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In professional wrestling, a championship is a prop used by promotions elevate talent to higher levels within the promotion and/or to interest fans into focusing of certain storylines surrounding certain wrestlers.
Professional wrestling portrays the structure of title match combat sports. Participants compete for a championship, and must defend it after winning it. These titles are represented physically by a championship belt that is worn or carried by the champion(s). In the case of team wrestling, there is a belt for each member of the team.
Pages in category "Professional wrestling champion lists" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The title was retired on the final episode of ECW with the closure of the ECW brand. [27] NXT Cruiserweight Championship: September 14, 2016 T. J. Perkins: January 4, 2022 Carmelo Hayes: 5 The title was retired after it was unified into the NXT North American Championship. [36] NXT United Kingdom Championship: December 15, 2016 Tyler Bate ...
During the 1950s, the National Wrestling Alliance oversaw many wrestling territories such as Mid-Atlantic Wrestling and NWA San Francisco, in a business model known as the "territory system". [1] This is a list of the most notable past and present professional wrestling promotions.
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 men's tag team title is the NXT Tag Team Championship. It is held by Nathan Frazer and Axiom, who are in their second reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating Chase U (Andre Chase and Ridge Holland) at No Mercy on September 1, 2024. [23] Women. The top title for female wrestlers is the NXT Women's Championship.
Current champion Cody Rhodes, who holds the title in tandem with the WWE Universal Championship as the Undisputed WWE Championship. 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 ...