World Heavyweight Championship

[10.0] "The smackdown championship was awesome man. It had some weaker reigns but nothing to diminish what was all in all a great legacy all its own and distinct from WCW, which despite its obvious blemishes might sentimentally be my favorite belt ever. I'd say this belt having a short lifespan may have aided it, as its something I do remember fondly as the centerpiece of the Hardy-Punk feuds or the Angle-Mysterio match. It was just, awesome."

[9.0] "The World Heavyweight Championship had an iconic design and legendary wrestlers who held it. Champions such as Triple H, Batista, Edge, The Undertaker, Rey Mysterio, CM Punk, and Daniel Bryan helped create memorable reigns and major rivalries. It helped to elevate rising stars and occasionally surpass the WWE Championship in importance. However, its history was also weakened by poorly received reigns, notably those of The Great Khali, Jack Swagger, and Alberto Del Rio, as well as periods of uninspired booking. By its final years, the championship had clearly become secondary to the WWE Championship. Despite these shortcomings, its design, lineage, and memorable moments make it a belt synonymous with great memories for a lot of people, including me."

[9.0] "A very beautiful championship. There have been some pretty good holders for it. Triple H Edge Batista Undertaker Kurt Angle Jericho Punk. But there have been some really bad holders. The Great Kali Kane Del Rio Ziggler. It was honestly a much design then the spinner belt. I also think that instead of creating that horrible belt design in the universe championship i personally would have brought back the big gold with few updates to it."

[6.0] "This title was really good in the early days but fizzled out. It had some cool moments, like Shawn Michaels's win in the Elimination Chamber, Benoit and Mysterio's wins at WrestleMania, and the Batista vs Undertaker feud, but it also had plenty of down moments. Triple H's long drawn out boring reigns really degraded this title, and then later on you had champs like Great Khali, Jack Swagger, Alberto del Rio and Big Show who had no business being in a world title picture. It was promoted as a world title but ultimately always second fiddle to the WWE Championship"

[9.0] "Only not a 10 as it had some pretty bad holders and hasn't always been as important as the World title. Still undeniably important, however, and has had some legendary holders."

[8.0] "An excellent world title that was made to feel like the biggest title in the world when guys like Batista and Undertaker held it. Some people say it was always second fiddle to the WWE Championship, and I find that laughable when this title main-evented three Wrestlemanias and probably should've also main-evented Wrestlemania 23. Like any title, there are some total duds as champions. Jack Swagger, Alberto del Rio, and Great Khali come to mind, but the lineage is more impressive than most titles in wrestling. Batista, Edge, and Undertaker truly made this title THE top title in WWE when they held it. There are a few hiccups in its history that prevent me from awarding a 9/10. Most notably, it being awarded to its inaugural champion instead of being won, and then its long, slow death where it definitely was inferior to the WWE title. I will say that it NEVER should have been deactivated, and the stupid Universal Championship never should have existed."

[6.0] "This belt was almost always the after thought when compared to the WWE title, it had its moments in the sun but it also had its Jack Swagger title reigns and so on. The big gold belt was a good look and simply calling it the "world heavyweight championship" worked well to make it seem classy and important, even if it wasn't."

[8.0] "The only negative I can give this belt is it's lackluster booking. Some superstars were able to make it feel like a very big deal, sometimes bigger than the WWE championship, but ultimately it really felt like a mid card belt trying to be a world championship. When booked right, however, it is absolutely phenomenal, especially at the hands of people like Daniel Bryan, Mark Henry, Edge, etc. It's a damn shame they deactivated it, something that will always confuse me. We could've avoided the Universal Championship."

[10.0] "Arguably the greatest belt design in the history of wrestling. Deactivating it was a huge mistake. This is an iconic design and is befitting a champion."

"[10] This is still my all-time favorite title. It was so beautiful and felt like a title you would fight for. The WWE/F title has more lineage but it's always felt like the championship that while everyone in the company should strive to have once, the World Heavyweight Title/Big Goldie is just too prestigious to the point with all the negatives that have occurred, that WHC is still the most prestigious."

[10.0] "I miss this design. The new one is not bad but no body likes the huge W in the middle of it. This one is the GOAT of all titles"

[8.0] "Last time the Big Gold Belt was used. Given to some big stars after the reign of terror. Had its moments good and bad but was a generally a good title in terms of feuds and matches."

[10.0] "Big gold will never get old in my mind. That creation just screams "prestigious" and represents good times for WWE."

[9.0] "What good memories this championship brings me, it is true that some reigns left much to be desired, but in general it makes us have tremendous nostalgia."

[8.0] "The World Heavyweight Champion was a good title overall. It was the WWE's main title for years until Cena was established as the top guy and after that, it served as a "rocket launcher" for guys like Mysterio, Punk, Daniel Bryan etc. However, in its final years, the title was an afterthought and in 2013 was basically what the WWE Championship is nowadays."

[9.0] "The best world title WWE every had, constantly in more interesting situations then the WWE title at this point in time. Yes we had some terrible reigns but barely any belt is safe from that, but match quality was always there and high."

[9.0] "This beautiful title (a real pleasure for the eyes that fits to almost any wrestler) was a great opposition to the more historical valued WWE Championship. Its title history had its big ups and big downs. Not really surprising, if you consider it lived between 2002 and 2013. Though it was indeed the championship to intensify the dominance of several people, in contrast to this it was also the championship to create the main-event stage for "rising stars" (in 2000s-2010s standards) (Batista, CM Punk, ... ) effectively. On top of that it filled the missing key in some wrestlers' careers (Jeff Hardy, Mark Henry). All in all to me it's the title that actually survived bad times and presents the bigger highlights of its decade."

[8.0] "I will give a ten but because of stupid 2011-13 storyline I give 8 . Most legendary WWE championship ."

[6.0] "It's hard for a title to gain prestige when it's first champion is decided by the belt literally being pulled out of a briefcase and handed to someone. And it's prestige wasn't helped by the fact that the first champion was Triple H and both the title and Raw became his personal playground for almost three years, and that virtually every challenger came out of feuding with Triple H as damaged goods. But once they decided to actually get someone over, Batista, the title started to mean something. Yet Batista's run as champion was somewhat disappointing as he was never as hot as he was when he was feuding with Triple H, and he never had another hot feud. And after Batista's reign, they either gave long runs to the wrong guys or gave short or otherwise mismanaged runs to the right guys, and once it was merged with the WWE Championship, it was very much a case of putting the title out of its misery."

[8.0] "The Big Gold was certainly held by a lot of great wrestlers and most of them were booked well as champions. Obvious exceptions (mostly Khali) exist but this is still a great championship."

[5.0] "WWE made the big gold belt look like a joke in the past 4-5 years."

[8.0] "Many great wrestlers have held this belt, and there have been memorable reigns so it is special and a worthy accomplishment. Still, I would much rather see one unified world championship than two. I understand why they created the belt back in 2001 for Smackdown, but it seems redundant to me."

[8.0] "The title is not being treated as a serious world title anymore. It seems like the WWE title is the only prominent title again."

[9.0] "Best title in WWE modern history, except for Khali and that stuff."