5 Youngest WWE Champions in history

1. Randy Orton

Orton was the youngest Champion at twenty-four

While Orton is in the top five youngest WWE Champions, he is, in fact, the youngest World Heavyweight Champion. Orton faced off against Chris Benoit in 2004 at SummerSlam, winning the Championship at just twenty-four years old.

This lead to Evolution turning on the youngster and Orton would lose the World Heavyweight Championship to Triple H twenty-eight days later. Orton wouldn’t win the WWE Championship until 2007 at twenty-seven, which still counted amongst the youngest of Champions. The irony in all of this was that Orton was the last World Heavyweight Champion when the Championship was retired in 2013.