But that would kinda kill the point, wouldn't it? Santino would start to get cheers if he could successfully defend his title for 60+ straight weeks. I really doubt the Honky Tonk Man defended his title every week.
Hell, if they could start to harp on the fact that he's falsely adding weeks to his meter by not even defending the title, it could work to get him more heel heat.
I'm not saying he should be defending against someone like Batista, but he's been champion for 6 weeks(?), and I think he might have defended it once. If he was truly going the Honky Tonk Man route, he'd be retaining by countouts and DQs every other week.
He's defended against D-Lo, Snitsky, and Deuce. So that's at least 3 defenses. Did Kofi ever get a rematch?