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The history of American professional wrestling promotion WWE dates back to the early 1950s when it was founded on January 7, 1953 as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC).
In April 1963, the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship was created, ... In March 2002, WWE decided to create two separate rosters, ...
The WWE United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship contested in the American promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. 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 ...
WWE held ECW One Night Stand, an ECW reunion pay-per-view event on June 12, 2005, with Raw and Smackdown! superstars taking on “ECW Originals”. [53] On May 26, 2006, WWE officially announced the relaunch of ECW with its own show on NBC Universal's Sci Fi Channel, later to be known as Syfy, starting June 13, 2006.
WWE Independent Development (WWE ID) and WWE Next in Line (WWE NIL) are developmental systems created by American professional wrestling promotion WWE in the 2020s. [1] The programs support the training and development of athletes at certain wrestling schools, wrestling promotions, and colleges.
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (TKO) is an American media conglomerate created by Endeavor as part of a merger between World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) and Zuffa, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). [9]
In December 2016, WWE announced that they would be establishing a new United Kingdom-based brand and the first championship created for the brand was the WWE United Kingdom Championship. In June 2018, the brand was formally established as NXT UK, and the NXT UK Women's Championship and NXT UK Tag Team Championship were created at that time.
The title became exclusive to the SmackDown brand following the 2016 draft and the WWE Universal Championship was created for the Raw brand. [182] WWE: SmackDown: 128 AJ Styles: September 11, 2016: Backlash: Richmond, VA: 1 140: 140 In December 2016, the title's name reverted to WWE Championship. [9] [183] 129 John Cena: January 29, 2017: Royal ...