WWE Pure Championship

The WWE Pure Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the professional wrestling promotion KJWWE, currently defended on the Smackdown brand division. It is one of two quaternary championships in KJWWE, alongside the Legends Championship on Raw. The current champion is Dolph Ziggler, who is in his third reign.

History
The championship was introduced on the post-Summerslam episode of Smackdown on August 28, 2018. The championship was created so that Smackdown would have an equal number of championships to Raw; at the 2018 WWE Draft, Raw acquired the Universal Championship, the United States Championship, the European Championship, the Legends Championship, and the Tag Team Championship, while Smackdown acquired the WWE Championship, the Intercontinental Championship, the Television Championship, and the newly formed International Tag Team Championship. It was also announced that the inaugural champion would be crowned in an eight-man tournament, with the final at Smackdown's first exclusive pay-per-view, Double or Nothing, on October 6, 2018.

The championship is contested under pure wrestling rules. These rules are:


 * 1) Each wrestler has three rope breaks to stop submission holds and pinfalls during the match. After a wrestler exhausts his rope breaks, submission and pin attempts under the ropes by the opponent are considered legal.
 * 2) There are no closed-fist punches to the face allowed in a Pure Rules match, only open-handed slaps or chops to the face are allowed. Punches to other parts of the body (save for low blows) are permitted. The first use of a closed fist would get a warning, and the second would cause the wrestler to be penalized a rope break. If he is already out of rope breaks, he would be disqualified.
 * 3) The championship can change hands via disqualification or countout.