Bruno Sammartino, who holds the record for the longest WWE Championship reign (almost 8 years), also became the first superstar to win the WWE Championship twice. Although his second reign didn’t come close to the length of his first, Sammartino held the WWE Championship for almost three-and-a-half years in his second go around as champion. During that time he had several memorable matches including a brutal steel cage match against Ivan Koloff, a Sicillian Stretcher Match against Stan Stasiak, and a match against Stan Hansen in which Sammartino suffered a fractured vertebrae.