Who Are The Current Title Holders In WWE?
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The current WWE World Heavyweight Champion is Brock Lesnar, while the WWE Universal Champion is Goldberg. The WWE United States Champion is Kevin Owens, the WWE Intercontinental Champion is The Miz, and the WWE Cruiserweight Champion is Rich Swann.
WWE Universal Championship
The WWE Universal 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 for WWE’s main roster, along with the WWE Championship on the Raw brand. The current champion is Brock Lesnar, who is in his second reign.
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar is the current WWE Universal Champion. He is also a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Lesnar is a six-time WWE World Champion and a four-time WWE Universal Champion.
Goldberg
Goldberg is a former two-time WWE Universal Champion, having held the title for a combined 70 days. He defeated Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series in November 2016 to win the title, but lost it back to Lesnar at WrestleMania 34 the following year. He then regained the title from “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt at Super ShowDown in February 2020, before losing it back to Wyatt at WrestleMania 36.
WWE Championship
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 WWE’s original titles and is the oldest championship currently active in the company.
AJ Styles
AJ Styles (real name Allen Jones) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. He is currently in his second reign as the WWE Champion, and is also the United States Champion.
Styles debuted in 1998 and competed predominantly on the independent circuit throughout his early career, before eventually signing with WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation) in 2002. He later left WWE in 2006 and joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he became TNA World Heavyweight Champion on three occasions. In 2014, Styles returned to WWE, initially appearing on its developmental brand NXT before joining the company’s main roster later that year. He has since gone on to become one of WWE’s most prolific wrestlers, having won numerous championships and accolades throughout his career.
In 2016, Styles became only the second wrestler (after Brock Lesnar) to winSinglesChampionchampionandWWE Championshipin his first year with the company. In 2017, he won his first Royal Rumble match and went on to headline that year’s WrestleMania 33 event, defeating Shane McMahon in a singles match.
John Cena
As of right now, the current WWE Champion is John Cena. He has held the title for a total of 13 times throughout his career.
WWE Raw Women’s Championship
The WWE Raw Women’s Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It is one of the two women’s titles among WWE’s main roster, along with the SmackDown Women’s Championship on the SmackDown brand.
Alexa Bliss
Alexa Bliss is the current WWE Raw Women’s Champion. She defeated Charlotte Flair to win the title at WWE SummerSlam 2017. Bliss is a former two-time WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion, and she is also a former NXT Women’s Champion.
Sasha Banks
Sasha Banks (born Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado; January 26, 1992) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE under the ring name Sasha Banks,performing on the Raw brand. She is a former NXT Women’s Champion, as well as a one-time Divas Champion and a one-time Raw Women’s Champion.
Banks was born in Fairfield, California, but her family later moved to Boston, Massachusetts. She was introduced to wrestling by her cousin Snoop Dogg, and began watching it at the age of four. After graduating from Boston Arts Academy in 2010, she worked several jobs including being a personal trainer before signing with WWE in 2012. She spent two years in WWE’s developmental brand NXT before she was called up to the main roster in 2015 as part of the first ever draft. In July 2016 at Battleground, Banks won her first WWE Raw Women’s Championship; she went on to hold it twice more before losing it in April 2017 at WrestleMania 33.
WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship
The WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship is a professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of two female championships for WWE’s main roster, along with the WWE Raw Women’s Championship on the Raw brand.
Becky Lynch
Becky Lynch is an Irish professional wrestler who is currently signed to WWE under the ring name Becky Lynch, performing on the SmackDown brand. Lynch is a former Raw Women’s Champion and SmackDown Women’s Champion. She is also a former two-time SmackDown Women’s Champion, making her the first woman in WWE history to hold the title on more than one occasion.
Carmella
Carmella is the current WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion. She won the title on April 8, 2018, at WrestleMania 34. Carmella is the first and only woman to hold the title twice.
WWE United Kingdom Championship
The WWE United Kingdom Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the United Kingdom-based brand NXT. The title is contested for by professional wrestlers who are assigned to the NXT UK brand.
Pete Dunne
Pete Dunne is a British professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT UK brand. He is the current WWE United Kingdom Champion in his second reign. Dunne also won the PROGRESS Championship, making him a double champion in UK professional wrestling.
Tyler Bate
Tyler Bate is the current WWE United Kingdom Champion. He is a member of the Moustache Mountain tag team, alongside Trent Seven.
Bate made his professional wrestling debut in May 2016, at an Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) show. On 29 November 2016, it was announced that Bate would be one of sixteen participants in a tournament to crown the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion, which took place over two nights in Blackpool on 14 and 15 January 2017. Bate defeated Trent Seven in the final to become the inaugural champion. He successfully retained the title against Pete Dunne at NXT TakeOver: Chicago on 20 May.
