10 UGLIEST Wrestling Championships Ever
10. WWE World Heavyweight Championship (2023-Present)
Indeed the stimulus for such a list, WWE's new World Heavyweight title is gross.
It illustrates the "Can I copy your homework?" meme flawlessly, "flawlessly" in this case being a pessimistic assertion. Reports of Paul 'Triple H' Levesque's eagerness to introduce a new World title were accompanied by rumours of the Big Gold World Heavyweight title being earmarked for a potential comeback, itself having been made redundant in December 2013 when Randy Orton unified it with his WWE title and the physical strap fading from existence the following August in favour of a new solitary WWE World Heavyweight title belt. Instead, WWE's beltmakers took the Big Gold title, strapped a gargantuan 'W' in the middle, and called it a day, all but cheapening the merit the once-cherished title embodied.
The formulation of this new title was necessitated; Roman Reigns' part-timer status while Undisputed WWE Universal Champion has steadily grown laborious. His matches, too, have gradually become strenuous thirty-minute stall-fests with the same uninteresting interference spots. The idea of this new World Heavyweight title being a championship for the workhorses of WWE, as designated by a fierce Seth Rollins promo on Raw, will carry significant weight if this is indeed the case.
Until then though, the World Heavyweight title carries the same sordid allure as the originally-red Universal title.