[tps_title]The WWE Championship![/tps_title]
WWE Championship (April 25, 1963 – Present)
Now that all the pre-history is out of the way, we’ve finally arrived at the star of the show: the WWE Championship.
As noted a few slides back, the first incarnation of the WWE Championship, the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship, was created on April 25, 1963 and awarded to “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers, whom WWWF executives believed was still the true heavyweight champion.
Since then, the championship has been called by a ton of different names, gone through a ton of different redesigns, and passed through a ton of different hands. Throughout the remaining slides, I’ll highlight some of the more notable incarnations and champions to hold this beloved title.