World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Federation is the longest company in wrestling history founding in 1963 and is owned by Vince Mcmahon Jr.

## Company history

### Prior to The Reboot(1963-1985)

Vince Mcmahon Sr. was a writer for National Wrestling Alliance but he believed he could make something more so on march 2nd 1963, Vince Mcmahon Sr. started putting in the work on the WAR Intiative, something he believed could bring wrestling its golden days, the NWA would be split into 4 individual companies, they would hold a draft to determine whose wrestlers go where, they would then see who would give the best shows, this would bring in viewership and interest because every company would try to give their best shows ever, Vince approached first Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo of the AWA who were on board with the idea, next he approached Stu Hart who felt like he was not one of the big companies yet but with his ideas and this war he could very well become one of the newest big companies, lastly they went to Sam Muchnick, NWA's very own owner who felt like this idea would completely rip apart the territories system and it took a long time to convince him but finally by april 4th he was on board, and on april 8th the draft happened.

WWWF would go on to become the most popular company in these next 22 years making stars and building new innovations for professional wrestling such as gimmicks, rivalries and stipulation matches.

During these 22 years, they built up stars like The Funks with their 10 year long storyline, Andre The Giant with his 158-0 streak which was broken by the new star on the making, Hulk Hogan, Four Horsemen(Harley Race, Ole Anderson, Larry Hennig and Ron Garvin) also formed here in 1964 being the longest running stable until 1978 where they broke up.

In 1978, Vince Mcmahon Jr. bought WWWF from his dad and against his wishes started working on becoming the sole company on top of the wrestling industry, Vince Sr. starts working with NWA's Sam Muchnik full time to take down his own son as he felt like The Alliance was still working and a real war wouldn't do the wrestling world any good.

In 1980, Vince Mcmahon Sr. passed away and Vince Jr. sent his WWWF Champion Bob Backlund to an AWA show to injure Ric Flair who was getting over with the fans, thus began a real war as Wally Karbo resigned from The Alliance and this leaked that this war was always an alliance, Sam and Stu would also resign from The Alliance and  Vince Jr. declared war on AWA and NWA.

This would all culminate at Wrestlemania I, wrestling's first ever PPV as WWF had brought in a lot of attention with Hulk Hogan and all of their feuds, at Wrestlemania I right before Hulk Hogan vs Roddy Piper with Muhammed Ali as the special guest enforcer, Vince Mcmahon Jr. announced that the WWWF would be rebooted into WWF, none of the results or reigns that happened during these 22 years would matter and they would start from brand new with weekly shows leading up to monthly supershows, this pissed off a lot of people backstage and most of them left WWWF, still Wrestlemania I was a huge success and it effectively made WWF the biggest wrestling company in the world.

### Golden Age(1985-1990)

With the hype brought in from The Reboot and Wrestlemania I, WWF entered a golden age where they saw a surge of mainstream popularity with monthly events on NBC with Sunday Night Main Event and 6 PPVs throught the year: Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, King of the Ring, Summerslam, G1 Finals and Survivor Series.

The Golden Age peaked at Wrestlemania III where Hulk Hogan bodyslammed Andre The Giant to win the WWF title after being gone for most of 1986, this era also put on the mark wrestlers like Ultimate Warrior, Junkyard Dog, Jake Roberts, Roddy Piper, Sting, Ricky Steamboat, all of which became WWF Champions during this time.

Hulk Hogan won the WWF championship for a third time in 1989 at Wrestlemania V and would hold onto the championship until Summerslam 1990, something that started boring fans as Hogan's peak had already reached and now he was on his downfall, combine Hogan's reign of terror with 2 bad creative years where it all felt the same and popularity went down and WWF knew they had to do something

### New Generation Era(1990-1992)

WCW debuted in 1989 and became a huge success in a short time with their focus on ring work, WWF took that approach and decided to make more realistic feuds and not to focus on the gimmicks too much, this era started when Haku cashed in his MITB in the form of a match against Ultimate Warrior and proceeded to headbutt him 23 times in a row to make them both bleed from the head and Haku won the WWF championship by knockout.

Rick Martel coined the name "new generation" when he was in a feud with Hulk Hogan talking about how Hogan was the focus of everything and didn't let the "new generation" shine, he'd go on to defeat him at Wrestlemania VII in one of the most shocking wins ever, Hogan would start showing up less and less with mostly undercard feuds.

