WWE: Ranking John Cena's 14 World Title Reigns - From Worst To Best

8. World Heavyweight Championship (3rd World Heavyweight Championship, 14th Overall) October 27, 2013 - December 15, 2013

Cena's most recent championship run was the feather in the cap to another incredible rehabilitation effort from a career-threatening injury, which has almost become as much of a trademark of Cena's career as holding championships or his hightop fade. The injury was a torn bicep that would normally keep a person on the shelf for six months. Cena was back in action in eight weeks, his first match back a World Heavyweight Championship opportunity against Alberto Del Rio at Hell In A Cell defeating Del Rio for the championship. Cena would also defend the championship against Del Rio the next month at Survivor Series. This led to Cena challenging The Apex Predator, Orton in what would eventually become a title unification match at TLC: Tables, Ladders And Chairs in December. Cena would lose the match. The significance of this championship however is actually one of the more important in history as it puts Cena in the history book as the final World Heavyweight Champion. a championship that has lineage going back 109 years. It also allowed Cena to be a conduit for that history to be joined with the rich history of the WWE Championship.