World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Raw | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | April 24, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Gunther | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | June 9, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The World Heavyweight Championship is a men's professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two men's world titles on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Gunther, who is in his record-setting second reign. He won the title by defeating Jey Uso on the June 9, 2025, episode of Raw.
The title's creation came as a result of Roman Reigns, who at the time jointly held both the WWE Championship and the WWE Universal Championship as the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship. With the announcement of the 2023 WWE Draft, the World Heavyweight Championship was unveiled on the April 24, 2023, episode of Monday Night Raw and subsequently became exclusive to Raw after Reigns and the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship became exclusive to SmackDown. The inaugural World Heavyweight Champion was Seth "Freakin" Rollins.
The title is distinct from WWE's previous World Heavyweight Championship that was contested from 2002 until 2013 when it was unified into the WWE Championship. Although the two titles share the same name, they do not have a direct lineage. It is the fourth overall men's world championship to be created by WWE, after the WWE Championship (1963), the previous World Heavyweight Championship, and the Universal Championship (2016–2024).