Is The Wwe Belt Real?
Contents
- The WWE Championship
- The WWE Universal Championship
- The WWE World Heavyweight Championship
- The WWE World Heavyweight Championship was a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE.
- It was one of WWE’s primary championships from 2002 until 2016 when it was unified with the WWE Championship to create the WWE Universal Championship.
The WWE belt is one of the most coveted titles in professional wrestling. But is it real? We take a look at the history of the WWE belt and its place in professional wrestling.
The WWE Championship
The WWE Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, currently defended on their Raw brand. It is one of the two world titles in WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that is defended on their SmackDown brand. The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his second reign.
The WWE Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand.
The WWE Championship is widely recognized as the most important championship in WWE. It has been referred to as the “linchpin” of WWE’s success, being one of the company’s original championships that has survived through the years. The inaugural champion was Buddy Rogers, who won the title in 1963. The current champion is AJ Styles, who is in his second reign.
The title was first introduced in 1963 as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) World Heavyweight Championship, after former professional wrestler and current promoter Vince McMahon Sr.’s Capitol Wrestling Corporation seceded from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). It was then known as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship until McMahon was forced to relinquish control of the promotion to his son Vincent K. McMahon in 1980 as a result of a lawsuit by the NWA, and then renamed to Universal Heavyweight Championship until its name was changed again in 2002 to WWE Undisputed Championship when WWE and World Championship Wrestling merged taking their respective titles with them.
Ineligibility for championship recognition by WWE storylines occurs when a titleholder exhibits such deviant behavior that they are stripped of their championship recognition. This has occurred several times throughout history, with our current reigning champion being AJ Styles.
It is one of the two world titles of the WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that is promoted on the Raw brand.
The WWE Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of the two world titles of the WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that is promoted on the Raw brand. The current holder is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign.
The title was introduced in 1963 by Bruno Sammartino, who won a tournament to become its inaugural champion. It lineage has been traced back to the first World Heavyweight Championship and has been known as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship, the WWF Championship, WWE’s original World Heavyweight Championship, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and finally back to being simply called the WWE Championship.
The title became vacant two times: once in 1992 after Hulk Hogan was stripped of it due to controversial manner in which he won it back from The Ultimate Warrior at SummerSlam that year; and second time in 1999 when Triple H vacated it due to injury. In those two instances, new champions were crowned through tournaments organized by then-SmackDown! general manager Stephanie McMahon (who was also Vince McMahon’s daughter). As a result, then-WWF champion Kurt Angle became exclusive to Raw while then-Intercontinental champion Chris Jericho became exclusive to SmackDown!.
The title was unified with then-World Heavyweight Champion Edge as a result of storyline developments that took place at Survivor Series on November 18, 2007. This made Jericho become a grand slam champion (a wrestler who wins all major titles available in WWE). Jericho remains the only superstar to have held all three versions of WWE’s world heavyweight championship.
The WWE Universal Championship
The WWE Universal Championship is the top title in WWE. It is currently held by Brock Lesnar. The title was created when WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeated then-WWE World Heavyweight Champion Goldberg at WrestleMania 33 to unify the two titles.
The WWE Universal Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand.
The title was established as a world heavyweight championship complement to WWE’s existing World Heavyweight Championship, which became exclusive to the SmackDown brand as a result of the 2016 WWE draft. The Universal Championship is currently one of two world titles in WWE, joining the WWE Championship on SmackDown. It is also one of three championship belts in WWE, alongside the Intercontinental and United States Championships. The inaugural champion was Finn Bálor, who defeated Seth Rollins in the finals of a tournament at SummerSlam on August 21, 2016. Brock Lesnar is the current champion in his second reign.
The title was originally represented by the NWA World Heavyweight Championship andWCW World Heavyweight Championship belts; however, following WWE’s purchase of WCW in 2001 and absorption of its assets, those belts were retired and replaced with a single world championship for each brand (Raw and SmackDown). The title became exclusive to Raw in 2003, as a result of that year’s draft lottery. A separate championship – WWE’s version of the NWA/WCW World Heavyweight Championship – was then created for SmackDown. In 2006, WWE underwent a brand extension that split its roster into two rosters (Raw and SmackDown), each with their own respective world titles: the aforementioned WWE Championship forSmackDown and the new World Heavyweight Championship for Raw; this situation remained unchanged after 2009’s draft lottery. In 2010, NXTenvolved into an evolving developmental territory where it aired its own competition to crown a unified NXT Champion between former NXT Rookie Champions Kaval (“Kofi Kingston”/”:Xavier Woods”), Daniel Bryan (“Brie Bella”), Wade Barrett (“Sheamus”), and current NXT Champion Johnny Gargano (“Tommaso Ciampa”). For several months from late 2010 through early 2011, as part of what has been described as “wrestling’s version of sports entertainment”, all five champions could appear on either brand and defend their respective titles; this led them to be collectively referred to as “The Big Five”. In May 2011 however, it was announced that all future title holders would be exclusive to their respective brands (meaning that they would only ever be able to defend the title on that show) so once again both brands had their own separate world champions (i.e., Sheamus being champion only on Raw while Kofi Kingston was only champion on SmackDown). Sheamus Chamberlin became exclusively associated with Raw while Kingston became exclusively associated with Smackdown until very recently when Kofi won his first Universal Title by defeating ‘The Fiend” Bray Wyatt at Wrestlemania 35 de facto unifying Both Brands’ top Championships..
