[5][12], The Middle East Cup was a tournament that took place in Dubai on December 2, 1996. Gender occasionally plays a role in the classifications of championship belts. [37], The championship tournament started on August 7, 2014, and there would be new #1 contenders for the titles. Instead, each promotion can promote their top title as a world title, with some of them promoting title matches around the world to claim the designation. This list includes the number of times the wrestler has held the title, the date and location of the win, and a description of the winning bout. TCW International Championship. The professional wrestling championships are not won through legitimate athletic competition; they are instead won via scripted endings to a match or on occasion awarded to a . It is defended like any other championship but all matches are contested under British Rounds Rules. ShiKid. Roman Reigns is the current champion in his fourth reign. Title, Randy Orton vs. Otis, and Riddle vs. Chad Gable", "5/10 NXT 2.0 results: Moore's review of Cora Jade vs. Natalya, NXT Tag Team Champions Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne vs. Roxanne Perez and Wendy Choo, the NXT Women's Breakout Tournament begins", "5/17 NXT 2.0 results: Moore's review of Tony D'Angelo vs. Santos Escobar, Cameron Grimes and Solo Sikoa vs. Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams, The Viking Raiders vs. He won the title by defeating previous champion Brock Lesnar in a Winner Takes All match to unify the WWE Championship and Universal Championship, which Reigns defended, on April 3 2022, at WrestleMania 38 in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex city of Arlington, Texas. The Gold Rush Tournament was a tournament to determine the new #1 contender for World Heavyweight Champion Batista. The first NXT Women's Champion was crowned on June 20, 2013, with Paige defeating Emma in the tournament finals. The Undisputed WWE Universal Championship was available to both brands but became exclusive to SmackDown as a result of the 2023 WWE Draft. The complete title histories for the championships of WWE Raw, WWE SmackDown LIVE, and WWE NXT, including the WWE Championship, Universal Championship, Intercontinental Championship, United States Championship, Raw Women's Championship, Raw Tag Team Championship, NXT Championship, NXT Women's Championship, NXT Tag Team Championship, and many more. (Photo by Deb Kolt) What great and catchy. [9], The WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to decide new WWF Tag Team Champions after former champions The Smokin' Gunns had to vacate the titles due to Billy Gunn suffering a neck injury,[10] the tournament was won by The Bodydonnas (Skip and Zip). [59] The tournament returned in 2021 and the first round started on the July 13, 2021 episode. The NXT Breakout Tournament is a tournament composed of eight members of the WWE Performance Center who are making their NXT TV debuts. You will be able to edit a promotion as well, but you must either win all the championships in the game in Wrestling Career and/or send all the promotions to the top of the ratings in Booking Career first. There are two tag team championships for male wrestlers on the main roster, which are held and defended jointly across both brands as an undisputed championship, and one tag team championship for female wrestlers, which is shared by the two brands. See more ideas about pro wrestling, professional wrestling, wrestling. The title was renamed the WWF Heavyweight Championship when the WWWF became the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in March 1979 for marketing purposes. Following the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension and subsequent draft on July 19, 2016, WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day were drafted to Raw, leaving SmackDown without a tag team championship. Junkyard Dog won the tournament after defeating Randy "Macho Man" Savage. [14], The men's tag team championship is the NXT Tag Team Championship. . [6][7][8], The WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to decide new WWF Tag Team Champions after former champions Diesel and Shawn Michaels vacated the titles due to the two not being able to function as a tag team,[9] which was won by The 1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly. [44], At Clash of Champions 2017, Dolph Ziggler won the United States Championship by defeating defending champion Baron Corbin and Bobby Roode in a triple threat match. [66], On May 12, 2020, the Intercontinental Championship was declared vacant after champion Sami Zayn elected to refrain from competing during the COVID-19 pandemic. American wrestler Ric Flair has had multiple world heavyweight championship reigns spanning over three decades. The tournament was held between June 19 and July 27, 2003, at Vengeance. WrestleMania was taped on March 25 and 26, This page was last edited on 19 June 2023, at 06:56. [8] Since April 2022, the title has represented one-half of the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, with the other half represented by the Universal Championship, but both titles have retained their individual lineages. There are also two jointly held and defended tag team championshipsone representing each brandpromoted as an undisputed tag team championship open to both Raw and SmackDown. A common variation is the "hardcore championship", a title often defended in weapons-filled and bloody competitions with fewer rules (count outs and disqualifications are not usually allowed). The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. Most wrestlers compete exclusively on a single brand (with select exemptions). Championships are designated by divisions of weight, height, gender, wrestling style, and other qualifications. The winner