List of WWE Champions
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List of WWE Champions
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The WWE Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in WWE, currently defended on the SmackDown brand. It was the first world title established in WWE, at the time known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), having been introduced in 1963 as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship. The WWWF, a National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory, did not recognize Lou Thesz's victory over reigning NWA champion Buddy Rogers and sought to create its own world title upon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWE_Champions
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2004-05-30T00:05:51Z
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2024-09-08T07:41:30Z
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