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Two professional wrestling championships have been named WWE Cruiserweight Championship by WWE: . WWE Cruiserweight Championship (1996–2007) – originally established as the WCW Cruiserweight Championship by World Championship Wrestling in 1996, it was acquired by the World Wrestling Federation in 2001 and renamed WWF Cruiserweight Championship before becoming the WWE Cruiserweight ...
The WWE Women's Championship Tournament was a tournament to crown a new WWE Women's Champion after champion Trish Stratus retired from her wrestling career. [8] [23] The first round started on September 25, 2006, and ended at Cyber Sunday when Lita, who Stratus defeated in her retirement match, defeated Mickie James.
Before the finale of the Cruiserweight Classic, WWE Chief Operating Officer Triple H revealed that the winner would also win the inaugural WWE Cruiserweight Championship for WWE's revived cruiserweight division exclusive to the Raw brand. T. J. Perkins defeated Gran Metalik in the tournament final to become the inaugural champion. [5] 2 The ...
The title became the WWE Cruiserweight Championship on May 5 when the WWF became World Wrestling Entertainment. [45] World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE): SmackDown: 51 The Hurricane: May 14, 2002: SmackDown! Montreal, QC, Canada: 2 40: 38 Formerly known as Shane Helms. This was a triple threat match, also involving Billy Kidman.
Cruiserweight wrestling is often associated with lucha libre, where similar moves and match pacing are used, but Mexico uses a different weight class system and the actual term "cruiserweight" (crucero, in Spanish) is rarely used in favor of Light-Heavyweight (peso semicompleto in Spanish). Cruiserweight wrestlers tend to be wrestlers of ...
Full list of current WWE Champions, including Universal, Intercontinental, Women's, US, Tag Team, and more across Raw, SmackDown and NXT.
WWE and NXT pay-per-view event schedule and calendar, with WWE Backlash 2023 coming up ... WWE SmackDown Women's Championship: Rhea Ripley (c) vs Zelina Vega ... Access this edition with a 1-month ...
The championship was originally created as the WCW Cruiserweight Championship on March 20, 1996. However, after the acquisition of World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) assets by rival company World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), both lineages of the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship and the WCW Cruiserweight Championship were considered to be one and the same, with WWE referring to the ...