about the Universal Championship

#1 The title defences

Brock Lesnar's Universal title reign was heavily criticized by WWE universe.

Kevin Owens was the Universal Champion for 188 days. Brock Lesnar was the Universal Champion for 504 days and Roman Reigns has been the champion for more than a month now.

Even though Brock held the title almost thrice as long as Kevin Owens, both of them had the same number of televised defences - seven.

Including WWE Live events, Kevin Owens has 40 defences whereas Brock Lesnar has 13. Also, note that Roman Reigns in his span of one month has had 13 title defences overall.

Between SummerSlam 2016 and 2018, there have been 17 televised Universal championship matches whereas, on SmackdownLive, there have been 26 WWE title matches.