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The Undertaker defending the World Heavyweight title at the Royal Rumble in January 2010. After successfully defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Rey Mysterio at the Royal Rumble on January 31, 2010, [206] The Undertaker lost the championship at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on February 21.
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 ...
The Undertaker; Toshiaki Kawada; ... a new World Championship, called the WWE Universal Championship was introduced at ... WWE keeps all wrestlers' salary, employment ...
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 ...
He successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship against The Undertaker in a No Holds Barred match at Night of Champions on September 19. [108] On the following episode of SmackDown, a casket was brought to ringside by druids to reveal the return of Paul Bearer, supporting The Undertaker. [109]
He rose to popularity during his time as a co-founding member of The Judgment Day from 2022 to 2024, where he won the 2023 Men's Money in the Bank contract, became a four-time tag team champion, holding the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships twice each under the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship banner with former Judgment Day ...
No Way Out was generally well received by critics. John Canton of TJR Wrestling rated the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship a 4.5 star and a 4 star out of 5 stars respectively, these are the two highest rated matches from the event. [2] The event had 272,000 buys, down on the No Way Out 2008 figure of 329,000 buys. [12] [2]
The 2002 Backlash would be the final Backlash held under the WWF name. On May 6, 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) due to a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund over the "WWF" initialism. [8] The night after Backlash, Big Show betrayed Stone Cold Steve Austin in a tag team match against the nWo and joined the stable.