Titles
John "Bradshaw" Layfield won the WWE title at The Great American Bash 2004, and kept it until WrestleMania 21. During this time he set up The Cabinet. This reign lasted nine months, and consequently JBL was the longest-reigning WWE champion of the decade, a reign which was broken by John Cena. JBL defeated many established main event stars during his reign, including Eddie Guerrero, The Undertaker, Booker T, The Big Show and Kurt Angle.
Orlando Jordan won the WWE United States Championship, after picking up a controversial win over former champ John Cena on March 3, 2005. This was his first title reign of any kind since his debut. Jordan and JBL later destroyed Cena's Spinner belt.
While Co-Secretaries of Defense, the Basham Brothers picked up their second reign as Tag Champs on the January 13 edition of SmackDown! when they eliminated Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio in a Fatal Four Way elimination match that also included the teams of Mark Jindrak and Luther Reigns, and Booker T and Eddie Guerrero.
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Famous quotes containing the word titles:
“Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)