WWE United States Championship

The **WWE United States Championship** is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the American promotion WWE, currently defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two secondary championships for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Intercontinental Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Finn Bálor, who is in his first reign.

 Promotion
WCW (1988–2001)
 Brand
 Current champion(s)
 * NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic) (1975–1981)
* NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Undisputed) (1981–1991)
* WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1991–2001)
* WCW United States Championship (2001)

 Longest reign
 Shortest reign
 Oldest champion
 Youngest champion
 Heaviest champion
 Lightest champion

The championship was established on January 1, 1975, as the version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship that was defended in Jim Crockett Promotions, and later assumed by World Championship Wrestling(WCW), which eventually seceded from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Harley Race was the inaugural champion. After WCW was purchased by the then-World Wrestling Federation(WWF) in 2001, the then-WCW United States Championship was defended in the WWF until it was unified with the Intercontinental Championship at that year's Survivor Series. After the 2002 brand extension and the promotion being renamed WWE, the championship was reactivated as the WWE United States Championship in July 2003 as a secondary title of the SmackDown brand. The United States Championship has switched between brands over the years, usually as a result of the WWE Draft; the 2019 Superstar Shake-upmoved the title to Raw.

Of WWE's currently active championships, the United States Championship is the only one that was not originated in the promotion. It is the second oldest active title in the company, behind the WWE Championship (1963), but the third longest-tenured championship, behind the WWE and Intercontinental Championships (1979), as WWE has only owned the United States Championship since 2001.

## Reigns

Main article: List of WWE United States Champions

The inaugural champion was Harley Race. There have been 101 different champions, with Ric Flair having the most reigns at six. The longest-reigning champion is Lex Luger, who held the title for 523 days from May 22, 1989, to October 27, 1990. "Stunning" Steve Austin's second reign was the shortest, lasting approximately five minutes. Dean Ambrose is the longest-reigning champion under the WWE banner at 351 days, lasting from May 19, 2013, to May 5, 2014. Booker T and Seth Rollins are the only two men to have held both the United States Championship and a world championship simultaneously; in Booker T's case, the world title was the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, while Rollins held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship (both Lex Luger and Goldberg were the United States Champion when they won their first world championship, but unlike Booker T and Rollins, they vacated the United States Championship after winning their world championships). Terry Funk is the oldest champion in the title's history, winning the title at the age of 56 on September 22, 2000, while David Flair is the youngest at the age of 20 on July 5, 1999. Between NWA/WCW and WWE, the title has been vacated 21 times.

Finn Bàlor is the current champion in his first reign. He won the title by defeating previous champion Damian Priest at Royal Rumble (2022) on January 29, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.