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This article covers all primary championships contested in WWE throughout its history, not those acquired by the company and never contested under its banner, although WWE may recognize some titles from outside the company for championship records.

WWE's inaugural world champion, Buddy Rogers, who became the WWWF World Heavyweight Champion in 1963, a title that is now known as the WWE Championship.

The American professional wrestling promotion WWE has maintained several primary championships since Capitol Wrestling Corporation seceded from the National Wrestling Alliance in 1963 to become the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), which was later subjected to various name changes, including World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)—in April 2011, the company ceased using its full name and has since just been referred to as WWE. The company's first world championship was the WWE Championship, which was established along with the promotion's creation in 1963 as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship; it is still active today and is WWE's oldest active title. Whenever the WWE brand extension has been implemented (2002–2011; 2016–present), separate world championships have been created or allocated for each brand.

As of 2024, WWE promotes four men's and three women's primary championships. Two of the men's championships, the WWE Championship and the WWE Universal Championship, are held and defended together as the Undisputed WWE Championship on the SmackDown brand. The third is the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw. The fourth is the NXT Championship on NXT. The women's championships include the Women's World Championship on Raw, the WWE Women's Championship on SmackDown and the NXT Women's Championship on NXT.

Overview of titles

Male

No.	Name	Years
1	WWE Championship	1963–present
2	WCW Championship	1991–2001 (became WWF property in 2001)
3	ECW Championship	1994–2001, 2006–2010 (became WWE property in 2003)
4	World Heavyweight Championship (original version)	2002–2013
5	WWE Universal Championship	2016–present
6	World Heavyweight Championship (current version)	2023–present

Male's Developmental

No.	Name	Years
1	NXT Championship	2012 – present
2	NXT Cruiserweight Championship	2016 – 2022
3	NXT United Kingdom Championship	2017 – 2022

Female

Name	Years
WWF Women's Championship (original version)	1956 – 2010 (became WWF property in 1984)
WWE Divas Championship	2008 – 2016
WWE Women's Championship (current version)	2016 – present
Women's World Championship	2016 – present

Female's Developmental

Name	Years
NXT Women's Championship	2013 – present
NXT UK Women's Championship	2018 – 2022