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In professional wrestling, championships are competed for in scripted storylines by a promotion's roster of contracted wrestlers. [1] WWE is an American-based company and is the world's largest professional wrestling promotion.
Current champion Cody Rhodes, who holds the title in tandem with the WWE Universal Championship as the Undisputed WWE Championship. The WWE Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in WWE, currently defended on the SmackDown brand. It was the first world title established in WWE, at the time known as the World ...
Youngest, four-time and final champion Randy Orton. The World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in WWE.It was established by WWE in 2002 after WWE bought out World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and split its roster into two brands, Raw and SmackDown!, in a brand extension.
WWE's inaugural world champion, Buddy Rogers, who became the WWWF World Heavyweight Champion in 1963, a title that is now known as the WWE Championship.. The American professional wrestling promotion WWE has maintained several men's world championships since Capitol Wrestling Corporation seceded from the National Wrestling Alliance in 1963 to become the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF ...
Former champion Gene Kiniski was the special referee. † Harley Race: March 20, 1984: House show: Wellington, New Zealand: 8 3 — This title change was not authorized by the NWA. This title change was recognized by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1998 until 2001, and has been occasionally recognized by the NWA since 2015. [13] [14 ...
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship is the original world title of WCW and it remained as such until March 2001, when WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) and the championship was defended as the WCW Championship as part of the Invasion storyline, with the WCW initials being dropped from the title's ...
It was originally known as the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and began as a regional championship created by and defended in Jim Crockett Jr.'s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, a territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Harley Race became the inaugural champion on the title's introduction on January 1, 1975.
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) 1 Shinjiro Otani: March 20, 1996: Hyper Battle 1996 Nagoya, Japan: 1 43: 42 Otani defeated Wild Pegasus in tournament final to determine the first WCW Cruiserweight Champion. This was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling event. [2] [3] 2 Dean Malenko: May 2, 1996: WorldWide: Lake Buena Vista, FL: 1 67: 66 Aired on May 18 ...