World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)
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 three men's world titles on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Championship and WWE Universal Championship, the two of which are currently held jointly and defended as the Undisputed WWE Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Damian Priest, who is in his first reign. He won the title by defeating Drew McIntyre in his Money in the Bank cash-in match during night two of WrestleMania XL on April 7, 2024.
Inaugural champion Seth "Freakin" Rollins, shown here with the WWE Championship
Current champion Damian Priest
Raw is a brand of the American professional wrestling promotion WWE that was established on March 25, 2002. Brands are divisions of WWE's roster where wrestlers are assigned to perform on a weekly basis when a brand extension is in effect. Wrestlers assigned to Raw primarily appear on the brand's weekly television program, Monday Night Raw, also referred to simply as Raw. It is one of WWE's two main brands, along with SmackDown, collectively referred to as WWE's main roster. The brand was discontinued between August 2011 and July 2016.
Eric Bischoff was the first Raw General Manager.
Image: Damian Priest WHC WWE Live Birmingham April 2024 (cropped)
Image: Becky Lynch July 2019
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