31 – January 17, 2020 – January 17, 2020
And so start the live shows again. In Lafayette, LA, Truth and Rawley faced off in a one-on-one match for the 24/7 championship. Truth beat Rawley with an Attitude Adjustment to become the FIRST EVER THIRTY-ONE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. While Truth was busy celebrating, Rawley took this opportunity to slide back in the ring and attacked Truth to win back the 24/7 championship.
32 – January 18, 2020 – January 18, 2020
This live show took place in Jackson, MS where Truth planted Rawley with his former foe John Cena’s finisher to become the FIRST EVER THIRTY-TWO-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Sadly for Truth, Mojo wasn’t planning on leaving Jackson without the 24/7 championship so he got back in the ring and defeated Truth to start his fourth reign as the 24/7 champion.
33 – January 19, 2020 – January 19, 2020
You won’t believe what happened on this live show in Topeka, KS. R-Truth brought back the long replaced F-U to beat Mojo Rawley. Yes F-U, the move that Cena used to in the mid-2000s. Of course, that was going to be the finish of the match, making Truth the FIRST EVER THIRTY-THREE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION, but it wasn’t the finish to the 24/7 title story for that night as Rawley got up and pinned Truth to win the title back thankfully ending the live show title changes for a while.
34 – January 27, 2020 – January 27, 2020
On Raw, Mojo Rawley came out with the belt around his waist and exclaimed that he will defend the title anywhere, anytime without running away but he also hired an “offensive lineman” who was, of course, Riddick Moss. Shortly after the promo, Rawley faced No way Jose in a match for the title which ended quickly after a fireman’s carry drop. Mojo celebrated, as a clown ran into the ring and rolled up Rawley to win the 24/7 title. The clown revealed himself to be none other than R-Truth which meant that he had just become the FIRST EVER THIRTY-FOUR-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. But as it turns out, leverage pins aren’t as effective when it comes to keeping your opponent down even after the three counts. Mojo didn’t waste time in getting up and as Truths escape route was blocked by Riddick Moss, Rawley picked Truth upon his shoulders and planted him face-first to win the title back.
35 – March 22, 2020 – April 4, 2020
Truth made multiple attempts to win back his baby but he was unsuccessful until one very fortunate day. Almost two months after he dropped the belt, Truth devised a foolproof plan. While Moss was jogging, shirtless with the belt still around his waist he spotted a referee sitting in a fancy car. Riddick knew something was up so he pulled the referee out of the car pushing him to reveal who he was therewith. In the background, we see the trunk open up and out pops R-Truth. Truth schoolboy pins Moss and becomes the FIRST EVER THIRTY-FIVE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Truth holds onto it until Wrestlemania, were on night one he interrupts Rawley and Gronk on the hosts’ platform. Gronk sees this as an opportunity and drives his forearm into Truths jaw and attempts a pin which is broken up by Mojo who then successfully pins R-Truth to win the title again. On the second night of Wrestlemania 36, Gronk wins the title by diving off of the platform onto a bunch of wrestlers and then pinning his buddy Mojo Rawley.
36 – June 1, 2020 – June 22, 2020
Sad days had arrived for R-Truth as Gronk became the longest-reigning 24/7 Champion with him holding it for sixty-seven days. However, Truth eventually did get his hands back on the championship as he disguised himself as a gardener at Gronk’s house. While Gronk was busy doing a TikTok dance, Truth crept up behind him and rolled him up for a one-two-three becoming the FIRST EVER THIRTY-SIX-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Truth dropped the belt to Akira Tozawa three weeks later after being brutalized by Bobby Lashley before his scheduled match.
37 – June 29, 2020 – July 20, 2020
A week after losing his baby, Truth was scheduled to face Tozawa in a single’s match for the 24/7 championship during which he faked a knee injury to surprise Tozawa with a surprise schoolboy pin to become the FIRST EVER THIRTY-SEVEN-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Truth held onto it for a little under a month and his title reign came to an end when he bumped into The Hurt Business backstage on Raw and had Benjamin boot him in the face awarding Shelton Benjamin with his first championship in a while.
