WWE SmackDown: 5 Interesting facts you didn't know about the show

#2 The WWE Championship has only changed hands five times on the show

The WWE Championship has only changed hands five times in two decades

SmackDown has always been seen as the B-brand in WWE, compared to Monday Night RAW, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that in two decades, the biggest Championship in the company has only changed hands on SmackDown five times.

The first title change came back in 1999 when Vince McMahon was able to defeat Triple H. The second came more than four years later when Brock Lesnar defeated Kurt Angle back in 2003. There was then a gap of more than 14 years before AJ Styles was able to dethrone Jinder Mahal in The United Kingdom in the fall of 2017, less than a year later Daniel Bryan was the man to dethrone AJ Styles before Brock Lesnar shocked the world a few weeks ago.

Brock Lesnar was able to defeat Kofi Kingston in a matter of seconds in the shortest title change in SmackDown history when WWE made their debut on the FOX Network on October 4th. The last two title changes have also all aired live, AJ's Championship win should have aired live, but because it happened in the United Kingdom, there was a delay between the product being presented live and it airing on TV in the United States.