[tps_title]Reunited: The WWE World Heavyweight Championship[/tps_title]
Like Chris Jericho four years prior, Randy Orton unified WWE’s two top titles when he defeated John Cena at Tables, Ladders, and Chairs in December 2013 to win the World Heavyweight Championship (he’d previously won the vacated WWE Championship at Hell in a Cell in October 2013). The World Heavyweight Championship was subsequently retired, but Orton continued to carry both Big Gold and the WWE Championship to dignify his status as the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
After Brock Lesnar won the championship at SummerSlam in August 2014, a new single WWE World Heavyweight Championship (pictured above) was introduced. This design remains the current one for the WWE Championship.