Koko B.Ware was a huge fan favorite during this time as he miraculously returned from a car crash that could've ended his wrestling career but WWF didn't capitalize on this as he got constantly beaten by older guys like Dino Bravo and Brutus Beefcake, this just led to more popularity for Koko who was now billed as an underdog and the crowd just wanted to see him win, his big moment came at Royal Rumble 1992 when Haku put the WWF Championship on the line at the rumble match, Koko eliminated Haku and eliminated Savage to win the  WWF championship right before getting cashed in by Rick Martel as the crowd booed.

This would all lead to Wrestlemania VIII where the "new generation triple threat" took place, the top heel Haku facing the top babyface Koko B.Ware facing the top neutral guy that coined the New Generation, WWF Champion Rick Martel, Koko finally had his moment and no one to steal it from him as he became a 3 time WWF Champion on Haku's last WWF match.

During this time, the midcard scene was also amazing as it had people like Bret Hart, Mr.Perfect, British  Bulldog, Texas  Tornado, Undertaker, all stars that felt ready to jump onto the next level, especially Bret Hart.

Monday Night RAW debuted in 12th August 1991

### Brand Split Era(1992-1995)

In the ending of Wrestlemania VIII, Koko was celebrating when Lex Luger, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels jumped all 3 men of the main event and then WCW Heaviweight champion Ric Flair's theme hit, the biggest WCW guy was now on WWF.

The day after, the draft took place as WWF took a new approach to get back its golden age popularity, they would split the roster in 2 and have RAW and Smackdown.

During this era they went to bigger lows in popularity as wrestling interest was fading away and only 2 men were the big draws of the company, Bret Hart over on RAW and Doink The Clown over on Smackdown. They tried to mix over the top gimmicks with good matches but the only gimmick that worked was Doink The Clown with his great saga with Barry Horowitz from 1992 until 1994 which defined Smackdown.

Bret Hart held the WWF Championship from april 1993 to august 1995 with the biggest WWF title reign ever, the brand split oficially ended in march 1995 as WWF wanted to focus on Monday Night Raw as in 1994 Nitro debuted and started the monday night wars, during this time WCW and WWF had a hostile relationship but they had a deal every 5 years they would hold a PPV called WAR where WCW and WWF wrestlers faced each other.

WAR 2 happened on 31st december 1995, the main event was WCW Heaviweight champion Sting facing WWF Champion Mr.Perfect, the deal was that Sting would win so the show would end in a 5-5 draw as no company could look better than the other. But the WWF Screwjob happened as Earl Hebner counted too fast and Perfect defeated Sting to end this in a 6-4 win to WWF, Bischoff was pissed and cancelled the WAR deal and decided that he would take down WWF no matter what and this is when the real monday night wars began.

1996 saw WWF suffer in a way that they have never suffered before as most of their big and future talent left the company for WCW such as Diesel, Razor Ramon, Mr.Perfect, HHH, Hakushi and many more people, WCW put on Nitro 100 where Nash and Hall shockingly made their debuts with Hall cashing in his WWF Briefcase and Uncensored 1996 took place at the same time as Wrestlemania XII and got a bigger buyrate as Hulk Hogan turned heel and formed the New World Order.

WWF focused on The Harts in 1996 and 1997 but also signed some former WCW talent that they thought could help them get eyes back on the product such as Vader, Stunning Austin, Cactus Jack, Brian Pillman, 1996 was mostly a transitional year to this next era

### Attitude Era(1997-current)

The current era, starting at Royal Rumble 1997, WWF seemed to be becoming more edgy with stuff like Austin and Bret's double turn, Bret cursing to Vince, Vince being showcased more as the owner of the company, DX being DX. On the RAW after Wrestlemania XIII, Vince said that he knows the fans are tired of having their intelligence insulted and now the shows will be more era appropriate, RAW became 2 hours during this time with the first hour focused on the undercard and more wrestling and the 2nd hour being all out WarZone

The rise of Stone Cold Steve Austin happened here, as well as captivating new storylines and new characters like The Rock, Mankind, Kane, Ministry of Darkness, BWO Civil War and much more.

After Summerslam 1997 where Taker threw Mankind off the cell through the announcer's table, RAW tied in ratings and 3 weeks later, they beat Nitro in ratings for the first time in 63 weeks.

After Stone Cold won the WWF Championship at Wrestlemania XIV, the tide turned for WWF as they started beating WCW in ratings more and more as wrestling overall became more popular than ever, on the RAW after Mania XV, Mankind beat The Rock to win the WWF championship which had the highest RAW viewership of the Monday Night Wars with 15.6 million viewers.

## Championships

*Current Champions According To Universe Timeline (June 20th 1999)*