Interesting facts about some WWE titles from over the past year

Modified Apr 13, 2019 03:45 GMT

Some titles are more prestigious with longer reigns while some are like hot potatoes

#1 Samoa Joe is the only champion to walk into WrestleMania 35 and still hold the title to this day

Samoa Joe is somewhat lucky to be holding the US Title at the moment

As mentioned on slide #3, the United States Championship changed hands nine times since the beginning of 2018.

While it has had some shaky booking at various points over the last year and a half, and even before Mania, Samoa Joe captured his first taste of singles gold on the main roster when he won the title on the SmackDown before Fastlane.

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He defended it again on the PPV and accomplished an impressive feat at WrestleMania 35 when he was the only singles champion to walk both in and out of the show as champion.

Brock Lesnar lost to Seth Rollins, Kofi Kingston defeated Daniel Bryan, and Becky Lynch walked out as dual Women's Champion.

In addition, Finn Balor won back the Intercontinental Championship, Buddy Murphy's awesome title reign ended with Tony Nese claiming the Cruiserweight Title and the Revival lost to Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder.

The first-ever Women's Tag Team Champs also dropped their titles to the IIconics in a Fatal Four Way.

And if that wasn't, even though the Usos walked in and out of Mania with their titles, they lost them to the Hardys on the ensuing episode of SmackDown.

For a title that wasn't really that well-regarded due to its booking and placement on PPVs, the fact that Joe was allowed to win it, keep it and still have it is astonishing after learning the fate of the other titles.

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Matt Serocki is a sports journalist from outside of Boston, Massachusetts who has written about sports for a local newspaper, the MetroWest Daily News.

Matt has written about professional wrestling for the past year but has been writing lyrics, short stories and novels in his spare time. He writes around 30-50 articles per month.

During his time on writing for Sportskeeda, Matt has written about a variety of topics including the history of the business as well as about the current stars and product. He follows numerous promotions like the WWE, AEW, ROH, MLW, NJPW, Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and WOW.

Studied Communications with a focus on writing at Framingham State University from 2000-2004.

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