Talk:List of WWE United States Champions

Patrick Mulligan
Where's the confirmation he won the u.s title?
 * Ummm there is no confirmation because there is no such wrestler in WWE---Paulley

Chris Benoit
In the light of the tragedy surrounding him, WWE.com has removed all title links to Benoit. This means that all 5 references to his reigns are dead links. TJ Spyke 02:10, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

We'll just have to link to the actual title history page on WWE.com, then. The last time I checked, the links were removed but his name still appeared in the title history. Gavyn Sykes 02:11, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Best of # Series
I don't know if anyone else has realized this, but there are quite a few Best of a Series to crown the United States Champion, any sense in mentioning specifics on the page? When I say specifics, I mean when matches took place, who won, that good stuff.

Actually, never mind, there are only two, it seems. Sorry, I have so many DVDs that I get confused.--Lord Dagon (talk) 16:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Undisputed United States Championship
Wasn't the title referred to as the Undisputed United States Championship for a short time? I specifically remember No Way Out 2006 mentioning this when Sharmelle was talking about Booker T before his match with Chris Benoit began. Is it worth mentioning? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lord Dagon (talk • contribs) 16:07, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Lineage
Under the NWA/WCW United States Championship titleholders on Wrestling-Titles.com, they have it listed that the title was renamed the WWE United States Championship. But when you click on that link takes you to a page makes it look like the current WWE United States Championship was resurrected from the WWWF United States Championship from the 1970s. That is simply not the case. So, if anyone updates the WWE United States Championship page on Wrestling-Titles.com, know that you are incorrect. The WWE United States Championship gets it's lineage from the NWA and WCW, not the WWWF --Dilk85
 * Hmm. You're right. The reference is completely wrong. It might be a good idea to remove that altogether, but we should wait for further opinions. Gavyn Sykes (talk) 03:51, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

The old WWWF US Championship was technically called the WWWF USA Heavyweight Championship. So it could be deemed a completely seperate Title from the current WWE United States Championship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.113.209.182 (talk) 18:37, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Steve Austin Losing In Eight Seconds
There is no citation stating that Austin lost to Duggan in 27 seconds. They said at Fall Brawl 1994 that it was eight seconds. I do believe it was eight seconds rather than 27. Mr. C.C. (talk) 09:30, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * WWE also claims King Kong Bundy beat SD Jones in 9 seconds at WrestleMania 2 even though the actual time was closer to 30 seconds. I can add a source.  TJ   Spyke   15:35, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

The Duggan vs Austin match was actually 33 seconds. The match can easily be found on Youtube. Watch it and time it from bell to bell. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.113.209.182 (talk) 18:33, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Notation Marker (†)
The notation marker "†" is used for two seperate meanings in the Reigns section. It's used to specify reigns which are not recognized by the WWE, but at the bottom it's specified that it's usage is to denote that the exact date is off. Whether these two notations apply to the same reigns or not, one should be changed because it only serves to cause confusion. Mizery Made ( talk  ·  contribs ) 02:32, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

When you try to sort by days held it doesn't sort correctly, instead of being in numerical order it just displays anything with a 1, then 2, then 1, I.E., a 30 day reign is listed as longer than a 100 day reign. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.116.140.212 (talk) 03:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

WCW Four way ladder match
In the Fatal Four Way Ladder match Between Bret Hart, Goldberg, Sid Vicious, and Scott Hall, How come Kevin Nash isn't listed as a special referee, Nash played a huge part in that title match 71.235.161.49 (talk) 14:41, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Unrecognized reigns
Since you removed the "reign not recognized by WWE" from 4 reigns, you should edit this part too: "Overall, there have been 79 different champions. Chris Benoit, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Lex Luger, and Wahoo McDaniel are officially tied for having the most reigns at five each (Flair has an unrecognized sixth reign)."

Flair's sixth reign is actually recognized, WWE just botched it, his reign ends on the exact same day that Valentine won it from him according to wwe.com: http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/unitedstates/3044541222 Same error with Jones and Mulligan.

So they just forgot to add these 4 reigns. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WrestlingLegendAS (talk • contribs) 01:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

I contacted some WWE staff on Twitter but they didn't care. Does anyone here know people within WWE and could make them correct their title history? WrestlingLegendAS (talk) 22:44, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Look at this
"WWE recognizes Flair's fourth and fifth reigns as being uninterrupted, and considers this a continuation of the fourth." They do? So why do they state it ended on July 26? http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/unitedstates/3044541222 They just forgot to add the two reigns that happened between July 26 and the January 27 title win by Roddy Piper (same goes for the Blackjack / Jones stuff: http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/unitedstates/304454113) And we should not put these reigns in grey even if WWE decided to see the reign as a continuation, because the title changes happened in NWA and were recognized at that time.WrestlingLegendAS (talk) 16:12, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Alberto Del Rio's Reign
If you add both of Alberto's individual title reigns up it doesn't add up correctly to his combined reigns. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.194.35 (talk) 17:13, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Carlito Caribbean Cool
Ring announcer calls Carlito Caribbean Cool. It is time that is not called Carlito yet.

