WWE Mini history

The WWF (World Wrestling Federation) was founded in 1963 in controversial circumstances. After the undisputed Heavyweight Champion Thez lost a match under disqualification, the NWA rules stated that the title does not change hands on a DQ and in this case Thez also had a back injury so it would have been unfair to take the title off the man that had unified so many titles in Wrestling. But the WWWF (as it was then known) took this opportunity and formed there own company with Buddy Rogers as their champion. (Many other organisations did the same.) The NWA still recognised Thez and the WWF was born.

Since this date the WW F has been the world leaders in Pro Wrestling and was seen to hold the real World Heavyweight Title (WW F Title), especially after its own title was unified with the WCW title after WWF bought WCW in 2001 and created an Undisputed World Title.

WWF changed their name in May 2002 from WW F to WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), in a statement from Linda McMahon she explained it was due to the worldwide growth of the WWF. In reality the WWF had lost a court case in the UK and had lost the rights to use the initials and logo in the United Kingdom and so where forced to change their name.
The World Wrestling Federation changed their name on the 6th May 2002 due to losing a court battle with the World Wide Fund for nature in the UK. The new name for the leaders of "Sports Entertainment" is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). All names of their titles changed on this day.

The WWE works as two independent company's, Raw and Smackdown click the logo to find out more about the brands. Click the titles to view title history or scroll down to the bottom of the page to read WWE history.