BatistaWasRight Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 I was thinking about how people complained about Dean Ambrose's lack of title defenses during his reign, so I began to compile title defense data from www.profightdb.com. Ignoring the initial title win, dark matches, "MSG shows," and the title loss, I was able to determine that these are the WWE U.S. champions that have had the most defenses for individual reigns: Dean Ambrose, 14 defenses Antonio Cesaro, 13 defenses Kofi Kingston, 9 defenses Miz, 6 defenses Dolph Ziggler, 5 defenses In other words, far from having too few title defenses, he actually has the most of any WWE U.S. champion. They're just spaced out over a longer time period. I have the data in a spreadsheet, if anyone wants to see... I've got to go to something, but I'll likely post everything on GoogleDocs later on just in case anyone is curious. If anyone has suggestions on a better document storage tool, let me know! Update - Here is the link for the spreadsheet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Never actually tried counting, but I would've thought Cesaro would've had more with his title reign being about 9 months or so as I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offspring515 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Cesaro was forever more jobbing non title matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Cesaro was forever more jobbing non title matches. Yeah but I recall he was beating Santino and Miz for stretches on end as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Wait, are you saying MVP had the US belt for nearly a year and had less than 4 defenses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatistaWasRight Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 I counted four: Ric Flair, Matt Hardy, Kane, Rey Mysterio This is subject to ProFightDB.com missing defenses, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domino_Not_Deuce Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I counted four: Ric Flair, Matt Hardy, Kane, Rey Mysterio This is subject to ProFightDB.com missing defenses, of course. He had 3 matches with Benoit on PPV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StretchMediatedHypertrophy Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I counted four: Ric Flair, Matt Hardy, Kane, Rey Mysterio This is subject to ProFightDB.com missing defenses, of course. He had 3 matches with Benoit on PPV. But he wasn't the champion for two of those matches, and lost? MVP had a heart condition during much of his title reign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newb82 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Yeah, Benoit was champion for those matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domino_Not_Deuce Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 D'oh, I thought MVP was champ throughout all of 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Before clicking on the topic, the first wrestler came to mind was Eddie Guerrero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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