earned a Intercontinental Championship match against Gunther. [55], As part of WrestleMania Axxess, the winner of the NXT Women's Championship Invitational received an NXT Women's Championship match on the morning of April 8, 2018. Category:SENDAI Girls' Pro Wrestling teams and stables. Sign up for BINGE to watch. [7][8], At the top of WWE's championship hierarchy for female wrestlers are the Women's World Championship on Raw and the WWE Women's Championship on SmackDownboth regarded as women's world championships. Bad News Barrett defeated Rob Van Dam in the final and defeated Big E to win the title. TNA X Division Championship (Second Version) The LeatherAble TNA's X Division Championship has gone through a number of changes since being introduced to the upstart wrestling brand back in 2002. When one promotion absorbs or purchases another, the titles from the defunct promotion may continue to be defended in the new promotion or be decommissioned, usually through championship unification. Previous champions Raquel Rodriguez and Liv Morgan relinquished the title due to a shoulder injury incurred by Morgan.[11]. In some sports, there is a world series, but that term usually has a somewhat different meaning. 12 * AEW World Championship. Professional wrestling championships are often split up into various different classifications, each of which designate varying levels of importance to the belts. WWE considers championship belts to be part of marketing and thus, what better way to market a wrestler or the company than using these titles during television appearances, interviews, and signings. A tournament to crown a new champion was then set to begin on the May 15 episode of SmackDown.[67]. Sign up for Peacock to watch. Charlotte defeated Natalya at NXT TakeOver on May 29, 2014, to become the new champion. The Miz", "WWE Royal Rumble results: Powell's live review of the Royal Rumble matches, Brock Lesnar vs. Bobby Lashley for the WWE Championship, Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins for the WWE Universal Championship, Becky Lynch vs Doudrop for the Smackdown Women's Championship", "WWE Elimination Chamber results: Powell's live review of two Elimination Chamber matches, Roman Reigns vs. Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship, Becky Lynch vs. Lita for the Raw Women's Championship, Ronda Rousey and Naomi vs. Charlotte Flair and Sonya Deville", "WrestleMania 38 results: Powell's live review of night two with Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar for the Unified WWE Championship, RK-Bro vs. Wrestlers assigned to the two main brands exclusively compete on the respective weekly television programs, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown, albeit with some exceptions. The following weight classes exist in lucha libre, as defined by the "Comisin de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." The inaugural tournament began on the May 10, 2022 episode of NXT 2.0. The Cruiserweight Classic[40] saw thirty-two of the world's best cruiserweights battle it out to be crowned WWE's first WWE Cruiserweight Classic winner. As in other professional wrestling promotions, WWE promotes several championships, with titleholders typically determined via the results of professional wrestling matches within scripted storylines. Individual National Champions 125 Pounds: Pat Glory (Princeton) def. This event has gone on to be known as the Chris Benoit double murder and suicide. Matt Ramos (Purdue) 133 Pounds: Vito Arujau (Cornell) def. The Road to WrestleMania Tournament was a tournament to crown a #1 contender for John Cena's WWE Championship at WrestleMania 22. The champion may be forced to vacate his or her title if the injury becomes too severe and the championship is too important. In 2015, Ryback kept the WWE Intercontinental Championship while recovering from a knee infection. Tickets; Championship Info; The defending champions, The Undisputed Era, were determined the night before at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans. However, on the January 16 episode, after Jinder Mahal and Bobby Roode won their respective semifinals matches, Roode challenged Mahal to have the final that night and Bryan scheduled it for that episode's main event. Category:RISE Wrestling teams and stables. On rare occasions, a male wrestler will compete in championship matches for championships generally contested exclusively in the women's division. [55], As part of WrestleMania Axxess, the winner of the NXT Tag Team Championship Invitational received an NXT Tag Team Championship match on the morning of April 8, 2018. The bookers in a company will place the title on the most accomplished performer, or whom they believe will generate fan interest in terms of event attendance and television viewership. It was the first world title established in WWE, at the time known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), having been introduced in 1963 as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship. The inaugural tournament began on the November 11, 2022, episode of SmackDown. 