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#3 Bruno Sammartino
An icon in professional wrestling, Bruno Sammartino held the WWWF Championship for 11 years across two reigns. His first reign as champion clocked in at 2803 days, which is still the longest WWE title reign and its unlikely that it will ever be eclipsed.
After leaving the WWWF in 1981, Sammartino learned that Vince McMahon Sr had paid him a lesser amount of the gate than he was entitled to during his entire second title run. Sammartino settled his dispute when Vincent Kennedy McMahon took over and returned as a commentator in 1984. However, Sammartino was upset with the direction Vince McMahon was taking the company and left in 1988. In a later interview, Bruno said that he was upset with the widespread use of steroids in the company at the time:
I’m hoping some wrestling-minded people will come back into the scene and perhaps start back from basics, get some good-looking athletes, get away from the steroid crap and painted faces.
Bruno Sammartino was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.
