Can You Name Every WWE World Heavyweight Champion Ever?

How well do you know the lineage of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship?

by Andrew Pollard
Edge World Heavyweight Champion 2009
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While it's quite the topic of discussion these days, some WWE fans would say that the company's World Heavyweight Championship is currently a bigger deal than the WWE Championship. Whether you prefer the top men's prize on Raw or the top men's prize on SmackDown, we've recently covered a quiz looking at every WWE Champion ever, so it's only right that our attention now switches to the World Heavyweight Championship.

The simple question here is whether you can correctly name every single person to hold the World Heavyweight Title.

However, not only does this quiz cover the lineage of the World Heavyweight Championship that was brought into existence in April 2023, but we're also including the title that WWE introduced in 2002. Pulling plenty of inspiration from WCW's famed Big Gold, that World Heavyweight Championship was kayfabe brought to life by Eric Bischoff, and it would stay in existence until December 2013, when it was unified with the WWE Championship.

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So, you've got that 2002 to 2013 run and the 2023 to present-day run to go through here. And to clarify, it's a case of naming each individual to hold that prize, rather than having to name people multiple times if they've had multiple reigns. As a little bit of a tip, there are currently 31 different wrestlers to name as of this writing.

With that in mind, then, it's time to find out exactly just how much of a wrestling fan you are, as it's time to put your knowledge to the test.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks/Saints, Jamie Hayter, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is a long-standing season ticket holder and an FSA Award-winner for his time co-hosting the Fearless in Devotion podcast.