Who’s the WWE Champion Now?
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As of August 20, 2019, the WWE Champion is Kofi Kingston.
WWE Basics
The WWE is a professional wrestling organization that is based out of America. It is the biggest wrestling organization in the world and has a very large fan base. The WWE produces weekly television shows, monthly pay-per-view events, and live events all throughout the year. The WWE also has a very large social media presence with millions of followers.
What is the WWE?
The WWE, otherwise known as World Wrestling Entertainment, is a global entertainment company that specializes in professional wrestling. It is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The company has many different television programs, live events, digital products, publications, and feature films.
What are the WWE’s main championships?
WWE currently has five main championships for women and men. They are:
-WWE Universal Championship
-WWE Championship
-WWE Raw Women’s Championship
-WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship
-WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship
All of these championships are currently held by men, with the exception of the WWE Raw Women’s Championship, which is held by Becky Lynch.
How often are WWE championships defended?
A WWE championship is defended on average once every 21 days, but this can vary depending on the title. For example, the WWE Universal Championship is currently being defended once every 30 days, while the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships are being defended once every 14 days.
The WWE Champion
The WWE Champion is the professional wrestling world heavyweight championship of WWE. It is one of the promotion’s two world titles, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was introduced on WWE’s Raw brand in 2016. The title is currently held by Drew McIntyre, who is in his second reign.
Who is the current WWE Champion?
The current WWE Champion is Kofi Kingston. He won the title at WrestleMania 35 by defeating Daniel Bryan.
How did they become WWE Champion?
While it may seem like WWE Champions are simply crowned, there is actually a process that superstars must go through in order to win the WWE Championship.
In order to become WWE Champion, a superstar must first earn a place in a championship match by winning what is called a “title match.” There are several ways to become eligible for a title match, which we will explore below.
Once a superstar has earned their place in a championship match, they must then win the match in order to become WWE Champion. The only way to do this is by pinning or forcing your opponent to submit.
Now that we know how WWE Champions are crowned, let’s take a look at some of the ways superstars can earn their place in a championship match.
Who have they defended the WWE Championship against?
Since the WWE Championship was first introduced in 1963, there have been a total of 73 different champions. The title has been defended against some of the biggest names in professional wrestling, including Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and John Cena.
The WWE Universal Champion
The WWE Universal Champion 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 two world titles, alongside the WWE Championship on the Raw brand. The current champion is Drew McIntyre, who is in his first reign.
Who is the current WWE Universal Champion?
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, alongside the WWE Championship on the Raw brand. The current champion is “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt, who is in his first reign.
The title was established as WWE’s second world championship at SummerSlam in 2016 when then-WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeated Raw’s inaugural champion Seth Rollins to unify the two titles. The following year, it switched brands when Lesnar defeatedthen-WWE Universal Champion Bill Goldberg at WrestleMania 33 to become the inaugural champion of Raw. Amalgamating Preparedness
In May 2020, following the reintroduction of the brand extension, it was announced that the title would return to SmackDown as part of a trade between then-Raw Women’s Champion RAW Becky Lynch and then-SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair.
How did they become WWE Universal Champion?
The most recent WWE Universal Champion is Brock Lesnar. He won the title at the 2018 Crown Jewel event by defeating Braun Strowman. Lesnar previously held the WWE Universal Championship for 504 days, from April 2, 2017 (WrestleMania 33) to August 19, 2018 (SummerSlam).
Lesnar is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and is currently signed to WWE on a part-time contract. He is also a former NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.
Who have they defended the WWE Universal Championship against?
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 two world titles for WWE’s main roster, alongside the WWE Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Brock Lesnar, who is in his second reign. He defeated Roman Reigns in the main event of WrestleMania 34 to become champion, becoming only the second superstar (after Goldberg) to have won both the Universal and WWE Championships.
The Universal Championship was established on July 25, 2016, when then-WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins defeated Dean Ambrose in the opening match of that year’s Battleground pay-per-view to unify both titles. The inaugural champion was Finn Bálor, who became the first trap king in history by defeating Rollins later that same night at SummerSlam; however, he had to vacate it due to injury the following night on Raw.
Since its inception, there have been a total of eleven champions, with Lesnar being the only one to have won it more than once. The title has had seven reigns by African American wrestlers (Lesnar twice and once each by Rollins, Bálor, Reigns, Big E, and Kofi Kingston), making it one of WWE’s most racially diverse world championships in history. Lesnar has spent the most time as champion at 490 days (the duration of his first reign), while Kingston holds the record for shortest reign at 22 days (during his second reign).
As of October 2019, there have been twenty-four title defenses.
The WWE Women’s Champion
The WWE Women’s Championship is currently held by Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey. Rousey defeated Nia Jax at WrestleMania 34 to become champion. She is the first woman to win both the Raw Women’s Championship and the WWE Women’s Championship.
Who is the current WWE Women’s Champion?
The current WWE Women’s Champion is Charlotte Flair. Charlotte is a former WWE Divas Champion and NXT Women’s Champion. She is the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair.
How did they become WWE Women’s Champion?
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The WWE Women’s Champion is a title held by the professional wrestling promotion WWE. The title was created in 2008, and was first won by Mickie James.
The title is currently held by Becky Lynch, who is in her second reign. She won the title by defeating Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey in a triple threat match at WrestleMania 35.
Who have they defended the WWE Women’s Championship against?
Since the WWE Women’s Championship was established in 1956, there have been a total of 54 different women who have held the title for a combined 398 individual reigns. Only six women have won the title more than once, and only three women have had multiple reigns in a single year. The longest single reign belonged to Trish Stratus, who held the title for seven years, while the shortest was that of Mae Young, who held it for less than one day. Molly Holly is the only woman to have held the WWE Women’s Championship and the Hardcore Championship simultaneously.
The inaugural champion was The Fabulous Moolah, who won a tournament at Madison Square Garden to become the first ever holder of the title. Moolah went on to hold the title for an unprecedented 28 years and had what is recognized as the longest combined reign in WWE history at 11 years. In 1984, Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah to end her second reign and begin her own, which lasted 133 days before she was defeated by Leilani Kai.Richter regained the title from Kai two months later and held it for another two months before losing it to The Fabulous Moolah in a controversial match that saw Richter’s manager,Cyndi Lauper, interfere on her behalf.
The WWE Tag Team Champions
The WWE Tag Team Champions are a professional wrestling tag team who are currently the Tag Team Champions of WWE. The team consists of Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman. They are the current reigning champions, having won the titles on August 19, 2019.
Who are the current WWE Tag Team Champions?
As of June 25, 2018, The Bludgeon Brothers (Harper and Rowan) are the current WWE Tag Team Champions. They defeated The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view event to win the title.
How did they become WWE Tag Team Champions?
The WWE Tag Team Champions are the SmackDown Tag Team Champions, The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Big E), who are in their record-setting sixth reign. They are also the first (and so far only) tag team in history to hold both the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships simultaneously, a feat they accomplished by defeating then-Raw Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman at WrestleMania 35.
Who have they defended the WWE Tag Team Championship against?
The WWE Tag Team Champions have defended the championship against former champions The Miz and John Morrison, Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode, The New Day (consisting of Xavier Woods and Big E), The Revival (Dawson and Wilder), Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic and Tucker Knight), Braun Strowman and Nicholas, amongst others.