38 – August 10, 2020 – August 17, 2020
Truth won the title back three weeks later from Akira Tozawa on an episode of Raw right after Tozawa and his ninjas lost to the Viking Raiders, Cedric Alexander and Ricochet in an eight-man tag team match. Disguised as one of the ninjas, Truth surprised Tozawa with a roll-up on the entrance ramp, as they were retreating after their loss, to become the FIRST EVER THIRTY-EIGHT-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Only a week later, Truth ran into another boot from Benjamin while running from Tozawa just outside the ring, to give Shelton Benjamin his second 24/7 championship win.
39 – August 31, 2020 – September 27, 2020
After the belt had changed hands multiple times between Cedric, Benjamin and Tozawa, Truth finally got his hands back on it. On an episode of Raw, Tozawa, the then 24/7 champ, was making his way into the Amway arena as he was stopped in the garage by a worker because his name wasn’t on “the list”. Tozawa got out of his minivan to investigate what was going on when, to his amazement, he saw that the list was blank. Tozawa knew something was wrong but he was too late as he soon found his shoulders pinned to the ground for a three fall making Truth the FIRST EVER THIRTY-NINE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. During his reign, multiple attempts were made to dethrone Truth of his prized possession including Akira Tozawa trying to take down Truth on a beach but end up getting apparently devoured by a shark. Truth held onto the belt for a lengthy month-long run which ended on Clash of Champions where every championship must be defended. For the first time in a while, it wasn’t a planned attack as Gulak saw an opportunity when he found Truth doing a backstage interview and rolled him up for a three count.
40 – September 27, 2020 – September 28, 2020
Just five seconds later, Truth pinned Gulak and ended what was the shortest ever 24/7 championship reign to become the FIRST EVER FORTY-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Gulak, to this day, still holds that record. Truth in his gold miner attire hopped away as Gulak chased after him. Next night on Raw, Truth received a letter from Tozawa stating that he had been eaten by a shark which was all a ruse for Truth to be distracted so Tozawa could sneak up from behind and roll him up. Gulak wasn’t far away as the ninja who delivered the letter revealed himself to be a Drew Gulak himself and smashed the case over Truths head.
41 – September 28, 2020 – October 5, 2020
Later that night Gulak was set to defend his newly won title in a triple threat match against Truth and Tozawa. The match was fairly decent and it ended with Truth delivering an AA to Gulak and becoming the FIRST EVER FORTY-ONE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Also, a side note: Cole mentioned that Cena was Truths childhood hero whereas Truth actually debuted in the WWF two years before we saw “The Prototype”. Unfortunately for Truth, he lost the title after tripping over a “wet floor” sign while being chased as a janitor whom he thought to be Randy Orton. It was, after all, Drew Gulak who made a note of saying “see you next fall” before storming off.
#42 – October 5, 2020 – November 2, 2020
Less than an hour later, Truth found himself in a dumpster along with Tozawa and Gulak and after the referee counted the pin, Truth emerged from the dumpster as the FIRST EVER FORTY-TWO-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Truth was successful in keeping the title close to him for almost a month until the November 2 episode of Raw. To Truths surprise, he was scheduled to face Lashley in a non-title match which unfortunately resulted in Lashley absolutely battering the 24/7 Champion leaving him vulnerable after the full nelson. Gulak saw this as an opportunity and ran to the ring for a quick cover which was interrupted by Lashley as he deadlifted Gulak off of Truth and planted his face first. However, Lashley, for some reason, decided to put an unconscious Gulak on top of Truth for a three count, making Gulak the 24/7 Champion.
43 – November 9, 2020 – November 9, 2020
Gulak mistook the 24/7 title as a symbol of having a prominent position on the roster and decided to make a proposition to the Hurt Business, one which didn’t pan out as well as Gulak might have expected it to. Lashley, Benjamin and Cedric laid some hurt on Gulak leaving him vulnerable without any defence. A lurking Truth saw this as an opportunity and hurriedly crawled over Gulak for a three-count to become the FIRST EVER FORTY-THREE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Truths luck soon ran out as it was revealed to him that he would be competing in an eight-man match for the title. As soon as the bell rang, Tozawa knocked Truth out with a spinning, corkscrew roundhouse kick to the head to end his three-week-long title-less drought and ending Truths forty-third tite run.
