WWE Extreme Rules 2016: 5 Stats and Facts You Should Know

Numbers prefer Roman Reigns

AJ has to face the numbers

The WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight championship (Now, that both are unified) have been defended on 12 separate occasions at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view with the first title defense coming from Randy Orton in 2009 and the last by Seth Rollins in 2015.

In between these two, there has been a total of 12 and on seven occasions, the champion retained the championship. That is, nearly 70 percent of the numbers favor Reigns to retain the title. The list of champions who successfully defended the title include names like John Cena , Jack Swagger, Sheamus, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan and Seth Rollins. When the champions who lost the title include names like Edge, Randy Orton, Jeff Hardy, and the Miz, who we will look into next.