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 WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS OF ALL TIME

Won By

Won From

Location

Date

Triple H *

Awarded

Milwaukee, WI

September 2, 2002

Shawn Michaels

Triple H

New York, NY

November 17, 2002

Triple H (2)

Shawn Michaels

Fort Lauderdale, FL

December 15, 2002

Goldberg

Triple H

Hershey, PA

September 21, 2003

Triple H (3)

Goldberg

Orlando, FL

December 14, 2003

Chris Benoit

Triple H

New York, NY

March 14, 2004

Randy Orton

Chris Benoit

Toronto, Ontario

August 15, 2004

Triple H (4)

Randy Orton

Portland, OR

September 12, 2004

Triple H (5)**

Elimination Chamber

San Juan, Puerto Rico

January 9, 2005

Batista ***

Triple H

Los Angeles, CA

April 4, 2005

Kurt Angle ****

Battle Royal

Philadelphia, PA

January 10, 2006

Rey Mysterio

Kurt Angle

Chicago, IL

April 2, 2006

King Booker

Rey Mysterio

Indianapolis, IN

July 23, 2006

Batista (2)

King Booker Philadelphia, PA November 26, 2006
The Undertaker Batista Detroit, MC April 1, 2007
Edge ***** The Undertaker Pittsburgh, PA May 8, 2007
The Great Khali ****** Battle Royal Laredo, TX July 20, 2007
Batista (3) The Great Khali Memphis, TN September 16, 2007
Edge (2) Batista Pittsburgh, PA December 16, 2007
The Undertaker (2) ******* Edge Orlando, FL March 30, 2008
Edge (3) The Undertaker San Diego, CA June 1, 2008
CM Punk ******* Edge Oklahoma City, OK June 30, 2008
Chris Jericho ******** CM Punk Cleveland, OH September 7, 2008
Batista Chris Jericho Phoenix, AZ October 26, 2008
Chris Jericho (2) Batista Tampa, FL November 3, 2008
John Cena Chris Jericho Boston, MA November 23, 2008
Edge (4) ********* Elimination Chamber Seattle, WS February 15, 2009
John Cena (2) Edge Houston, TX April 5, 2009
Edge (5) John Cena Providence, RI 26 April, 2009
Jeff Hardy Edge New Orleans, LA June 7, 2009
CM Punk (2)
**********
Jeff Hardy New Orleans, LA June 7, 2009
Jeff Hardy (3) CM Punk Philadelphia, PA July 26, 2009
CM Punk (3) Jeff Hardy Los Angeles, CA August 23, 2009
The Undertaker (3) CM Punk Newark, NJ October 4, 2009
Chris Jericho (3) The Undertaker St. Louis, MO February 21, 2010
Jack Swagger Chris Jericho Las Vegas, NV March 30, 2010
Rey Mysterio (2) Jack Swagger Uniondale, NY June 20, 2010
Kane Rey Mysterio Kansas City, MO July 18, 2010
Edge (6) Kane Houston, TX December 19, 2010
Dolph Ziggler Edge San Diego, CA February 15, 2011
Edge (7) *********** Dolph Ziggler San Diego, CA February 15, 2011
Christian Alberto Del Rio Tampa, FL May 1, 2011
Randy Orton (2) Christian Orlando, FL May 3, 2011

 * Prior to Sept. 2, 2002, WWE recognized only one World Champion, and that champion represented both RAW and SmackDown! Just after SummerSlam, however,
champion Brock Lesnar inked a deal to become exclusive to SmackDown!,
leaving RAW without a champion.
RAW General Manager Eric Bischoff then declared that since Lesnar had left for SmackDown!, that RAW needed its own champion. So with that, he opened a briefcase and pulled out the old WCW Championship and gave it to Triple H, naming him the first World Heavyweight Champion.

** The World Heavyweight Championship was vacated by Raw General Manager
Eric Bischoff following a controversial Triple Threat Match involving Edge, Chris Benoit and Triple H.

*** Batista was drafted to SmackDown! on June 30, 2005 along with the World Heavyweight title.

**** Batista was forced to vacate the World Heavyweight Title due to a triceps injury
wich required surgery. Kurt Angle won the vacated title that same night in a
Battle Royal, last eliminating Mark Henry for the gold.

***** Edge cashed in his "Money in the Bank" contract after The Undertaker and Batista fought
to a draw in a steel cage match on SmackDown!.

****** Edge was forced to relinquish the title on the July 20, 2007 edition of SmackDown! in Laredo, Texas due to a torn pectoral muscle. Khali won a 20-man battle royal on the same night to win the title.

******* (April 29, 2008) Vacated after general manager Vickie Guerrero stripped The Undertaker of
the championship because she felt The Undertaker's new choke hold was too dangerous
to the Smackdown! wrestlers.

******* CM Punk defeated Edge on an episode of Raw on June 30, 2008 via cashing in his Money in the Bank contract. Following the 2008 WWE Draft, Raw had been left without a world championship. CM Punk's win brought the World Heavyweight title back to Raw as its new top championship.

******** Chris Jericho won the title at Unforgiven in a Championship Scramble
as a late replacement for CM Punk.

********* Before the RAW's Elimination Chamber-match began,
Edge attacked
Kofi Kingston, replaced him in the match and won the match for the World title.

********** CM Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank contract after Jeff Hardy had won the World title from Edge in a Ladder-match.

*********** Edge was stripped as a result of using the spear (which had been banned) in a previous match by Vickie Guerrero, who then awarded the belt to Ziggler. But Theodore Long made a match right after Dolph Ziggler was awarded and Edge won back the World title.

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