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El Canuck's Wrestling Trivia Quiz #2: The WWE Championship
Long considered to be the 'Big One' of professional wrestling championships, the WWE World Championship has a storied history dating back to 1963, when promoters Toots Mondt and Vince McMahon Sr. left the NWA to form Capitol Wrestling. From then to WWWF, WWF and on to WWE, the World Championship, no matter which initials came before it, has persevered to this day. Your ol' pal El Canuck has drawn up some trivia about that legendary lineage, let's see what you know.
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1. On January 25th, '25 episode of Saturday Night's Main Event Cody Rhodes, as WWE champion, and fitting with the retro theme of the show, had with him the classic, 'Winged Eagle' version of the WWE championship to go with the current version of the championship. Who stole the 'Winged Eagle' version of the belt from him?
Seth Rollins
Kevin Owens
Roman Reigns
Drew McIntyre
2. When the now-WWE split from the NWA in 1963, they crowned Buddy Rogers as their first champion after he lost his NWA World Heavyweight championship. The reason given was that promoters Toots Mondt and Vince McMahon Sr. believed that the new NWA champion was not a strong draw and refused to recognize him as the World's champion. Who was the NWA champion that they were referring to?
Orville Brown
Pat O'Connor
Dick Hutton
Lou Thesz
3. Which wrestler modified the "Spinner" design of the belt so that the spinning, WWE "scratch" logo was in a fixed, upside-down position?
The Miz
Triple H
John Morrison
Mark Henry
4. Who was the first wrestler to win the WWE Championship via the cashing in of a Money in the Bank briefcase?
Edge
Jeff Hardy
Rob Van Dam
JBL
5. Which wrestler stole the WWE Championship belt from Hulk Hogan on a Saturday Night's Main Event episode in November of 1989 and proceeded to smash it to pieces with a hammer?
Mr. Perfect
"Ravishing" Rick Rude
"Macho Man" Randy Savage
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
6. Years after the above belt was destroyed, a similar*, smashed-up, 'Winged Eagle' WWE Championship belt was repurposed into an entirely new championship. What was the name of that championship? *(Long rumoured to be the same physical belt, it's been confirmed that they were indeed separate iterations of the 'Winged Eagle')
WWE did have a 24/7 Championship, but it had its own, fully intact design. The Brawl-For-All was a tournament and the prize trophy was an over-sized pair of golden gloves. One of the early ECW World title designs from the ECW original days was similar to the 'Winged Eagle', but was fully intact, as were later versions both in the original ECW and in WWE's iteration.
WWE 24/7 Championship
WWE Hardcore Championship
WWE Brawl-For-All Championship
ECW World Heavyweight
7. At which WrestleMania did Kofi Kingston win his first (and to date only) WWE Championship?
WrestleMania 34
WrestleMania 35
WrestleMania 36
WrestleMania 37
8. Which of the following wrestlers was the first (by chronological date, not age) to win the WWE Championship?
Lesnar's first reign was on 9/16/03, Cena's on 5/3/05, Orton's on 10/7/07, and Batista's on 6/7/09. Both Orton and Batista won the other World Heavyweight Championship before winning the WWE Championship.
Randy Orton
John Cena
Brock Lesnar
Batista
9. Andre "The Giant" is recognized as a WWE Champion, but his reign is noted as lasting less than a day. Why was that?
Hulk Hogan invoked his rematch clause immediately, Andre refused, and the title was vacated.
Andre broke his arm during the match and had to immediately forfeit the title.
Andre was leaving to film The Princess Bride, and since he would not be able to defend within 30 days, he pre-emptively forfeited the title.
Andre gifted the title to Ted Dibiase, but the gifting was disallowed and the title vacated.
10. Which wrestler carried their own, unique version of the WWE Championship that was said to be made from "entirely sustainable materials", such as a hempen belt strap, wooden plates carved from a naturally fallen tree, and other organically sourced materials?
Daniel Bryan
CM Punk
Rob Van Dam
Seth Rollins
11. Which Japanese wrestling legend defeated the then-WWE Champion in Japan in a sanctioned match, but has since had his championship win disregarded by WWE, rendering him a phantom champion?
Inoki defeated Bob Backlund on Nov. 30, '79. Backlund defeated Inoki in a rematch six days later, but the match was delcared no contest due to interference from Tiger Jeet Singh. Inoki refused to claim the title, it was vacated, and Backlund won the vacant belt in a match with Bobby Duncum Sr. WWE does not recognize these events, and Backlund's reign from this time is considered uninterrerupted.
Giant Baba
Antonio Inoki
Tatsumi Fujinami
Masa Saito
12. What sports team was the first to receive an official replica of the WWE Championship as a gift from the WWE for winning the respective championship of their own sport?
While WWE has gifted championships to many sports teams/people since then, the Giant's 2014 World Series win was the first to be awarded such.
New England Patriots
Golden State Warriors
San Francisco Giants
Cleveland Cavaliers
13. Which of these World Championships WAS NOT absorbed into the WWE Championship?
The AWA World championship and the WWE world championship both originated as offshoots of the NWA World title, but the AWA title was never absorbed into the WWE title. While WWE did acquire the tape library and certain other rights to the American Wrestling Association, their world championship, and the promotion itself, were long defunct by that point.
AWA World Championship
WCW World Championship
WWE Universal Championship
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002-2013)
14. While the Royal Rumble winner is typically awarded a WrestleMania title shot at a World-tier championship (if there's more than one title, the winner must choose between them), one Royal Rumble match awarded the championship itself as the prize. Who won that Royal Rumble?
It was Royal Rumble 1992. Prior to '92, a Royal Rumble victory was for bragging rights only. The right to challenge for a world championship at WrestleMania began at Royal Rumble '93.
Bret Hart
Hulk Hogan
Yokozuna
Ric Flair
15. Which version of the WWE Championship belt was in use when CM Punk won his first WWE Championship?
CM Punk won his first championship from John Cena at Money in the Bank 2011. Cena, and WWE, were still using the "Spinner" version of the championship as the primary design.
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