The Era of Kai Scott: A Retrospective
Posted by Darren Keebler on 17 Aug 2014
Kai Scott started his professional wrestling career in 1996, and didn't win his first World Title until 2013. With his reign as DEFIANCE World Champion now in the record books, I decided to take a look and compare it to the other notable title reigns in DEFIANCE history.
Although DEFIANCE doesn't sort reign length by year, Scott's reign started on August 25th, 2013 and ended on August 10th, 2014 - narrowly missing an entire year's time as champion (349 days).
Reign lengths aren't available for champions prior to Jeff Andrews. Andrews reigned from November 2012 through April 2013, roughly half a year. Cancer Jiles would hold the title for 4 months, April-August 2013.
Regarding defenses, Scott defended the title succesfully seven times. Six of those defenses were clean singles wins. While the selection of Yoshikazu YAZ as a World Title contender was somewhat controversial, his other defenses - Jiles, Tyrone Walker, Bronson Box, Heidi Christenson and Dusty Griffith - are a virtual who's who of DEFIANCE's best. Compare that to Jeff Andrews, who defended the title three times in straight singles match, once in a 4 vs 4, and once against "a lower midcarder from 12 years ago" that the records didn't even bother to credit him for.
Cancer Jiles didn't defend the title successfully even once. During the DEF1.0 days no wrestler ever defended the World Title more than once successfully.
The only other reign on the records that approaches Scott's reign as World Champion either in duration or successful defenses is Curtis Penn's reign as Southern Heritage Champion, which clocked in at 5 defense - however, two of those were losses via DQ.
In other words, Kai Scott set ALL the records.
That being said, one wrestler on the roster is actually gaining on Scott's records. Eugene Dewey just recorded his fourth succesful defense of the FIST of Defiance the same night that Scott finally dropped the World Title to Dusty Griffith.
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