Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
When WWE Champion Randy Orton defeated World Heavyweight Champion John Cena at the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view event on December 15, 2013, in a Tables, ladders, and chairs match, the World Heavyweight Championship was unified with the WWE Championship, resulting in the retiring of the former, [7] as well as the renaming of the ...
Bruno Sammartino defeated inaugural champion Buddy Rogers and became the longest-reigning champion at 2,803 days; pictured here in his second reign with the then-WWWF Heavyweight Championship (now WWE Championship) The WWE Championship is the original world heavyweight championship of WWE, currently defended on the SmackDown brand.
Lex Luger holds the longest reign, with his third reign lasting 523 days, while Dean Ambrose holds the longest reign under the WWE banner at 351 days (overall the third longest in the title's history). [3] "Stunning" Steve Austin's second reign was the shortest, lasting approximately five minutes.
The Intercontinental Championship has been called the second most important championship in the company, after the WWE Championship. [3] It has been active in WWE for the second-longest period, but is the third-oldest active title overall, behind the WWE Championship (1963) and the United States Championship (1975), the latter of which was ...
Five-time champions The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso); their fifth reign was the longest reign at 622 days, which is also the longest male tag team championship reign in WWE history, and as a team, they have the longest combined reign at 1,002 days.
—Gunther, during a celebratory segment on the 11 September 2023 edition of Monday Night Raw for becoming the longest reigning Intercontinental Champion in WWE history (Norfolk, Virginia, USA) At the Royal Rumble on 28 January, Gunther was the first entrant and the last person eliminated from the titular match; he was eliminated by the match's ...
The WWE Championship was returned to Raw after Edge defeated Rob Van Dam and John Cena. [45] June 23, 2008 SmackDown: WWE Champion Triple H was drafted to SmackDown during the 2008 WWE Draft. [46] April 13, 2009 Raw: WWE Champion Triple H was drafted back to Raw during the 2009 WWE Draft. [47] Both the ECW brand and renamed ECW Championship ...
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.