The World Heavyweight Championship is considered to be one of the most prestigious belts in the history of the professional wrestling business. Primarily featuring in the World Championship Wrestling (WCW), this belt made its way to the WWE after Vince McMahon acquired the brand from Eric Bischoff in the late 90s.
Dubbed as the ‘Big Gold Belt’ many of the fans also believe that the World Heavyweight Championship is also considered one of the most beautiful belts of all time. Unfortunately, WWE retired the belt for almost seven years now and didn’t bring it back despite a large number of wrestling fans all over the planet wanting to see it on their television programming.
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Recently, rumors of WWE bringing the World Heavyweight Championship back resurfaced and we have an update. The ‘Belt Fan Dan’ (a Twitter account that has broken several stories regarding WWE’s Championship belts in the past) has confirmed that this old-school belt will only be returning in form of replica titles so that those could be sold in the WWE Shop.
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Here’s what the account posted and thereby provided the ultimate rumor killer,
“Since people want to take my private conversations and post them elsewhere for clout, I’ll just say this:
Rumor is WWE is casting one of the early J-Mar 3D CNC Big Gold belts and will be offering replicas in the Fall.
Seems to be a response to the popularity of the Fandu.”
As mentioned above, the “Big Gold Belt” World Heavyweight Championship was last seen on TV in 2014. Brock Lesnar was the final man to officially hold it on the night of SummerSlam that year. He was the co WWE and world titleholder after the main event of the PPV. The next night on Raw, the current version of the WWE Championship belt was introduced which was a bit modified in recent years.
The final solo holder of the World Heavyweight Championship was John Cena who won the belt from Alberto Del Rio. Later, the belt was unified with the WWE Championship and Randy Orton was the man to hold both the belts for the first time. As for the most number of reigns with the Heavyweight title, WWE Hall of Famer Edge holds the record who has seven separate runs with it.