It is one of the two world titles of the WWE, alongside the WWE Championship that is promoted on the SmackDown brand.
The WWE Universal Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their Raw brand. It is one of the two world titles of the WWE, alongside the WWE Championship that is promoted on the SmackDown brand.
The title was established as a third world championship in 2016, replacing the former WWE World Heavyweight Championship that had been promoted since 2002. The inaugural Universal Champion was Finn Bálor, who defeated Seth Rollins in the finals of a tournament at SummerSlam that year to become champion. Brock Lesnar became champion at WrestleMania 34 in April 2018, agafter defeating Roman Reigns in the main event.
The title is one of two world championships for WWE’s main roster, as opposed to those assigned to its developmental brand NXT (the NXT Championship and the NXT UK Championship). As a result, the title cannot change hands via pinfall or submission anywhere outside of WWE’s main roster events.
The WWE World Heavyweight Championship
The WWE World Heavyweight Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of two world titles in WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for the Raw brand as a result of the 2016 WWE draft.
The WWE World Heavyweight Championship was a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE.
The WWE World Heavyweight Championship was a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE. It was unified with the WWE Intercontinental Championship on August 29, 2016, at SummerSlam, when then-Intercontinental Champion The Miz defeated then-WWE World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler to become the inaugural Unified WWE World Heavyweight Champion. It subsequently became one of two titles, along with the Universal Championship, to be represented by the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Belt until it was decommissioned in favor of the latter in 2016. The final holder was Triple H, who won the title on November 22, 2016, at Survivor Series.
In March 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) purchased World Championship Wrestling (WCW), which promoted its own world heavyweight championship called the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. WWF’s version was vacant for much of 2002 after former champion Mankind was forced to vacate it due to injury. In late August that year, Kurt Angle defeated Rey Mysterio at SummerSlam to win a tournament for the vacant title; he held it until WrestleMania X8 in March 2003, when he lost it to Hollywood Hulk Hogan. The title remained inactive until June 2003 when Brock Lesnar defeated Hollywood Hulk Hogan for it on an episode of SmackDown!. Following Lesnar’s victory and subsequent departure from WWE soon thereafter, debate erupted over who should be recognized as Lesnar’s sole successor as champion due to WWE not having conducted any tournament or coronation ceremony at that point to determine who would face him next for the title. As a result of this situation and Vince McMahon personally recognizing Bill Goldberg as world heavyweight champion during his short stint with WWE in 2003 despite losing his only match in WWE against Lesnar during that time (which resulted in Lesnar leaving shortly thereafter), McMahon retroactively declared Lesnar as only having held one reign as champion and decreed that a new champion would be crowned via tournament at WrestleMania XX, which was won by Eddie Guerrero.
The title remained inactive until 2007 when Brand New Day member Edge defeated The Undertaker at WrestleMania 23 to win it. This made Edge the first person ever to win both world titles still active today (the WCW Title and ECW Title were reactivated later). A tournament took place between April 2 and April 30 that year to determine who would face Edge for various interested promotions around the world such as Pro Wrestling Noah and New Japan Pro Wrestling with each respective winner getting their chance at facing Edge later on down the line; Hiroshi Tanahashi ultimately won this tournament after defeating Naomichi Marufuji in early May 2007 with his match against Edge taking place later that month where he failed to win the title..
At Extreme Rules 2009 during Matt Hardy’s version 1.0 reformation celebration celebration speech where he announced his intentions of going after Jeff Hardy’s WHC belt which Jeff had won earlier that evening, Mr. McMahon came out and stated that because both Hardy brothers had fought so hard throughout their careers and because he wanted them both back full time under contract with WWE
It was one of WWE’s primary championships from 2002 until 2016 when it was unified with the WWE Championship to create the WWE Universal Championship.
The WWE World Heavyweight Championship was one of WWE’s primary championships from 2002 until 2016. The championship was created in 2002 after WWE bought World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It was unified with the WWE Championship in 2016 to create the WWE Universal Championship.
The title was originally known as the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and was established after WCW seceded from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The championship was originally intended to be a world title for WCW’s top heavyweight wrestler. However, due to the popularity of WWF’s Intercontinental and European Championships, WCW decided to make their world title exclusive to their heavyweight division.
The first champion was Triple H, who won a tournament at SummerSlam in 2002. The title quickly became one of WWE’s most prestigious championships, second only to the WWE Championship.
However, in 2016, WWE decided to unify the two titles following the brand extension, which saw Raw and SmackDown become separate entities. The decision was made in order to have only one world champion on each brand. The last holders of the World Heavyweight Championship were Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, who were also the final holders of the WWE Championship.
