World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. [10]
WWE personnel consists of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, ring announcers, interviewers, referees, trainers, producers, script writers, and various other positions.
WWE's origins can be traced back as far as the 1950s when on January 7, 1953, the first show under the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC) was produced. There is some uncertainty as to who the founder of the CWC was.
When WWE Champion Randy Orton defeated World Heavyweight Champion John Cena at the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view event on December 15, 2013, in a Tables, ladders, and chairs match, the World Heavyweight Championship was unified with the WWE Championship, resulting in the retiring of the former, [7] as well as the renaming of the ...
WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Stamford, Connecticut, and the world's largest promotion. As with other professional wrestling promotions, WWE promotes several championships, with titleholders typically determined via the results of professional wrestling matches within scripted storylines. On rare occasions, a ...
In 2011, the company rebranded itself as WWE, although its legal name is still World Wrestling Entertainment. On April 3, 2023, the WWE and Endeavor agreed that the WWE and Zuffa (Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC's parent company) would merge to create TKO Group Holdings and would be going public on the New York Stock Exchange. [6]
After the unveiling of the Universal title, the WWE Championship was renamed WWE World Championship, [25] [26] but reverted to WWE Championship in December 2016 during AJ Styles' first reign. [ 27 ] The title changed hands for the first time outside of North America when AJ Styles defeated Jinder Mahal to win his second WWE Championship in ...
A women's Royal Rumble match was introduced in 2018, with the winner receiving the option of challenging for either the WWE Raw Women's Championship or WWE SmackDown Women's Championship, which were renamed as the WWE Women's Championship and Women's World Championship, respectively, in June 2023.
2014年1月8日 · WWE attracts major mainstream media attention when NFL football great Lawrence Taylor battles, and defeats, Bam Bam Bigelow in the WrestleMania XI main event. In other action, The Undertaker’s WrestleMania Streak moves to 4-0 with a win over King Kong Bundy. (MORE ABOUT WRESTLEMANIA XI) 1996
WWE Raw, also known as Monday Night Raw or simply Raw, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It currently airs live every Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on USA Network. The show features characters from the Raw brand, to which WWE employees are assigned to work and perform.