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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 ...
[4] [5] The title, now renamed the WWE Championship, was then designated to the SmackDown brand while WWE established an alternate world title known as the World Heavyweight Championship for the Raw brand. A third alternate world title, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, was reactivated for the ECW brand in 2006. It was vacated and ...
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.
Since: April 22, 2024. Won: Defeated Liv Morgan Flair last in a 14-woman Battle Royal to win the title vacated by Rhea Ripley on April 15 due to injury. WWE Women's Championship – Bayley
The World Heavyweight Championship is a men's professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of three men's world titles on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Championship and WWE Universal Championship , which are jointly held and ...
After the unveiling of the Universal title, the WWE Championship was renamed WWE World Championship, [25] [26] but reverted to WWE Championship in December 2016 during AJ Styles' first reign. [ 27 ] The title changed hands for the first time outside of North America when AJ Styles defeated Jinder Mahal to win his second WWE Championship in ...
The title was retired in favor of the WWE Tag Team Championship (now called the World Tag Team Championship) in April 2010, following a year of the two titles being defended together under the umbrella title of "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship". [28] [29] WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship: January 7, 1991: Perro Aguayo and Gran ...
WWE's official title history incorrectly lists Cena's reign as lasting 136 days, ending on July 29, 2004. The match description for Booker T's title win states that Cena was stripped of the title "a few weeks prior" to the July 29, 2004 tape delay episode of SmackDown! [91] — Vacated: July 6, 2004: SmackDown! Winnipeg, MB, Canada — — —