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* ''Wrestling/AttitudeEra'': Ended in 2001. Whether it happened at ''[=WrestleMania=] X-Seven'' or ''Survivor Series'' is up for debate.

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* ''Wrestling/AttitudeEra'': ''MediaNotes/AttitudeEra'': Ended in 2001. Whether it happened at ''[=WrestleMania=] X-Seven'' or ''Survivor Series'' is up for debate.



* ''Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle'': WWE's StoryArc for much of 2001.

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* ''Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle'': ''MediaNotes/TheInvasionAngle'': WWE's StoryArc for much of 2001.



* ''Wrestling/{{Vengeance}}'': Debuted in 2001. Ceased after 2007. Returned in for a single time in 2011.

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* ''Wrestling/{{Vengeance}}'': ''MediaNotes/{{Vengeance}}'': Debuted in 2001. Ceased after 2007. Returned in for a single time in 2011.



* ''Wrestling/WWEHallOfFame'': Relaunched in 2004 and continued since.
* ''Wrestling/WWEPGEra'': Began in 2008.

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* ''Wrestling/WWEHallOfFame'': ''MediaNotes/WWEHallOfFame'': Relaunched in 2004 and continued since.
* ''Wrestling/WWEPGEra'': ''MediaNotes/WWEPGEra'': Began in 2008.



* Wrestling/BigGoldBelt. The original Big Gold Belt would be retired in early 2001 and replaced with an all-gold cast replica. Following the acquisition of WCW in 2001, the WCW World Championship was unified with the WWF Championship into the Undisputed WWE Championship. However, the design was reused (albeit revised somewhat) for WWE's World Heavyweight championship, with a WWE logo eventually added for trademark purposes.

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* Wrestling/BigGoldBelt.MediaNotes/BigGoldBelt. The original Big Gold Belt would be retired in early 2001 and replaced with an all-gold cast replica. Following the acquisition of WCW in 2001, the WCW World Championship was unified with the WWF Championship into the Undisputed WWE Championship. However, the design was reused (albeit revised somewhat) for WWE's World Heavyweight championship, with a WWE logo eventually added for trademark purposes.



* Wrestling/TripleCrownChampion: Several more wrestlers have achieved this feat, and in different promotions at that.
* Wrestling/WWEDivasEra: A period from 1999 to 2016 where WWE's female talents were called "WWE Divas."

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* Wrestling/TripleCrownChampion: MediaNotes/TripleCrownChampion: Several more wrestlers have achieved this feat, and in different promotions at that.
* Wrestling/WWEDivasEra: MediaNotes/WWEDivasEra: A period from 1999 to 2016 where WWE's female talents were called "WWE Divas."
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* Wrestling/JayLethal. Debuted in 2001, joining Wrestling/RingOfHonor in 2003 and [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] 2005.

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* Wrestling/JayLethal. Debuted in 2001, joining Wrestling/RingOfHonor in 2003 and [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling [[Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling TNA]] in 2005.



* ''Wrestling/ImpactWrestling''. Debuted in 2002 as Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling.


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* ''Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling''. Debuted in 2002.
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* Wrestling/BigGoldBelt. The original Big Gold Belt would be retired in early 2001 and replaced with an all-gold cast replicaand. Following the acquisition of WCW in 2001, the WCW World Championship was unified with the WWF Championship into the Undisputed WWE Championship. However, the design was reused for WWE's World Heavyweight championship, with a WWE logo eventually added for trademark purposes.

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* Wrestling/BigGoldBelt. The original Big Gold Belt would be retired in early 2001 and replaced with an all-gold cast replicaand.replica. Following the acquisition of WCW in 2001, the WCW World Championship was unified with the WWF Championship into the Undisputed WWE Championship. However, the design was reused (albeit revised somewhat) for WWE's World Heavyweight championship, with a WWE logo eventually added for trademark purposes.
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* Wrestling/GoldenLovers: Formed in 2009.
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* Wrestling/BigGoldBelt. Following the acquisition of WCW in 2001, the WCW World Championship was unified with the WWF Championship into the Undisputed WWE Championship. However, the design was reused for WWE's World Heavyweight championship, with a WWE logo eventually added for trademark purposes.

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* Wrestling/BigGoldBelt. The original Big Gold Belt would be retired in early 2001 and replaced with an all-gold cast replicaand. Following the acquisition of WCW in 2001, the WCW World Championship was unified with the WWF Championship into the Undisputed WWE Championship. However, the design was reused for WWE's World Heavyweight championship, with a WWE logo eventually added for trademark purposes.
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* Wrestling/LAKnight. Debuted in 2003.
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* ''Wrestling/RingOfHonor''. Debuted in 2002. Folded and sold to AEW co-founder/booker/CEO Tony Khan in 2022 and relaunched as an AEW sub-promotion in March 2023.

