Who Is the Current WWE Champion?

The current WWE Champion is Drew McIntyre.

The 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 top titles. The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign.

The WWE Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand.

The title was introduced in 1963 by the then-world heavyweight champion, Bruno Sammartino, and it is considered the oldest active professional wrestling championship in the world. With a unifying lineage tracing back to the first world heavyweight champion, Wladek Zbyszko, the WWE Championship evolved from being a National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) title defended throughout North America to WWE’s world heavyweight championship.

The championship is currently held by Kofi Kingston, who is in his second reign. He won the title by defeating Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35. The title has been defended outside of WWE’s regular programming; most notably in International – World Wrestling Entertainment events in 2005 and 2006.

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 champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign.

The title was established under WWE’s then-doiNgf-branded subsidiary Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in September 1992 as a TV title for ECW’s weekly TV show. When ECW was closed down in 2001, its titles were unified with those of Raw to form one set of world titles for the whole company, and ECW’s TV title was subsequently abandoned. The championship underwent several name changes as a result of WWE’s various programming changes and rebrandings, including being referred to as “the Undisputed WWE Championship” during parts of 2002 and 2003 (while also being defended on both brands), as well as simply “the WWE Championship” during parts of 2006—and again in 2016 following that year’s brand extension. The title has also been referred to as “the WWE World Heavyweight Championship”, “the World Heavyweight Championship”, or simply as “the World Title” during various points in its history, making it one of seven currently active championships that have been promoted under four different names (including their current namesakes).

In June 2016 when then-WWE Champion Dean Ambrose was drafted to SmackDown during that year’s draft while the title itself stayed on Raw, it effectively split into two separate titles: the original championship became exclusive to SmackDown while a new championship–the WWE Universal Championship–was created for Raw; this situation lasted until Ambrose returned the title to Raw in August 2016 following his injury. As a result of this situation, there have technically been three separate incarnations of the title: one for each brand between June 2016 and August 2016; and one shared between both brands from August 2016 onwards.

The current WWE Champion

As of right now, the current WWE Champion is Drew McIntyre. He is a Scottish professional wrestler signed to WWE. He is also the first British singles champion in WWE history. McIntyre became champion by defeating Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 36.

The current WWE Champion is Kofi Kingston, who is in his second reign. He won the title by defeating Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35.

Kofi Kingston is a Ghanaian-American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE. He is performing on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Kofi Kingston, where he is one-half of the current WWE Tag Team Champions with Xavier Woods in their second reign. He is also a former WWE United States Champion and a former WWE Intercontinental Champion.

In his eleven-year career with WWE, Kingston has won fourteen championships: the WWE Championship once, the WWE United States Championship once, the WWE Intercontinental Championship three times, the WWE Tag Team Championship six times – all with different partners – and is a two-time Hardcore Champion.

The history of the 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 the two world titles of the WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that is promoted on the Raw brand. The current WWE Champion is Brock Lesnar, who is in his first reign.

The WWE Championship was first introduced in 1963 as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) World Heavyweight Championship.

In its original incarnation, it was a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), which existed from 1948 to 1963. The inaugural champion was Buddy Rogers, who defeated Pat O’Connor in a tournament final that was held on April 25, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In 1979, the title was renamed the World Heavyweight Championship when the NWA pedigree was dropped due to the WWWF becoming a member of the rival World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF). In 1983, Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff became the first WWF World Heavyweight Champion after defeating The Iron Sheik for the vacant title on April 30.

When Vince McMahon bought out the WWF in March of 2002, he united both his company’s world titles (the then-World Heavyweight Championship and WWWF Championship) under one banner: the Undisputed WWE Championship. Although they were collectively referred to as “world” championships, they were not promoted as such; rather, they were simply two separate titles defended in different ways that both ultimately led to one Undisputed WWE Champion. Thus began an era where there was only one world champion in WWE.

Triple H became the final Undisputed WWE Champion on December 15, when he defeated Chris Jericho in WWE’s first-ever Undisputed Title match at Vengeance. Afterwards, both world titles were returned to their original names and lineage; Jericho became the first-ever undisputed World Heavyweight Champion while Triple H became WWE Champion once again.

The title was then unified with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 2001, following the WWF’s purchase of World Championship Wrestling.

The title was then unified with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 2001, following the WWF’s purchase of World Championship Wrestling. The title has been defended in every WWE RAW and SmackDown live event since its creation, as well as at Survivor Series and WrestleMania in alternate years (WrestleMania being the biggest Raw-branded pay-per-view). It is also defended on all WWE Network programs.

Since 2017, it has been exclusive to the Raw brand, as all WWE champions are determined by fan voting via WWE’s website.

In 2019, the title was won by Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 35. He holds the record for the most reigns with six.

The title was then split in two in 2002, with the title on SmackDown being renamed the WWE Championship, while the title on Raw became the World Heavyweight 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 division. It is one of WWE’s three primary titles, along with the Universal Championship on the SmackDown brand and the NXT Championship on the NXT brand.

The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign. He defeated Brock Lesnar for the title at WrestleMania 36.

The title was first introduced in 1963 as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) World Heavyweight Championship, and it became widely recognized as the top championship in professional wrestling. The title was then split in two in 2002, with the title on SmackDown being renamed the WWE Championship, while the title on Raw became the World Heavyweight Championship. In 2013, WWE unification resulted in both titles having equal status and either champion could appear and defend their title on any WWE brand.

The inaugural champion was Buddy Rogers, who won a tournament to become the first WWWF World Heavyweight Champion following WWWF’s split fromthe National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Various reigning championship teams have since held the title for record lengths of time including Bruno Sammartino’s second reign which lasted for 2,803 days—the longest championship reign of any wrestler in WWWF/WWE history; Hulk Hogan’s first reign which lasted for 469 days; The Rock’s only reign as champion which lasted for 358 days; Bob Backlund’s second reign which lasted for 2 years and 212 days; Stone Cold Steve Austin’s third reign which lasted for 1 year and 27 days; Bruno Sammartino’s sixth reign which lasted for 1 year and 1 day; Bret Hart’s fifth rein which lasted 970 days—the longest championship run of anyone during The Attitude Era—and Brock Lesnar ‘s fourth rein as champion which also lasted 970 days &mdash making it one of only two times that two different superstars have held identical championship runs.

The title was unified again in 2013, when the World Heavyweight Championship was retired and the WWE Championship became the sole world championship of WWE.

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 WWE’s original championships, dating back to 1963.

The current champion is Brock Lesnar, who is in his first reign. He won the championship by defeating AJ Styles at Survivor Series on November 18, 2018.

The title was unified in 2013, when the World Heavyweight Championship was retired and the WWE Championship became the sole world championship of WWE.