Last night WWE announced the debut of the 24/7 Championship. Much like the old hardcore championship, it must be defended any place at any time as long as a referee is present to count the pinfall. One of wrestling’s strangest companies Dramatic Dream Team has had it’s own 24/7 championship since June 29th 2000 when Poison Sawada Black became the first DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion. While WWE’s 24/7 title opens up some entertaining avenues one must wonder will it come close to replicating the insanity of the heavymetalweight championship.
Title History
As of this writing, they have been one thousand nine hundred and fifty seven (1957) different title reigns in just nineteen years.
Shinobu and Yuko Miyamoto once traded the title back and forth three hundred and three (303) times on the same show. They would later go on to trade it back and forth sixty times at a later show
Shinobu holds the record for most reigns as champion with two hundred and sixteen (216), just one ahead of Miyamoto with two hundred and fifteen (215). Joey Ryan with forty-three, Danshoku Dino with twenty-two and Cherry with twenty-one round out the top five.
The one-thousandth champion was the title itself
Strangest Winners (With links to videos)
- As previously mentioned the title itself was the thousandth title holder.
- A ladder
- Various Dolls
- A poster for Pro Wrestling WAVE
- Big Japan Pro Wrestling‘s ring truck
- A monkey named Yatchan
- A dog named Cocolo
- A cat named Bunny
- A ringside mat for Ice Ribbon
- A steel chair
- A painting
- Vince McMahon’s hollywood walk of fame star
- Spiderman
- A Bus
- Comedian Ron Funches
- Pair Of Chopsticks
- Invisible Wrestlers
- The Entire Audience from Beyond Wrestling‘s Americanrana 16
- Underwear
Prominent Winners
WWE Superstar Asuka is a five-time champion
IWGP Intercontinental Champion Kota Ibushi
Joshi legend Aja Kong
2019 Joshi wrestler of the year Tsukasa Fujimoto
Lucha Libre legend Rey Mysterio Jr.
Scott Hall, member of the NWO
NXT Champion Johnny Gargano
The Young Bucks
X-Pac, D-Generation X member and one of wrestling’s first “indie darlings”
NXT Women’s Champion Shayna Baszler
Lio Rush, WWE Superstar
Various Japanese Idols
Methods Of Victory
An inanimate object falling on a wrestler
Candice LaRea pinned Joey Ryan in a dream to win the championship
Being tricked into saying “I give up”
Trading it for a cat treat
Buying the title
Getting stuck on the door of a bus and giving up
Twisting a bus’ windshield wiper and being asked to stop
