The WWE European Championship was a championship competed for in World Wrestling Entertainment. During the late 1990's and early 2000's, multiple wrestlers held the European and WWF Intercontinental Championships within short spans of each other, and three held both simultaneously, becoming "Eurocontinental champions".
Reigns:[]
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | |||
1 | The British Bulldog | February 26, 1997 | Raw | Berlin, Germany | 1 | 206 | Defeated Owen Hart in a tournament final to become the first champion. |
2 | Shawn Michaels | September 20, 1997 | One Night Only | Birmingham, England | 1 | 82 | |
3 | Triple H | December 11, 1997 | Raw | Lowell, MA | 1 | 40 | |
4 | Owen Hart | January 20, 1998 | Raw | Davis, CA | 1 | 55 | |
5 | Triple H | March 16, 1998 | Raw | Phoenix, AZ | 2 | 120 | |
6 | D'Lo Brown | July 14, 1998 | Raw | Binghamton, NY | 1 | 63 | |
7 | X-Pac | September 15, 1998 | Raw | Sacramento, CA | 1 | 14 | |
8 | D'Lo Brown | September 29, 1998 | Raw | East Lansing, MI | 2 | 19 | |
9 | X-Pac | October 18, 1998 | Judgment Day: In Your House | Rosemont, IL | 2 | 120 | |
10 | Shane McMahon | February 15, 1999 | Raw | Birmingham, AL | 1 | 43 | |
— | Deactivated | March 30, 1999 | Sunday Night Heat | Uniondale, NY | — | — | |
11 | Mideon | June 21, 1999 | Raw | Memphis, TN | 1 | 34 | Shane McMahon awarded Mideon the title after he found it in McMahon's travel bag. |
12 | D'Lo Brown | July 25, 1999 | Fully Loaded | Buffalo, NY | 3 | 28 | |
13 | Jeff Jarrett | August 22, 1999 | SummerSlam | Minneapolis, MN | 1 | 1 | |
14 | Mark Henry | August 23, 1999 | Raw | Ames, IA | 1 | 34 | Jeff Jarrett gave the title to Henry as a gift for his assisting Jarrett in defeating D'Lo Brown at SummerSlam. |
15 | D'Lo Brown | September 26, 1999 | Unforgiven | Charlotte, NC | 4 | 30 | |
16 | The British Bulldog | October 26, 1999 | SmackDown! | Springfield, MA | 2 | 47 | |
17 | Val Venis | December 12, 1999 | Armageddon | Sunrise, FL | 1 | 58 | |
18 | Kurt Angle | February 8, 2000 | SmackDown! | Austin, TX | 1 | 54 | |
19 | Chris Jericho | April 2, 2000 | WrestleMania 2000 | Anaheim, CA | 1 | 1 | |
20 | Eddie Guerrero | April 3, 2000 | Raw | Los Angeles, CA | 1 | 111 | |
21 | Perry Saturn | July 23, 2000 | Fully Loaded | Dallas, TX | 1 | 37 | |
22 | Al Snow | August 29, 2000 | SmackDown! | Fayetteville, NC | 1 | 48 | |
23 | William Regal | October 16, 2000 | Raw | Detroit, MI | 1 | 47 | |
24 | Crash Holly | December 2, 2000 | Rebellion | Sheffield, England | 1 | 2 | |
25 | William Regal | December 4, 2000 | Raw | East Rutherford, NJ | 2 | 49 | |
26 | Test | January 22, 2001 | Raw | Lafayette, LA | 1 | 69 | |
27 | Eddie Guerrero | April 1, 2001 | WrestleMania X-Seven | Houston, TX | 2 | 23 | |
28 | Matt Hardy | April 24, 2001 | SmackDown! | Denver, CO | 1 | 125 | |
29 | The Hurricane | August 27, 2001 | Raw | Grand Rapids, MI | 1 | 56 | |
30 | Bradshaw | October 22, 2001 | Raw | Kansas City, MO | 1 | 8 | |
31 | Christian | October 30, 2001 | SmackDown! | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 91 | |
32 | Diamond Dallas Page | January 29, 2002 | SmackDown! | Norfolk, VA | 1 | 49 | |
33 | William Regal | March 19, 2002 | SmackDown! | Ottawa, ON | 3 | 20 | The championship became exclusive to Raw when Regal was drafted to the Raw brand on March 26, 2002. |
34 | Spike Dudley | April 8, 2002 | Raw | Phoenix, AZ | 1 | 28 | Renamed the WWE European Championship on May 5, 2002 |
35 | William Regal | May 6, 2002 | Raw | Hartford, CT | 4 | 63 | |
36 | Jeff Hardy | July 8, 2002 | Raw | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 14 | |
37 | Rob Van Dam | July 22, 2002 | Raw | Grand Rapids, MI | 1 | <1 | This was a unification match for Van Dam's WWE Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match. |
— | Unified | July 22, 2002 | Raw | Grand Rapids, MI | — | — | Unified with the Intercontinental Championship. |