Title: Cena's 2006-07 vs. Punk's 2011-13 vs. Styles' 2017-18

[The Rick Jericho]

Who had the best run?

John Cena:

Reign: 380 Days
Notable Opponents: Edge, Umaga, Shawn Michaels, Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton
Main Events as WWE Champion: 11 Pay-Per-Views

CM Punk:

Reign: 434 Days
Notable Opponents: John Cena, Alberto Del Rio, Chris Jericho, Daniel Bryan, Ryback, The Rock
Main Events as WWE Champion: 5 Pay-Per-Views

AJ Styles:

Reign: 371 Days
Notable Opponents: Brock Lesnar, Jinder Mahal, Shinsuke Nakamura, Samoa Joe, Daniel Bryan
Main Events as WWE Champion: 2 Pay-Per-Views

So which title run was your favorite?

[CeilingFan]

Definitely the Reign of Styles.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

I pick AJ. The biggest gripe is his feuds lasted too long but all things considered it did feel like he could lose the title to his competition at any point and his feuds were good and personal before they withered at the end

Punk reign ended up being stat padded by the end and his feuds weren't really engaging

Cena title run just felt like a big run with nothing of consequence happening

[Deleted]

I missed Cena's so I can't vote for it, but I liked Punk's a hell of a lot better than AJ's. The matches were way better.

Please, no more of these kinds of reigns though.

[Deleted]

I'm going to say Cena's. None of them were good but that one at least had stuff like the Umaga and Khali matches. Punk's was pretty bad and AJ's was outright dire - whole thing was basically just feuds that were an endless cycle of, "AJ and his opponent nap for 20 minutes and then AJ wins when the match finally finds a pulse, repeat for months on end."

[DZ: WF Legacy]

I loved AJ's, but they spent too much time with him dicking around with Nakamura (even though a few of the matches were pretty good - MitB from what I recall). Punk's was interesting because he turned heel in the middle of it, and it made for an interesting dynamic even though he rarely main-evented unless Cena was involved. Bringing Heyman on-board was an awesome edition. I remember hating Cena's reign, but he had some good damn opponents along the way.

Overall, probably Punk.

[Cvslfc123]

Punk's was the only one that I was watching regularly during so I have to go with that.

[Deleted]

I keep coming back to this, but the fact that there is now actual nostalgia and fond memories of 2007 to 2011 WWE is mystifying to me.

That period is absolutely terrible in my eyes. The worst period of my time as a fan.

Styles run got me repeated Styles and Joe matches that I really loved.

[Deleted]

Punk went heel midway and freshened his reign up compared to any of the others. Along the way Punk worked with more people due to this. That just goes beyond the others I'd say.

[Deleted]

Punk's reign was the last time I truly enjoyed main roster WWE and actually wanted to watch Raw and Smackdown every week.

[WR91]

Surprisingly I'm going to say John Cena's reign.

[Susan "Poison" Candy]

CM Punks reign but as you can see WWE didn't give a shit about it as he only was in the main event of a PPV 5 times when he should've been main eventing PPV's left and right.

[Deleted]

I'll take Punk's, as that was one of the last times he was worth anything. Cena's was more of a "main event" run, bunch of big names and actually last matches on the cards. I think AJ's had lots of potential, but it felt like re-watch after re-watch and non of the blow off matches delivered.



I still can't believe that Clown Shoes of all people was seen as more worthy of main event spot in 2012 than Daniel Bryan and CM Punk! 

[Deleted]

CM Punk, due to him being my favourite non-new guy at the time. My favourite new guy being Dean Ambrose.

I absolutely loathed Punk's heel run until the Shield storyline, after that I somewhat tolerated it. I enjoyed some of his promos but I f***ing hated how they nuked his fighting babyface champ run by having Cena call him a coward that can't beat him... despite you know...doing the complete opposite.

I also didn't like him being given a manager at that point in his career when he was the best promo guy in the company, but that Heyman pairing became iconic, I admit.

Then came the try-hard cheap heat tactics and my god did that suck.

Through all of that, he still managed to cut some of the best promos of his career against The Rock, so there's that I guess.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Definitely Punk's.

I hated Cena's one at the time and while I do like Cena now and even appreciate some of his older work, I don't think he started having actually good matches to my taste until 2011 or so.

And AJ's reign was just a f***ing snore of a slog to get through eventually.

[Instant Classic]

I grew up a Cena mark so you can guess my answer.

[fw91]

I feel like AJ's run was a bit of a letdown. I mean I liked it, but I was expecting great matches, and they really didn't meet my expectations. Especially vs Nakamura.

[Bub (BLM)]

Cena. That run had some great main events, and the title always felt important.

[Dub H]

Punks biggest issue was that evev as champ he was nevrer booked as the main attraction.But the reign itself.was the best of then

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Might be controversial but Cena vs Umaga Last man standing match is better than any match from the other two reigns.