List of WWE European Champions


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The WWE European Championship is a former professional wrestling title competed for in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The title was created on February 26, 1997.[1] The first champion was The British Bulldog who defeated Owen Hart in a tournament final.[2] The title was retired briefly in April 1999 by then-champion Shane McMahon, who wanted to retire as an "undefeated champion". McMahon reintroduced the championship two months later and gave it to Mideon, who saw the title belt in Shane's travel bag and asked if he could have it.[3][4] The title was finally retired on July 22, 2002, when WWE Intercontinental Champion Rob Van Dam defeated European Champion Jeff Hardy to unify the European title into the Intercontinental title.[5] Over the title's 5 year, 4 month, and 26 day history there have been a total of 27 recognized champions who were a combined 37 official reigns among 27 different wrestlers. This is a chronological list of wrestlers that have been WWE European Champion by ring name.

Name Years
WWF European Championship February 26, 1997 – May 6, 2002
WWE European Championship May 6, 2002 – July 22, 2002
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Days recog. Number of days held recognized by the promotion
† Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
<1 Reign lasted less than a day

Record tying 4-time WWE European Champion D'Lo Brown

Rank Champion No. of
reigns 		Combined
days 		Combined days
recognized by WWE
1 The British Bulldog 2 253 249
2 William Regal 4 179 173
3 Triple H 2 160 149
4 D'Lo Brown 4 140 126
5 Eddie Guerrero 2 134 134
X-Pac 2 134 132
7 Matt Hardy 1 125 122
8 Christian 1 91 90
9 Shawn Michaels 1 82 92
10 Test 1 69 68
11 Val Venis 1 58 59
12 The Hurricane 1 56 55
13 Owen Hart 1 55 52
14 Kurt Angle 1 54 51
15 Diamond Dallas Page 1 49 48
16 Al Snow 1 48 45
17 Shane McMahon 1 43 47
18 Perry Saturn 1 37 38
19 Mideon 1 34 33
Mark Henry 1 34 33
21 Spike Dudley 1 28 27
22 Jeff Hardy 1 14 12
23 Bradshaw 1 8 9
24 Crash Holly 1 2 1
25 Jeff Jarrett 1 1 <1
Chris Jericho 1 1 <1
27 Rob Van Dam 1 <1
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