List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE)
- List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE)
This is a chronological list of wrestlers that have been World Heavyweight Champion, sorted by ring name. The World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. It was originally the highest ranked title on the Raw brand but was moved to SmackDown after the 2005 WWE Draft. On June 30, 2008, it resumed being the highest ranked championship on Raw.
WWE officially states the World Heavyweight Championship is not the same title as the WCW Championship or NWA World Heavyweight Championship before it, but rather a new title that does not inherit their championship history. [citeweb|url=http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/worldheavyweight|title=World Heavyweight Championship title history|publisher=World Wrestling Entertainment] The World Heavyweight Championship is the successor to both titles, traced from them just as the WCW Championship was traced from and succeeded the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. [citeweb|url=http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/wcwchampionship/|title=WCW World Heavyweight Championship history|publisher=World Wrestling Entertainment] For a list of wrestlers who have held those belts, see List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions and List of NWA World Heavyweight Champions respectively.
Title history
References
ee also
*List of World Heavyweight Championship reigns by length
External links
* [http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/worldheavyweight/ Official WWE World Heavyweight Championship history]
* [http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwf/wwe-world-h.html World Heavyweight Championship history at Wrestling-Titles.com]
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