44 – November 9, 2020 – November 22, 2020
After Tozawa beat Truth, all hell broke loose. Erik of the Viking Raiders ran across the ring to roll up Tozawa to win the belt. His celebration was cut short by Gulak as he stopped Erik’s exit and rolled him up to win back the title with the hopes of leaving Raw that night with the 24/7 championship. However, that didn’t happen because Tucker and Gulak soon got caught up in an inside cradle as Tucker won his first championship in WWE as the ref counted three but Gulak reversed the cradle for the three counts only for another reversal and the person eventually emerging as the champion from that tie-up was Tucker. As Tucker laid down the other 24/7 title hunters he was caught by surprise by a cross-body from Gran Metalik followed by an elbow drop from Lince Dorado putting him down for the three counts. Lince Dorado stood tall with the belt as Metalik raised his hand high before promptly turning on his tag-team partner with a surprise roll-up as the referee counted the three. However, the baby came back to mama at the end of this chaotic ordeal as Truth AA’d Metalik to leave the Amway Arena that night as the FIRST EVER FORTY-FOUR-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION.
This reign lasted a full three weeks until Survivor Series. At the kickoff show, Truth encountered Tozawa by the panellists’ table and knocked him down with a stiff forearm but he was then suddenly rolled up by The Gobbledy Gooker for the fall.
45 – November 22, 2020 – December 31, 2020
Later that night backstage, Tozawa was able to reclaim the title from The Gobbledy Gooker only to be pinned by Truth who had then become the FIRST EVER FORTY-FIVE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. During this reign, Truth escaped many challenges, week after week, and was successful in defending his 24/7 Championship for over a month until on New Year’s eve. Truth was attending a New Year’s party with the New Day and was busy arguing whether it was 2020 or 2019, when suddenly from behind, Angel Garza quickly rolled him up to win his first-ever 24/7 Championship.
This title change was the first title change that ever happened on TikTok.
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#46 – January 4, 2021 – January 31, 2021
Garza’s reign was short-lived. Less than a week later on Raw: Legend’s night, Garza was busy exploring backstage, meeting legends when he came across the Boogeyman. Garza, like any other person, was extremely terrified by the Boogeyman and this gave Truth enough time to pin Garza and become the FIRST EVER FORTY-SIX-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Truth went on to hold the championship for almost a month when during the Women’s Royal Rumble Match R-Truth showed up thinking it was the men’s. Before Truth could fully comprehend what was happening, Alicia Fox attacked and pinned truth to become the 24/7 Champion.
#47 – January 31, 2021 – January 31, 2021
Truth did not waste any time in getting his baby back and as soon as Fox was eliminated from the Royal Rumble match, Truth rolled her up to become the FIRST EVER FORTY-SEVEN-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. However, this reign wasn’t as glorious or nearly long enough as his previous run. Truth was roaming around in the ThunderDome when he bumped into the Royal Rumble panel where Peter Rosenberg convinced Truth that his childhood hero John Cena was nearby. That gave enough time to Rosenberg to low-blow a distracted R-Truth and roll him up for the three count.
#48 – February 1, 2021 – February 6, 2021
The problem with having multiple occupations and holding the 24/7 Championship at the same time is that the risk of losing it increases which was the case with Peter Rosenberg. Rosenberg was a part of the Michael Kay Show while showing off his WWE 24/7 Championship. While Rosenberg was busy talking to his fellows via video call, R-Truth sneaked into Rosenberg’s hotel room and ambushed him. Truth threw around Rosenberg a bit before pinning him to become the FIRST EVER FORTY-EIGHT-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. Truth held onto the title until February 6, where during halftime of the Celebrity Flag Football Game, the former NFL Quarterback Doug Flutie sneaked up behind R-Truth and pinned him to win the 24/7 Championship.
#49 – February 6, 2021 – February 15, 2021
Losing the belt didn’t sit well with R-Truth as he didn’t even wait until the game finished to get his baby back. During the game, Truth crept up behind Flutie and rolled him up, just like he was rolled up, to become the FIRST EVER FORTY-NINE-TIME 24/7 CHAMPION. After holding onto the title for nine days Truths forty-ninth reign as the 24/7 Champion had run its course. While Sarah Schreiber was interviewing Damian Priest and Bad Bunny, R-Truth and Akira Tozawa were found brawling backstage.
Tozawa managed to pin R Truth for the title. However, as he was celebrating he ran into the nearby Archer of Infamy who sent Tozawa head first into one of the boxes that happened to be conveniently lying around backstage. It was then that Priest offered the chart topping artist Bad Bunny to take advantage and he did. Therefore, Bad Bunny achieved arguably the greatest milestone in his career by winning the WWE 24/7 Championship