Who Is The WWE Raw Champion?

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WWE Raw Championship

As of June 29th, 2020, the WWE Raw Championship is held by Drew McIntyre. McIntyre won the championship by defeating Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 36.

Who is the WWE Raw Champion?

As of September 2019, the WWE Raw Champion is “The Architect” Seth Rollins. He defeated Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam to become a 2-time WWE Raw Champion.

How often does the WWE Raw Championship change hands?

The WWE Raw Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It is one of the two top championships in WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for their other main roster brand SmackDown. The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign.

The title was established as the WWWF Heavyweight Championship on April 29, 1963, when Bruno Sammartino defeated Buddy Rogers to become the inaugural champion. It became known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) Heavyweight Championship when Vincent J. McMahon’s World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) seceded from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1963. The title was then renamed the WWF Heavyweight Championship in 1979 when the WWWF became known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF). When WWEUndisputed Champion Chris Jericho defeated The Rock and Steve Austin in a triple threat match at Vengeance 2001 to unify both titles, it became officially known as the Undisputed WWF Championship until May 6, 2002 when Jericho lost it back to Austin in a No Disqualification match at Backlash. The name was reverted back to World Heavyweight Championship upon WWE’s separation from WCW and acquisition of its assets in 2001; however, it became exclusive to SmackDown! after 2002 until December 15, 2013. In 2016, then-WWE Raw General Manager Mick Foley proposed renaming it back to “WWF Heavyweight Championship”, which Triple H ultimately vetoed due to fan backlash over retaining references to a defunct rival promotion. As SmackDown! was split from Raw into its own separate brand at WrestleMania 34 on April 8, 2018, a separateRaw-exclusive world championship – namely the Universal Championship – was created for that brand by unifying both the former world titles of that brand: Dean Ambrose’s WWE World Heavyweight Championship and Brock Lesnar’s WWE Universal Championship; this resulted in withdrawing recognition of Lesnar as champion and deactivatingofthe title until Ambrose won it 24 hours later. A tournament was then held at he 2018MMCpecial Greatest Royal Rumble event for Reactivatedtheduring championship with Braun Strowman emerging victorious; however n June 17at2018 MoneyInThe Bank event AJ Styles defeated Rusev forthetitletobecomethenewchampion .

WWE SmackDown Championship

The WWE SmackDown 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 the two top championships of WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for the Raw brand as a result of the 2016 WWE draft. The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign.

Who is the WWE SmackDown Champion?

The WWE SmackDown 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 WWE’s two world titles, alongside the WWE Championship on Raw. The current champion is AJ Styles, who is in his second reign.

The title was introduced in 1999 as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) SmackDown! Tag Team Championship, a tag team title for wrestlers who appeared on the WWF’s weekly TV show, SmackDown!. After being unified with the WWF Tag Team Championship in 2001, it became exclusive to SmackDown! in 2002 and was renamed to its current name later that year. As a result of the 2016 draft, it became exclusive to Raw and was renamed to the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship. A new championship, simply named the WWE Tag Team Championship, was introduced for both brands.

The title history of the SmackDown Tag Team Championship began when it was created as the WWF SmackDown! Tag Team Championship on August 26, 1999. It was originally won by The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) at SummerSlam that year when they defeated Edge and Christian in a Ladder match.

How often does the WWE SmackDown Championship change hands?

Generally speaking, the WWE SmackDown Championship changes hands much more frequently than the WWE Raw Championship.

The reason for this is that, while the WWE Raw roster is made up of full-time wrestlers who are contracted to appear on Raw every week, the WWE SmackDown roster consists of a mix of full-time and part-time wrestlers. This means that there are more opportunities for fresh matchups and new storylines on SmackDown, which in turn leads to the SmackDown Championship changing hands more often.

WWE Universal Championship

The WWE Universal Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It is one of WWE’s two world titles, alongside the WWE Championship on the SmackDown brand. The current champion is Keith Lee, who is in his first reign.

Who is the WWE Universal Champion?

The WWE Universal Championship is a world heavyweight professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their Raw brand. It is one of two world titles for WWE’s main roster, alongside the WWE Championship on the SmackDown brand. The current universal champion is Brock Lesnar, who is in his first reign.

The title was introduced at SummerSlam in 2016 and became exclusive to Raw as a result of the 2016 draft, which featured a brand extension. The title is one of WWE’s three world championships, along with the WWE Championship and the now-defunct World Heavyweight Championship, which merged into the Universal Championship in 2013.

The inaugural universal champion was Finn Bálor, who became champion at SummerSlam after defeating Seth Rollins in the tournament final. Bálor was forced to vacate the title due to injury just one day later, making Rollins the inaugural champions under his new name; “The Architect”.

How often does the WWE Universal Championship change hands?

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 two world titles for WWE’s main roster, alongside the WWE Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his second reign.

WWE introduced the NXT Championship—which shared its name with WWE’s developmental brand—to be the top title of its NXT developmental brand on July 1, 2012, at a live television taping of NXT. It served as a tertiary title until December 15, 2013, when WWE discontinued the title and split NXT’s roster into two distinct divisions: NXT and NXT UK.

The Universal Championship was created as a direct result of that decision, being unveiled on the same night as the newly established WWE World Heavyweight Championship and thus becoming WWE’s primary world championship. Although it has been called a “world” championship, it has only been defended in seven countries outside North America: Australia (twice), China (once), England (six times), Italy (three times), Malaysia (once), Mexico (four times) , and South Africa (once).

WWE NXT Championship

The WWE NXT Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their NXT brand. It is contested for by male wrestlers who are billed as NXT Superstars. It is one of the two top championships in NXT, along with the NXT Women’s Championship, which is contested for by female wrestlers.

Who is the WWE NXT Champion?

The WWE NXT Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their NXT brand. It is one of two secondary championships for WWE’s NXT brand, complementing the NXT Women’s Championship. The title was introduced at a live event in 2012, and then debuted on WWE’s developmental television program NXT in 2013. The inaugural champion was Bo Dallas.

The title is currently held byandi, who is in his second reign. He defeated Adam Cole to win the vacant title at NXT TakeOver: XXV on June 1, 2019.

How often does the WWE NXT Championship change hands?

The WWE NXT Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their NXT brand. It is one of three secondary championships in WWE, complementing the WWE Universal Championship on Raw and the WWE Championship on SmackDown. As of June 2020, it is also one of two NXT Championships for male competitors, alongside the NXT North American Championship. It is currently held by Keith Lee.

Inaugurated as the top title of the NXT brand in 2012, it replaced WWE’s previous developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling’s top championship when WWE rebranded that territory into NXT that year. The inaugural champion was Seth Rollins. Like other professional wrestling championships, it is won as a result of a pre-determined match. There have been thirteen reigns among twelve different wrestlers. Keith Lee has had the longest reign at 153 days while Finn Bálor has had the shortest at 14 days (not counting Drew McIntyre’s first reign which lasted less than one day). Samoa Joe’s first reign remains the title’s longest at 523 days while Bo Dallas’ second reign remains its shortest since its reintroduction in 2017 at 44 days