ECW Championship

The title was deactivated in 2001 when ECW ceased all of its operations. The assets of ECW were then purchased by WWE in 2003. In 2006, WWE reactivated the championship as the world title of their newly established ECWbrand. It was the third concurrently active world championship in the promotion, complementing the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship (2002–2013 version) of the other two brands, Raw and SmackDown. The ECW Championship then briefly appeared as the sole world title of the Raw brand in 2008 as a result of that year's draft. When WWE disbanded the ECW brand in 2010, the championship was subsequently retired following the final episode of ECW with Ezekiel Jackson as the final titleholder, who consequently had the shortest reign at 2 minutes, 25 seconds as he won it during the episode. The ECW Championship was the fourth overall world title to be utilized by WWE, after the WWE Championship (1963–present), the WCW Championship (2001), and the World Heavyweight Championship (2002–2013).