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|lightest=Daniel Bryan |pastnames= * NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic) (1975–1981) * NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Undisputed) (1981–1991) * WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1990–2001) * WCW United States Championship (2001) |pastlookimages= }} The WWE United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship in WWE. Along with the WWE Intercontinental Championship, it is one of the two secondary titles of the promotion. It was originally a championship promoted in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (later known as Jim Crockett Promotions and World Championship Wrestling aka WCW), making it the only one of the five active titles in WWE not to have originated in WWE. == History == The United States Championship was originally known as the United States Heavyweight Championship and began as a regional championship created by and defended in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling run by Jim Crockett, Jr.. Following the title's introduction in 1975, Harley Race became the inaugural champion on January 1.〔 The title quickly replaced the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (MACW) as the top singles title in the promotion. While the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) recognized only one World Heavyweight Champion, there was no single undisputed U.S. Champion as a number of NWA regional promotions recognized their own version of the title and champion. That all changed, however, in January 1981 when the NWA territory based out of San Francisco, the last remaining promotion outside the Mid-Atlantic territory that recognized its own U.S. Champion, folded. The title remained the primary championship within the Mid-Atlantic territory until 1986 when Crockett gained control of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The U.S. title then became the secondary championship of the promotion. After Ted Turner bought the company and renamed it World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in November 1988, the title continued to be used and recognized as secondary to the World Championship. WCW eventually began to slowly pull itself away from the NWA, demonstrated by the company changing the name of the title to the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) United States Heavyweight Championship in January 1991. In March 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) purchased WCW. As part of the purchase, the United States Championship became WWF property. Throughout 2001, the title was referred to as the WCW United States Championship, as this was during The Invasion period. At Survivor Series, the title was unified with the WWF Intercontinental Championship. The United States Champion, Edge, defeated the Intercontinental Champion, Test, becoming the new Intercontinental Champion and the United States Championship was then deactivated. In July 2003, the title was reactivated as the United States Championship by SmackDown! General Manager Stephanie McMahon, and was commissioned to be a secondary championship to the SmackDown! brand. Eddie Guerrero became the first champion, after months of the title having been vacated, via a tournament at Vengeance by defeating Chris Benoit. This was done shortly after the Intercontinental Championship was recommissioned by the ''Raw'' brand, making the title its equal counterpart. The title remained on ''SmackDown!'' until April 13, 2009, when reigning champion Montel Vontavious Porter was drafted from ''SmackDown'' over to ''Raw'' during the 2009 WWE Draft, moving the title with him. On April 26, 2011, reigning champion Sheamus was drafted to ''SmackDown'' during the 2011 WWE Draft, briefly bringing the U.S. title back to the brand. Five days later, Raw's Kofi Kingston defeated Sheamus for the title at Extreme Rules, returning it to ''Raw''. Since August 29, 2011, when all WWE programming became "Supershows" featuring the entire roster, the U.S. title has been defended on both ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown''. In 2015, WWE introduced an updated version of their Grand Slam Championship, and the U.S. Championship became officially recognized as a component of the re-established honor.〔(New WWE Grand Slam - WWE.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WWE United States Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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