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WWE

American professional wrestling and entertainment company

12 dated entries naming WWE, drawn from 9 separate years between 1934 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as World Wrestling Entertainment, World Wrestling Federation in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1934December 12 – Guadalupe Robledo (José Lothario), wrestler and manager (NWA, WWE, CWF).(died 2018)source
  • 1945August 24 – Vincent K. "Vince" McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of WWEsource
  • 1993January 11 – WWE introduce their television program, Monday Night Raw.source
  • 1999August 26 – WWE introduce their secondary program, SmackDown, which started its broadcast on UPN.source

21st century

  • 2001March 26 – World Championship Wrestling goes out of business and is purchased by its chief competitor, the World Wrestling Federation, bringing an end to the Monday Night Wars.source
  • 2001April 15 – Extreme Championship Wrestling files for bankruptcy and ceases operations, is eventually bought by its competitor, the World Wrestling Federation.source
  • 2005November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, 38, Mexican-American WWE professional wrestler, heart failure.source
  • 2007January 19 – Bam Bam Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW, NJPW), drug overdose.source
  • 2007June 24 – Chris Benoit, 40, Canadian professional wrestler (WWE, WCW, NJPW), suicide by hanging.source
  • 2015June 11 – Dusty Rhodes, 69, American professional wrestler, booker (NWA, WCW, WWE) and promoter, Hall of Fame (2007, 2010), kidney failure.source
  • 2015July 31 – Roddy Piper, 61, Canadian professional wrestler (WWE, WCW) and actor (They Live), complications from hypertension.source
  • 2025July 24 – Hulk Hogan, 71, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWF, WCW) and actor (Suburban Commando), heart attack.source