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 Matt Hardy as Cruiserweight Champion. |
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Inactive - Status Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | SmackDown! | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date created | 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Cruiserweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. It is challenged by cruiserweights at a maximum weight of 215 lbs (97.5 kg).[1] and was originally a World Championship Wrestling title. Currently, it is exclusive to the SmackDown! brand.
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History
The WWE Cruiserweight Championship is recognized as formerly being the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Light Heavyweight Championship. Following the title's introduction in 1991, a tournament was held to determine the inaugural champion. On October 27, Brian Pillman defeated Richard Morton in the tournament final to win the title. However, when Brad Armstrong was forced to relinquish the title due to injury on September 2 1992 it became inactive. Then, on March 20 1996, Shinjiro Ohtani defeated Chris Benoit in another tournament final to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. In March 2001, the World Wrestling Federation purchased World Championship Wrestling. Soon after, "The Invasion" took place in which the WCW/ECW Alliance was ultimately dismantled. Following Survivor Series 2001, the title was renamed the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) Cruiserweight Championship, replacing the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship.[1]. Following the WWF/WWE name change in 2002, the championship was subsequently referred to as the WWE Cruiserweight Championship and became exclusive to the SmackDown! brand.
Current champion
The title is currently vacant. Hornswoggle, the most recent champion, was stripped of the title on the September 28, 2007 edition of SmackDown! by the brand's acting General Manager Vickie Guerrero, citing that his status as Mr. McMahon's (kayfabe) son and his dimunitive stature would eventually jeopardize his well-being.
See also
Notes
External links
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Brand Championships
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RAW: WWE • Intercontinental • World Tag Team • Women's SmackDown!: World Heavyweight • United States • Tag Team • Cruiserweight ECW: ECW |
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Developmental Championships
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Ohio Valley Wrestling: Heavyweight • Television • Southern Tag Team • Women's Florida Championship Wrestling: Southern Heavyweight |
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Other accomplishments
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Royal Rumble • Money in the Bank • King of the Ring • Diva Search |
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Championship lists
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List of current champions in WWE WWE (reigns) • Intercontinental (reigns) • World Tag Team (reigns) • Women's (reigns) World Heavyweight (reigns) • United States (reigns) • Tag Team (reigns) • Cruiserweight (reigns) ECW (reigns) |
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World Heavyweight (1991-2001) · International World Heavyweight (1993-1994) World Tag Team (1991-2001) · World Six-Man Tag Team (1991) World Television (1991-2000) · United States (1991-2001) · United States Tag Team (1991-1992) Cruiserweight (1996-2001) · Cruiserweight Tag Team (2001) · Light Heavyweight (1991-1992) Women's (1996-1997) · Women's Cruiserweight (1997) · Hardcore (1999-2001) |
