10 Seriously Underrated WWE World Title Matches

The wrestling world is on the edge of its collective seat as we await the WWE brand split. For the first time since 2011 company will once again (from July) have exclusive Raw and Smackdown rosters. Details are sparse at the present moment, which has led to much theorising, speculation and rumour.

One logical proposal is that a new secondary WWE heavyweight title will be introduced. Since Triple H was awarded the World Heavyweight Title on the September 2nd 2002 episode of Raw, right up until TLC 2013 where the WHC and WWE Titles were unified, the company had two recognised world champions (no, I do not count the ECW Title), with the belts switching between the red and blue brands on occasion.

WWE Hall of Famer and current on-air personality Booker T recently said in an interview with WrestleZone Radio that a second main title could be implemented, something which the former 5-time WCW and 1-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion is excited about.

As well he should be, because Booker is a man who had several great World Heavyweight Championship matches. Some of those matches have flown under the radio, though, a consequence of the sheer volume of WWE/WHC title matches the company presented over the years.

With the potential introduction of a new major title on the horizon, it got me thinking about the old World Heavyweight Title and all of the great matches that were had over it.

Here are ten of the most underrated.

Eddie Guerrero held the WWE Title for five testing months in 2004, before he was relieved of the strap for his own good (he was beginning to crack under the pressure of being Smackdown's standard bearer). Over the next year-and-a-half, Latino Heat would prove to WWE that he belonged to be fighting for the company's biggest prize by producing some of the best work of his career.

In September of 2005 he was coming off the back of a hot feud with longtime frenemy Rey Mysterio and was chosen to be World Heavyweight Champion Batista's next major opponent. Eddie became a tweener for the buildup, forming a tag team with The Animal all while big Dave wasn't sure what to make of his new partner's apparent change of heart.

This was, after all, a man who had tried to break up a family just a couple of months prior.

That was the hook going into their WHC showdown at No Mercy; would Eddie revert to his old lying, cheating and stealing ways in his pursuit of championship gold? Was the friendship with Batista a ruse?He spent the match trying to stay reformed and fight his natural, devious instincts, working over the back of the champion expertly but doing so by keeping it within the rules.

Towards the end of the match, the ref was bumped and Eddie had the opportunity to crack Batista with a steel chair, but he declined. It would turn out to be his downfall. After missing a Frog Splash, Guerrero succumbed to a thunderous spinebuster and went down for the three.

It was a good end to a great, seriously underrated World Heavyweight Title match. It's even more impressive when you take into consideration the very real amount of pain Guerrero was in at the time. He worked very hard to get the match and the story over, a true superstar worker until the end.