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WWE Championship
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:''This article is about the best-known WWE championship, one that was once defended only on the [[WWE Raw|Raw]] [[WWE Brand Extension|brand]] of [[WWE]]. For the newer WWE top championship, once defended only on [[WWE SmackDown|SmackDown]], see [[World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)]].''
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|caption=The WWE Championship belt <br /> (April 11, 2005 – August 20, 2006; September 18, 2006 – present)
(contracted; show full) the winner of this tournament, having defeated Antonino Rocca in the finals. (In reality, no such tournament took place.) Affiliated with the NWA once again, the WWWF was renamed to World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1979. After WWF broke ties again with the NWA in 1983, this time for good, the championship became known as the WWF World Heavyweight Championship and later simply as the WWF (World) Championship by the 1990s.

===Prominence===
 
In 1991, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), another NWA terri
tory, established the WCW World Heavyweight Championship alongside the NWA world title. WCW then left the NWA and grew to become a rival promotion to the WWF. Both groups became popular with the general public, and then were involved in a television ratings war, dubbed the Monday Night Wars. Near the end of the ratings war, WCW began a financial decline, which ended in March 2001 with the WWF's purchase of WCW.[1] With this purchase, WWF now owned the video library of WCW, select talent contracts, and c(contracted; show full)[[pt:WWE Championship]]
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