He's known as Carlito Chris &#34;WarMachineWildThing&#34; (talk) 16:07, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Shinkazamaturi, three years ago Richard BB and I told you that you need a reliable source (per WP:RS, WP:V) when you tried to change Big Show's name to The Big Show; we told you that what announcers say isn't good enough. Reminders of this are on your talk page.  You were also told not to make personal attacks during that discussion.  Three years later and nothing has changed.LM2000 (talk) 16:31, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

If the ring announcer is wrong, why Vince McMahon listed　in WWE Championship page? It's that Ring announcer said. --Shinkazamaturi (talk) 16:41, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * He's listed as such because consensus says so. WP:DROPTHESTICK and move on and if you continue to add things announcers say without a source I'll take it to WP:ANI.LM2000 (talk) 16:47, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Rick Rude's title reign
So if (judging by JDC808's edit) Rick Rude's reign lasted 378 days both by WWE.com and "non-WWE title history source" ©, I guess he is under Cena in combined reigns table? I'll do it for now, but this definitely needs a discussion. -176.36.57.234 (talk) 14:55, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Doesn't need a discussion if that is in fact what multiple sources say. This source says Rude vacated the title in December 1992; the list here on Wikipedia said January 11, 1993. That source did not give the exact day, but WWE.com says December 1, 1992. That's two sources, WWE's official title history and a non-WWE source of the title history, that says December 1992. Since WWE.com gave an exact day, that's the day I went with. -- JDC808  ♫  18:51, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Fixing Combined Reigns
After further discovering changes made by JDC808's, I found that combined reigns table is now a real mess. If we make changes, we gotta make them right to the end. First of all, some newly counted combined reigns numbers don't match the rank they've got (e.g. Greg Valentine, Dustin Rhodes). Secondly, if WWE don't recognize title reigns, we don't have to count them in the combined reigns table, same as with Antonio Inoki's unrecognized reign as WWE Champ. Judging by this, Greg Valentine and Paul Jones are 2-time champs (not 3), and Blackjack Mulligan is a 3-time champ (not 4). And the last but not least, OK, we count 6 Ric Flair's reigns as champ in the combined reigns table, but now as we recounted all title reigns, his combined days are 773, not 785. So I'm gonna be the one who would FINALLY get all of this the right way, once and for all. -176.36.57.234 (talk) 19:36, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * We don't need comments such as "So I'm gonna be the one who would FINALLY get all of this the right way, once and for all". It sounds very pretentious, especially when you were mostly wrong, except for Flair and Dustin. I forgot to fix a couple when fixing the dates based on both sources. Good example is Flair where his and Steamboat's second reign dates were wrong. Wikipedia had December 30, 1978, but neither source supported that. That and Dustin's were the only ones that needed fixed when you made your edit. -- JDC808  ♫  20:56, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Still don't understand why unrecognized reigns have to be in combined reigns table. -176.36.57.234 (talk) 00:24, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * They're unrecognized by WWE, but that doesn't mean they didn't happen. -- JDC808  ♫  04:03, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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Apollo Crews
I thought WWE shows right now were taped in batches well in advance of their air dates. So is the date Crews actually began as champion really 25 May? The title changes at WrestleMania 36 reflect date uncertainty on their pages, so unless this one is different in some way, shouldn't it? Anonymous Contributor 012786 (talk) 09:20, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The most recent report with a schedule for their taping showed that they taped the Monday, May 25th, episode of WWE Raw earlier that day. https://www.si.com/wrestling/2020/04/17/wwe-filming-schedule-changes-reduce-performer-travel-coronavirus

Mulligan and the Unrecognised Reigns
Apologies, I realise this is probably not the correct forum to ask this, but I've been struggling to find any reason as to why the Jones/Mulligan exchanges in November and December 1976 are unrecognised by the WWE. After an age of searching, all I could find was reference to Mulligan's protest with the NWA regarding Jones' defeat of him on 09-Dec-1976, which could have rendered Jones' reign unrecognised, but that doesn't explain Mulligan's prior reign from 28-Nov-1976 being ignored. That information was found here, incidentally.

If anyone has any information (aside from the possibility of someone at WWE.com simply being incompetent), could you possibly get in touch? And if, as I suspect, this isn't the right place for this, I understand it will have to be deleted, but frankly this is driving me nuts. Morogth (talk) 03:26, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Sheesh
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