5 WWE Superstars who had to wait the longest for a World Championship

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Jeff Hardy with the World Heavyweight Championship title
Jeff Hardy with the World Heavyweight Championship title

#3 JBL - 3109 days

JBL won the WWE Championship once
JBL won the WWE Championship once

JBL or John Bradshaw Layfield started his WWE career way back in 1996 and found mid-card fame as a part of the Acolytes. He went by the name of just Bradshaw back then and was a beer drinking Texan.

In 2004, though, a drastic gimmick change saw him emerge as John Bradshaw Layfield - Texan Millionaire - and he was duly rewarded for his work as a universally hated heel with a WWE Championship win. It took him over eight years to make it to the top.

Teddy Long snaps when Swerve Strickland's race is brought up HERE

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