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The NXT Breakout Tournament is a tournament composed of eight members of the WWE Performance Center who are making their NXT TV debuts. The colors and symbols indicate the home brand of the champions. The Deadly Games WWF Championship Tournament was a tournament to decide a new WWF Champion after the title was vacated at the previous pay-per-view after Kane and The Undertaker pinned then-champion Stone Cold Steve Austin during a Triple Threat title match. Overview; Title Names; Title Changes; Top Lists; Comments; . Owens and Zayn won the titles as part of the Raw and SmackDown rosters, respectively, with both drafted to Raw in the 2023 WWE Draft. Woods was an Oregon City High class of . Nikkita Lyons was injured during training and her semi-final opponent, Fallon Henley, originally got a bye to the finals but, Tiffany Stratton challenged Henley to earn her spot in the finals in which Stratton then replaced Lyons in the tournament. Not far into the match, Amore was thrown into the ropes by Simon Gotch. Mexico [ edit] The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic is an annual tag team tournament featured on the NXT brand and is named after WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, who died in 2015. On the February 19 episode of 205 Live, General Manager Drake Maverick scheduled an eight-man single elimination tournament with the winner facing Buddy Murphy for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship at WrestleMania 35. The tournament final was supposed to be Benoit vs CM Punk but Benoit no showed the event and was replaced by Johnny Nitro, who would go on to win the title. 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In 1998, Shane Douglas kept the ECW World Heavyweight Championship while sidelined. 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The following day, Amore was released and the title was vacated. Junkyard Dog won the tournament after defeating Randy "Macho Man" Savage. The day after police ruled that Benoit himself had killed his wife and son before committing suicide. It eventually migrated to Japan as well, though it was not considered to be an official WWF title until after 1997, when a tournament was held in the United States to crown a champion. In late March 2002, due to the WWF's roster having doubled in size, the, After the WWF was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) due to a lawsuit by the, The following night, Lesnar signed a deal to appear exclusively on the, The title was vacated after a controversial finish when. It revolved around a 16-man single-elimination tournament, and also featured a WWF World Heavyweight Championship match. These are claimed by a wrestler and defended in sanctioned matches, but are not recognized as legitimate titles by the promotion. 10 6 comments DorkChatDuncan 3 yr. ago World: King of Lions Midcard: Scion Heavyweight Openweight: INVINCIBLE (or INTENSITY) Championship Tag Team/Six Man: Hydra Championship Suplewich 3 yr. ago I like the King of Lions, however I am looking for title names where they are basically the same for each championships with the exception of one word. Raw has one primary and secondary championship for male wrestlers, and a singles championship for female wrestlers. The Miz in Triple Threat, the Triple Threat winners meet for a spot in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at Night of Champions, Trish Stratus appears", "5/12 WWE Friday Night Smackdown results: Powell's review of Roman Reigns' return, AJ Styles vs. The title was renamed the WWF Championship in May 1989. The Undisputed WWF Championship #1 Contendership Tournament was a tournament to face Chris Jericho for the Undisputed WWF Championship at No Way Out. 1991) Being the heavyweight champion of the world's oldest wrestling promotion brings with it a certain amount of prestige. They are made of elaborately designed plates of gold or other precious metals, usually bearing the name of the title and the wrestling promotion, and is on a leather strap. I'm using the Unified Women's Championship as I originally had both the Raw and Smackdown Women's titles, but found the women's roster still too small to be split between to brands. The only active National Wrestling Alliance championship formerly in a specified weight division is the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (July 14, 1948 - present). At WrestleMania 21, John Cena defeated John "Bradshaw" Layfield to become the new champion. NXT serves as the developmental brand (although it was considered a third main brand from 2019 to 2021).[1]. Fyre and Dawn were drafted to SmackDown in the 2023 WWE Draft and took the title with them.[17]. Participants compete for a championship, and must defend it after winning it. I still find it a little bit lame tho. P Pro Wrestling Wave championships (2 P) U Undisputed British Women's Champions (5 P) W Women's professional wrestling championships lists (6 P) Women's professional wrestling tag team championships (35 P) World Wonder Ring Stardom championships (1 C, 10 P) WWE women's championships (17 P) Title history Names Reigns Combined reigns Inaugural and record six-time champion Charlotte Flair Two-time and longest combined reign at 535 days (559 as recognized by WWE) Becky Lynch Record longest-reigning champion Bianca Belair at 420 days As of June 19, 2023. Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax. In no division have the Nittany Lions been better than the 184-pound class, with Brooks . [27], The ECW Homecoming Tournament was a tournament held in 2009 to crown a #1 contender for the ECW Championship at the 2010 Royal Rumble. The WWF Brawl for All was a shoot fighting tournament held in the World Wrestling Federation that lasted from June 29, 1998, to August 24, 1998. There is also a tag team championship shared between both brands. They defeated previous champions The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods), Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson), and Chase University (Andre Chase and Duke Hudson) in a fatal four-way tag team match on February 4, 2023, at Vengeance Day. This championship is used more in comedy segments than normal matches. Since May 20, 2022, both titles have been held and jointly defended under the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship banner but maintain their individual lineages, with the holders of the undisputed championship allowed to appear on both brands. 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