First champions of all WWE Championships
This list features the wrestlers who won the belt for each WWE championship for the first time.
Date of Entry | Championship | First Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 1956-09-18 | WWE Women's Championship | The Fabulous Moolah |
| 1963-04-06 | WWWF United States Heavyweight Championship | Bobo Brazil |
| 1963-04-25 | WWE Championship | Buddy Rogers |
| 1969-06-01 | WWF International Tag Team Championship | Toru Tanaka and Mitsu Arakawa (Rising Suns) |
| 1971-06-03 | World Tag Team Championship | Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler |
| 1975-01-01 | United States Championship | Harley Race |
| 1978-12-18 | WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship | Antonio Inoki |
| 1979-02-13 | WWF North American Heavyweight Championship | Ted DiBiase |
| 1979-09-01 | Intercontinental Championship | Pat Patterson |
| 1983-05-13 | WWF Women's Tag Team Championship | Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria |
| 1985-08-18 | WWF Canadian Championship | Dino Bravo |
| 1989-02-15 | Million Dollar Championship | Ted DiBiase |
| 1991-01-07 | WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship | Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada |
| 1997-02-26 | WWE European Championship | The British Bulldog |
| 1997-12-07 | WWF Light Heavyweight Championship | Taka Michinoku |
| 1998-11-02 | WWE Hardcore Championship | Mankind |
| 2001-03-23 | WCW Championship | Booker T |
| 2001-03-23 | WCW Tag Team Championship | Sean O' Haire and Chuck Palumbo |
| 2001-03-23 | WWE Cruiserweight Championship | Shane Helms |
| 2002-09-02 | World Heavyweight Championship | Triple H |
| 2002-10-20 | Raw Tag Team Championship | Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit |
| 2006-06-13 | ECW Championship | Rob Van Dam |
| 2008-07-20 | WWE Divas Championship | Michelle McCool |
| 2012-07-01 | NXT Championship | Seth Rollins |
| 2013-01-23 | NXT Tag Team Championship | Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey (British Ambition) |
| 2013-04-05 | NXT Women's Championship | Paige |
| 2016-04-03 | Raw Women's Championship | Charlotte Flair |
| 2016-07-25 | Universal Championship | Finn Bálor |
| 2016-08-23 | SmackDown Tag Team Championship | Rhyno and Heath Slater |
| 2016-08-23 | SmackDown Women's Championship | Becky Lynch |
| 2016-09-14 | NXT Cruiserweight Championship | T.J. Perkins |
| 2016-12-15 | NXT United Kingdom Championship | Tyler Bate |
| 2018-03-07 | NXT North American Championship | Adam Cole |
| 2018-04-27 | WWE Greatest Royal Rumble Championship | Braun Strowman |
| 2018-06-18 | NXT UK Tag Team Championship | James Drake and Zack Gibson |
| 2018-06-18 | NXT UK Women's Championship | Rhea Ripley |
| 2018-12-24 | WWE Women's Tag Team Championship | .Bayley and Sasha Banks |
| 2019-05-20 | 24/7 Championship | Titus O'Neil |
| 2020-09-10 | NXT UK Heritage Cup | A-Kid |
| 2021-03-10 | NXT Women's Tag Team Championship | Dakota Kai and Raquel González |
| 1958-07 | WWWF United States Tag Team Championship | Don Curtis and Mark Lewin |
| 1959-07 | WWF International Heavyweight Championship | Antonino Rocca |
| 1965-09 | WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship | Paul DeGalles |
