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WWE European Championship
Final design of the WWE European Championship.
Final design of the WWE European Championship.
Details
Current
champion(s)
Deactivated
Date introduced 2005
Date retired September 22, 2008
Promotion WWE The E-Fed
Brand RAW
Date retired September 22, 2008

The WWE European Championship was the third-tier championship title in the WWE E-Fed federation on Monday Night RAW; the second brand of the company. The first champion was M-Dogg 20 who won a 15-man Battle Royal to become the inaugural champion. The final champion was New Jack who was in second reign, after defeating Paul Burchill at Unforgiven on September 22, 2008. After winning the European Championship, New Jack would disown the European Championship and rename it the Hardcore Championship, reactivating a champinoship that had been inactive since September of 2006. New Jack and Muhammed Hassan hold the record for the most reigns with two reigns each. New Jack holds the shortest reign with 1 day. Jimmy Rave currently holds the record for longest reign (as an individual) with 110 days.

Title history[]

Key[]

# The overall championship reign
Date The date in which the championship was obtained
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Venue The event where the championship was obtained
Notes Any additional important information on how the championship changed hands
Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
# Wrestler Name Reign Date Days held Venue Notes
1 M-Dogg 20 1 September 25, 2005 86 Unforgiven

M-Dogg 20 won a 15-man Battle Royal to become the inaugural European Champion.

2 Muhammed Hassan 1 December 19, 2005 28 RAW
3 Johnny Nitro 1 January 15, 2006 85 New Year's Revolution
4 The Rock 1 April 9, 2006 23 Wrestlemania 22
Vacated May 1, 2006 RAW
5 Austin Aries 1 May 1, 2006 55 RAW Aries won a Battle Royal to claim the vacant European Championship.
6 Kid Kash 1 June 25, 2006 71 Vengeance

This was a fatal fourway match also involving Rob Conway and Ken Doane.

Vacated September 3, 2006
7 Muhammed Hassan 2 September 3, 2006 15 RAW Hassan defeated Rob Conway to claim the vacant European Championship.
8 Chris Sabin 1 September 17, 2006 52 Unforigven
9 Adrian Cage 1 November 7, 2006 92 Taboo Tuesday
10 John Jeter 1 February 6, 2007 104 Royal Rumble
Vacated May 20, 2007 RAW
11 Jimmy Rave 1 May 27, 2007 110 RAW
Vacated September 3, 2007 Summerslammiversary
12 Sterling James Keenan 1 Septmeber 30, 2007 23 Unforgiven
Vacant October 22, 2007 RAW
13 Johnny Devine 1 November 21, 2007 74 Taboo Tuesday

Devine defeated Festus and Johnny Fairplay to claim the vacant European Championship.

14 Paul London 1 February 2, 2008 59 Royal Rumble This was a fatal fourway match also involving ...............................
15 New Jack 1 March 31, 2008 20 Wrestlemania This was a fatal fourway match also involving................................
Vacated April 19, 2008 RAW
16 Paul Burchill 1 August 25, 2008 29 Summerslammiversary Burchill defeated New Jack to claim the vacant European Championship.
17 New Jack 2 September 22, 2008 1 Unforgiven
Deactivated September 22, 2008 Unforgiven

New Jack disowned the European Championship and reactivated the Hardcore Championship.

NJ

Final European Champion, New Jack

List of combined reigns[]

Indicates the current champion
<1 Indicates the reign was less than 1 day

As of May 22, 2013

Rank Wrestler # of Reigns Combined Days
1. Jimmy Rave 1 110
2. John Jeter 1 104
3. Adrian Cage 1 92
4. M-Dogg 20 1 86
5. Johnny Nitro 1 85
6. Johnny Devine 1 74
7. Kid Kash 1 71
8. Paul London 1 59
9. Austin Aries 1 55
10. Chris Sabin 1 52
11. Muhammed Hassan 2 43
12. Paul Burchill 1 29
13. The Rock 1 23
14. Sterling James Keenan 1 23
15. New Jack 2 21

See also[]

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