WWWF United States Heavyweight Championship
| WWWF United States Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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One version of the belt that represented the championship in the 1960s and 1970s | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | World Wide Wrestling Federation | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | April 20, 1960 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | March 1, 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The WWWF United States Heavyweight Championship was a singles title used sporadically in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF; WWE as of 2002) between 1960 and 1976. During the variable periods in which it was used, the title served as the promotion's secondary singles championship to the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship. Three years after the title was retired, and after the promotion had been renamed to World Wrestling Federation (WWF), it was replaced by the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship as the company's secondary title.
The title originated as the Northeast version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and was used in the WWWF's precursor, Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC), a territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). After CWC split from the NWA in 1963 and became the WWWF, the title subsequently became a WWWF championship. The inaugural champion was Buddy Rogers while the final champion was Bobo Brazil.
The title is distinct from the WWE United States Championship, which originated in 1975 as the Mid-Atlantic version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship. That title later became property of World Championship Wrestling, which was acquired by WWE, at the time WWF, in 2001.