Like the title states…
Though quest and dialog text refer to us by name, voiced lines use “Champion” for simplicity sake. But I can’t help but canonize it as the PC Lore character being named “Champion” because it’s just a tiny bit funny.
For funsies today, I checked WoW Armory for who on WrA nabbed the name but they haven’t touched the toon in so long, the Armory doesn’t have a page for them anymore. That said, other servers have toons named Champion so it’s clearly a name players can use or could have used at some point.
HERE CAME THE TWIST
As as joke, I then attempted to nab the name myself on the SUPER off-chance it was available and I received the following error: That name is restricted — which is an error that usually appears when players try to use canonical Lore names! 
So… does that mean “Champion” is an official Lore-restricted name now and can’t be used anymore? Does this also mean our unsubbed WrA canonical Champion is forever MIA and we’re a hero-less server?
btw Happy Thursday
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I wish we had a different nickname.
Like “Slick.” Or “Slapmouth.”
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“Oh. Its you.”
“Well well well, if it isn’t my favourite war criminal…”
“We’re out of time and you’re here, you’ll do.”
“Restraining order or not, you need to do this for them!”
“… 
. Well, beggars can’t be choosers. Go do what you do best.”
I get the giggles when I consider we think of the Champion NPCs as friends, leaders and examples to follow, but they consider us deranged omnicidal mercenaries who’d fight Old Gods in the raw for a pair of pants.
"Awww hell, its this one. Don’t make eye contact, praise them, use a positive tone and give them something shiny if they actually succeed."
Twenty years later …
“HOW ARE YOU STILL NOT DEAD YET, ‘CHAMPION’?”
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I like to imagine them saying the character name under a cough.
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You know, reading Gentarn’s post… when it comes down to it, “Champion” is a very frightening murder hobo with unnerving obsessions that flit from continent to continent. Perhaps major Lore characters get along with us because they don’t want to be next on our list.
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I would find all of WoW a hundred times more interesting if this were the case and major leaders were visibly nervous dealing with the guys who routinely kill major leaders.
Well, no, I lied. I wouldn’t find it a hundred times more interesting. That’s a vast exaggeration. I would find it, like, twice as interesting.
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Essentially every time we talk to an NPC, it is this in my mind’s eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSrdmYubl0A&ab_channel=Emwattnotz
On a technical level, the reason you can’t make a character named “Champion” is probably the same reason you can’t make one named “Knight” or “Sir” since these are titles you have to earn in-game.
But on a humor level, yes I want there to be a place-holder NPC for the PC’s named Champion, with so many rumors about them that nothing can ever be confirmed. They’ve been rumored to be every kind of race/class combo imaginable, but so few people live to tell the tale one can never know.
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Most titles are unavailable, correct. There are some titles over the years I’ve attempted to get as a name and they were free. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but:
CEO
COO
Director
Admin (I was surprised at this one at the time. I think they’ve since changed it to be unavailable.)
Supervisor
Manager
I walked through Org once a day on my 56 DK, “Manager of the Horde” and told people to get back to work.
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I got some good ones today!
Bombastic, Brewfest, Lbgtq and
Politics.
It’s Sholaad. You may have missed it because it’s always floating over my head.
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“Champion” is a nice and neutral.
It beats them having to record the same line for every class.
“Welcome Hunter.”
“Welcome Paladin.”
“Welcome Warlock.”
“Welcome Death Knight.”
“Welcome Envoker.”
I really like how most of the nerubian questgivers comment on how violently psychopathically murderous you are and send you on quests for that specific reason.
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Oh, like any NPC in WoW has room to criticize psychotic murderousness. We’re just better at it.
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And that’s after knowing us for five minutes. Imagine if they had our whole rap sheet in front of them.
I don’t think they’d welcome us as convenient murder-hobo allies anymore.
I sorta head canon the stuff I do as my character is a cursed alternate timeline. Seriously, if Juspion is the champion then something seriously is wrong. This is the guy that will run with scissors or microwave aluminum foil and y’all made him champion???