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* ''Wrestling/RingOfHonor''. Debuted in 2002. Folded and in 2021, sold to AEW co-founder/booker/CEO Tony Khan in 2022 and relaunched as an AEW sub-promotion in March 2023.
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* ''Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}''. Debuted in 2002.

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* ''Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}''. Debuted in 2002.2002, folded in 2020.



* ''Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE''. Debuted in 2004.

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* ''Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE''. Debuted in 2004.2004, folded in 2009.



* ''Wrestling/RingOfHonor''. Debuted in 2002.

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* ''Wrestling/RingOfHonor''. Debuted in 2002. Folded and sold to AEW co-founder/booker/CEO Tony Khan in 2022 and relaunched as an AEW sub-promotion in March 2023.



* ''Wrestling/WrestlingSocietyX''. Debuted in 2007.

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* ''Wrestling/WrestlingSocietyX''. Debuted in 2007.
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* Wrestling/ChigusaNagayo: Retired in 2005.


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* Wrestling/GoShiozaki: Debuted in 2004.
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* Wrestling/IoShirai: Debuted in 2007.
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* Wrestling/ElijahBurke: Debuted in 2003. First appeared in WWE's ECW brand in 2006 and stayed with the company until 2008. Joined TNA in 2009 and stayed with the company for much of the next decade.
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* Wrestling/AmyWeber. Diva Search contestant in the 2004 season, and JBL's 'Image Consultant' on Smackdown from then until 2005.
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* [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]. Retired in 2004 to focus on his acting career. Returned to wrestling part-time in 2011.

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* [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]. Retired in 2004 to focus on his [[Creator/DwayneJohnson acting career.career]]. Returned to wrestling part-time in 2011.
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* ''Wrestling/ArmageddonWrestling''. Replaced by ''Wrestling/{{Vengeance}}'' in 2001. Returned in 2002. Ceased after 2008.

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* ''Wrestling/ArmageddonWrestling''.''Wrestling/ArmageddonWWE''. Replaced by ''Wrestling/{{Vengeance}}'' in 2001. Returned in 2002. Ceased after 2008.
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* Wrestling/{{Edge}}: Won the 2001 King of the Ring, became the inaugural Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank winner in 2005, and ultimately peaked in 2006 by winning his first ever WWE Championship. Following the U.S. Championship being made part of the criteria in 2015 as a substitute for the now defunct European and Hardcore Championships, he retroactively became the seventh WWE Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion, and the third under its new format.

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* Wrestling/{{Edge}}: Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}: Won the 2001 King of the Ring, became the inaugural Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank winner in 2005, and ultimately peaked in 2006 by winning his first ever WWE Championship. Following the U.S. Championship being made part of the criteria in 2015 as a substitute for the now defunct European and Hardcore Championships, he retroactively became the seventh WWE Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion, and the third under its new format.
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* Wrestling/ShingoTakagi
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* Wrestling/BobSapp


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* Wrestling/MotorCityMachineGuns: Formed in 2006.

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* Wrestling/AdrianNeville. Debuted in 2004.


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* Wrestling/{{PAC}}. Debuted in 2004.
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* Creator/TitoOrtiz: Debuted in 2005, though mainly competed in TNA.
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* ''Wrestling/PlaneRideFromHell'': Happened on May 5, 2002.
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* Wrestling/LaResistanceWrestling: Debuted in 2003, broke up in 2005.

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* Wrestling/LaResistanceWrestling: Wrestling/LaResistanceTagTeam: Debuted in 2003, broke up in 2005.
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* Wrestling/ThePublicEnemyWrestling: Team ended when Flyboy Rocco Rock died in 2002.

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* Wrestling/ThePublicEnemyWrestling: Wrestling/ThePublicEnemyTagTeam: Team ended when Flyboy Rocco Rock died in 2002.
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* Wrestling/BamBamBigelow: Passed away on April 2007.


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* Wrestling/MissElizabeth: Passed away on May 2003.


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* Wrestling/SylvesterTerkay
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* ''Wrestling/NoWayOutWrestling'': Ceased after 2009. Returned in for a single time (so far) in 2012.

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* ''Wrestling/NoWayOutWrestling'': ''Wrestling/{{No Way Out|WWE}}'': Ceased after 2009. Returned in for a single time (so far) in 2012.



* ''Wrestling/UnforgivenWrestling''. Ceased after 2008.

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* ''Wrestling/UnforgivenWrestling''.''Wrestling/{{Unforgiven|WWE}}''. Ceased after 2008.

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