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Michaels is a four-time world champion, having held the WWF Championship three times and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship once. He is also a two-time Royal Rumble winner (and the first man to win the match as the first entrant), the company's first Grand Slam Champion and fourth Triple Crown Champion , as well as a two-time WWE Hall of Fame ...
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.
World champions were initially recognized by wide public acclamation, with heavyweight champions winning and losing championship recognition solely in the ring. Retirements periodically resulted in no one, true champion being recognized, while in other cases new champions were proclaimed only to see a previously recognized champion come out of ...
The all-time lineal heavyweight champions boxing list started in 1885 and includes Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson among others.
Shawn Michaels began to pursue the World Heavyweight Championship after the event. Randy Orton defeated Rob Van Dam at the event to begin his first reign as WWE Intercontinental Champion, which lasted seven months, [10] the longest reign in over seven years at the time. [20] Orton began feuding with Mick Foley following the event.
Triple H set to face Shawn Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship in a Three Stages of Hell Match. The main feud heading into Armageddon on the Raw brand was between Shawn Michaels and Triple H, with the two feuding over the World Heavyweight Championship.
Shawn Michaels, who was voted to face Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. The seventh match was the World Heavyweight Championship match, where the fans' chose Shawn Michaels by 39%, to face Triple H for the title. Triple H targeted Michael's injured knee, applying a Figure four leglock on Michaels. Michaels would gain the ...
There are also titles that are not considered major, but play a significant role in legitimizing the heavyweight champion: The Ring began awarding championship belts in 1922, stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s, then reintroduced their title in 2002, and ignored the current ongoing world championship lineage. Under the original ...