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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 Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), having been introduced in 1963 as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship.
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 ...
The top title for male wrestlers is the NXT Championship. It is held by first-time champion Oba Femi, who defeated Trick Williams in a triple threat match also involving Eddy Thorpe at NXT: New Year's Evil on January 7, 2025. [18] The secondary title for male wrestlers is the NXT North American Championship.
Title renamed from Raw Tag Team Championship to World Tag Team Championship on April 15, 2024 WWE Tag Team Championship: A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller) Since: April 6, 2024
The wrestler holding a championship with this name is most commonly referred to as the "world heavyweight champion" or "world champion" (though some promotions may use synonymous/alternate terms, such as the AAA Mega Championship of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide or the Undisputed WWE Championship, the premier title of WWE).
This title change was originally ignored in the United States, presenting Flair's reign as one continuous reign. [14] — Vacated: September 8, 1991 — — — — — Ric Flair was stripped of the title upon signing with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). [14] 41 Masahiro Chono: August 12, 1992: G1 Climax 1992 Day 5: Tokyo, Japan: 1 145: 145
Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. Reigns that began on Impact Wrestling usually air on tape delay and as such are listed with the day the tapings occurred, rather than the air date. Angle holds the record for most reigns, with six.
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.