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After the WWF was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) due to a lawsuit by the World Wide Fund for Nature on May 6, 2002, the title was also renamed Undisputed WWE Championship and then WWE Undisputed Championship. [96] World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) 66 The Undertaker: May 19, 2002: Judgment Day: Nashville, TN: 4 63: 62 [97] 67 The ...
As of February 22, 2025, there have been 22 individual Grand Slam Champions. 17 wrestlers have only achieved it once, seven under the original format and 10 under the modern format, while five wrestlers have achieved the Grand Slam under both formats, three of whom automatically became modern Grand Slam champions at the introduction of the modern format (with the same titles they won while ...
WWE also acquired all assets of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 2003, and implemented the ECW brand in 2006, along with the reactivated ECW World Heavyweight Championship; [26] however, when the brand closed in 2010, the title was retired after Ezekiel Jackson became the last champion on the final episode of the ECW on Syfy series. [27]
Edge became the Intercontinental Champion while the United States title was deactivated. In May 2002, the WWF became WWE. [88] World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE): SmackDown: 97 Eddie Guerrero: July 27, 2003: Vengeance: Denver, CO: 2 84: 83 The title was reactivated as the WWE United States Championship as an exclusive title of the SmackDown brand.
In some cases, this occurs in organizations where other world tag team championships are also competed for, as was the case in WCW in the early 1990s and WWE in the 2000s. The term "world tag team championship" can apply to any world tag team championship in general or to a specific one in particular, though this often creates confusion over ...
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 ...
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).
A wrestling event where a company's biggest draws wrestle. [1] Compare B-show and C-show. A-team A group of a wrestling promotion's top stars who wrestle at an A-show. [1] Compare B-team. abort To suddenly discontinue a feud, angle, or gimmick due to a lack of fan interest or some other caveat (like injury), usually without explanation. [1] ace