Championship Roll Call

December 6, 6:33 PMPro Wrestling ExaminerMark Satrang

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Pro wrestling isn’t a real sport. Go ahead, I’ll wait so you can let that sink in for a minute. But one of the fun illusions of wrestling as a sport is that advent of championships that are “won and lost” in the spirit of competition.

World Wrestling Entertainment, divided between its three television shows and three touring groups, boasts a total of nine championships. Each of their shows has their own Heavyweight champion, plus both RAW and SmackDown! have a tag championship, a women’s championship and a “secondary” title, which is for wrestlers who aren’t quite yet to the main even level. The RAW television show features the Intercontinental Championship while the SmackDown! show features the United States Championship.

As for TNA Wrestling, their company features a World Heavyweight Title, a woman’s title, a tag championship and the “X-Division” Championship, which is essentially their belt for the lighter weight, fast, high-flying wrestlers.

Titles are defended regularly, usually on television and pay per view monthly, and whenever the companies put on non-televised events. It’s not like a boxing or mixed martial arts championship where Titles are defended only every few months. In fact the wrestling “rule book” states a championship needs to be defended every thirty days.

So what I expect to be a recurring feature, here is a look at a current champions roll call for both WWE and TNA.

World Wrestling Entertainment

World Heavyweight Champion
John Cena
14 day reign
defeated Chris Jericho on November 23 at the “Survivor Series” pay per view
next scheduled title defense: versus Chris Jericho on December 14 at the “Armageddon” pay per view

WWE Champion
Edge
14 day reign
defeated Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov in a “triple threat match” on November 23 at the “Survivor Series” pay per view
next scheduled title defense: versus Triple H and Jeff Hardy in a “triple threat match” on December 14 at the “Armageddon” pay per view

ECW Heavyweight Champion
Matt Hardy
91 day reign
won a “Championship Scramble” on September 7 at the “Unforgiven” pay per view

WWE Intercontinental Champion
William Regal
27 day reign
defeated Santino Marella on the November 10 edition of Monday Night RAW

WWE United States Champion
Shelton Benjamin
140 day reign
defeated Matt Hardy on July 20 at “The Great American Bash” pay per view

World Tag Team Champions
CM Punk and Kofi Kingston
40 day reign
defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, Jr. on the October 28 edition of Monday Night RAW

WWE Tag Team Champions
Carlito & Primo Colon
72 day reign
defeated Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder on the September 26 edition of Friday Night SmackDown!

WWE Women’s Champion
Beth Phoenix
112 day reign
pinned Mickie James in a tag team match on August 17 at the “SummerSlam” pay per view

WWE Divas Champion
Michelle McCool
140 day reign
defeated Natalya Neidhart on July 20 at “The Great American Bash” pay per view to become the first ever Divas Champion.

TNA Wrestling

TNA World Heavyweight Champion
Sting
56 day reign
defeated Samoa Joe on October 12 at the “Bound for Glory” pay per view
next title defense: in an eight man tag match on December 7 at the “Final Resolution” pay per view

TNA X-Division Champion
Sheik Abdul Bashir
84 day reign
defeated Petey Williams and Consequences Creed in a “triple threat match” on September 14 at the “No Surrender” pay per view
next title defense: versus Eric Young on December 7 at the “Final Resolution” pay per view

TNA World Tag Team Champions
“Beer Money” – James Storm and Robert Roode
119 day reign
defeated the Latin American Xchange on August 10 at the “Hard Justice” pay per view
next title defense: versus Matt Morgan and Abyss on December 7 at the “Final Resolution” pay per view

TNA Women’s Champion
The Awesome Kong
45 day reign
defeated Taylor Wilde on the October 23 edition of “Impact”
next title defense: versus Christy Hemme on December 7 at the “Final Resolution” pay per view