Claim: John Cena has won a title.

The World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by WWE . It was one of two top championships in WWE from 2002 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2013 , complementing the WWE Championship , and one of three top championships from 2006 to 2010 with the addition of the ECW World Heavyweight Championship .   The title was established under the Raw brand in 2002 , after Raw and SmackDown became distinct brands under WWE , and moved between both brands on different occasions -LRB- mainly as a result of the WWE draft -RRB- until August 29 , 2011 , when all programming became full roster `` supershows '' . The World Heavyweight Championship was retired at the WWE pay-per-view , TLC : Tables , Ladders & Chairs , on December 15 , 2013 , when it was unified with the WWE Championship . The unified championship became the WWE World Heavyweight Championship , retaining the lineage of the WWE Championship . Triple H was the inaugural World Heavyweight Champion , with Randy Orton being the last .   The title was one of six to be represented by the historic Big Gold Belt , first introduced in 1986 . Its heritage can be traced back to the first world heavyweight championship , thereby giving the belt a legacy over 100 years old , the oldest in the world .