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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 ...
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. WWE recognizes his reign as beginning on May 16, 2002, when the episode aired on tape delay. [46] 52 Jamie Noble: June 23, 2002 ...
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 ...
Wrestler of the Year (1974) [24] Ranked No. 200 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003 [64] Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Class of 2002 [65] Sports Illustrated. Ranked No. 10 of the 20 Greatest WWE Wrestlers Of All Time [66] World Wide Wrestling Alliance. Hall of Fame (Class of 2008) [67] World Wide ...
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.
The title was introduced into the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1979. Pat Patterson , holder of the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship , was awarded the title (with the kayfabe explanation that he won a tournament in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil and unified the North American and South American titles).
The actor trained with wrestlers Chris Kanyon, Diamond Dallas Page and Shane Helms (aka WWE’s The Hurricane) for his starring role in the 2000 film Ready to Rumble, and learned to be a decent ...
The weight limit used by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Japanese promotions is "up to 225 lbs" (102 kg), while WWE currently uses 205 lb (93 kg) as its weight limit. Due to the scripted nature of professional wrestling and that the billed weight of wrestlers can be changed, weight classes usually are not strictly enforced as they are in ...