Grand Slam Champions

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Xero I think the biggest thing we all forget is that the WCW title was called the World Heavyweight Championship for a bit after the Invasion angle and when Jericho won it. Back then it definitely held the WCW lineage. I think it makes sense to look at it like this: The WCW title was absorbed into the WWE Championship when Jericho won it. The WCW lineage stops there. When Bischoff brought it back, it WAS the same title, but the WCW lineage stayed with the WWE championship. My head hurts.

I believe the WCW Title was actually called the "World Championship" when the WWE defeated The Alliance at Survivor Series. I don't remember "Heavyweight" ever being in there.

But you are basically right in this thread. Personally, I thought of the Undisputed Championship as a completely new title when Chris Jericho combined the WWE Title and WCW Title together at the original Vengeance PPV, and that it was just represented by two title belts. Then Triple H turned it into one, and I was like "OK, cool."

When Brock Lesnar took the belt to SmackDown!, and they started calling it the "WWE Championship," I believe that's where they pretty much ignored the WCW Title history in the belt. It was still represented by the same piece of gold as the Undisputed Championship was, but it was no longer called "Undisputed."

Eric Bischoff created a new championship to award to Triple H on RAW, and my theory is that seeing as the WCW Title was imbedded into the WCW Title, and some sort of contract said that it couldn't be revived, he just took the old physical belt that represented the WCW Title, and created the "World Heavyweight Championship" to stir up feelings of the old days.

The World Heavyweight Title is only related to the WCW Title by how they are physically displayed. If the belt is a house, then the WCW Title history was its past residents, and before it was the NWA Title history. Since 2002, the World Heavyweight Championship lineage has been living there.