List of WWE Cruiserweight Champions (1996–2007)

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Youngest and final champion Hornswoggle

The WWE Cruiserweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and was originally a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) title. It was challenged by cruiserweights at a maximum weight of 225 lbs. During the WWE brand extension, it was the only title to be exclusive to the SmackDown! brand during its entire tenure. There were a total of 36 recognized champions who had a combined 34 official reigns.<ref name="wtcwhistory">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This is a chronological list of wrestlers that held the original WWE Cruiserweight Championship, listed by ring name, with the longest reign being 385 days by Gregory Helms (as well as being the only person to hold this championship for 365 days or more), and the most reigns by Rey Mysterio with 8.

After WCW was purchased by WWE, the inaugural champion was retroactively changed from Shinjiro Otani to Brian Pillman, as WWE recognizes the former WCW Light Heavyweight Championship as part of the original lineage of the Cruiserweight Championship.

Reigns

Names

Name	Years
WCW Cruiserweight Championship	March 20, 1996 – November 18, 2001
WWF Cruiserweight Championship	November 18, 2001 – May 6, 2002
WWE Cruiserweight Championship	May 6, 2002 – September 25, 2007

Reigns

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Combined reigns

Record eight-time champion Rey Mysterio

Helms has the longest reign in WWE Cruiserweight Championship history, holding the championship for 13 consecutive months in 2006 and 2007.

Rank	Champion	No. of reigns	Combined days	Combined days recognized by WWE
1	Template:Sortname	3	532	529
2	Template:Sortname	8	486	476
3	Template:Sortname	6	431
4	Template:Sortname	7	334	321
5	Template:Sortname	3	283	284
6	Template:Sortname	4	231	255
7	Template:Sortname	2	196	195
8	Template:Sortname	4	188	185
9	Template:Sortname	1	147	146
10	Template:Sortname	1	138	135
11	Template:Sortname	1	126	127
12	Template:Sortname	5	113	105
13	Template:Sortname	1	100	101
14	Template:Sortname	2	91	89
15	Template:Sortname	2	75	72
16	Template:Sortname	1	70	69
17	Template:Sortname		65	68
18	Template:Sortname		63	62
19	Template:Sortname		49	48
19	Template:Sortname	2	49	47
21	Template:Sortname	1	48
22	Template:Sortname		46	45
23	Template:Sortname		43	42
24	Template:Sortname		42	41
25	Template:Sortname	2	33	32
26	Template:Sortname	1	29	28
27	Template:Sortname		28	27
	Template:Sortname		28	27
	Template:Sortname		28	27
30	Template:Sortname		22	20
31	Template:Sortname		15	18
32	Template:Sortname		14	13
33	Template:Sortname		12	9
34	Template:Sortname		7	6
34	Template:Sortname	2	7	6
36	Template:Sortname	1	2	1

See also

WCW Light Heavyweight Championship—A previous WCW-sanctioned light-heavyweight championship

References

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External links

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