>>9925554both, actually. They brought back the World Heavyweight Championship as a THIRD world title. And they didn't use big gold, they used an ugly piece of shit that was kind of based on big gold. Thing is, WWE has no legitimate claim on the real world heavyweight championship which began with Hackenschmidt and Gotch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heavyweight_Wrestling_Championship_(original_version)WWE's connection to that title lineage is HIGHLY indirect.
>title created in 1905>Eventually becomes disputed between several supposed champions>The NWA is created in 1948 to fix this and protect the integrity of the world championship. >NWA protects that legacy until the collapse of jim crockett promotions>WCW partners with the NWA upon its creation in 1988, unifying the WCW world title with the NWA world title>A couple of years later, WCW pisses off the NWA and they split. >WCW still claims that their champions can trace their lineage back to 1905, but that isn't true because the NWA and WCW belts are no longer unified. >WCW gets bought by WWE>WWE also starts claiming a connection to the original title, bringing it back as a secondary world title for a little while. It wasn't legit when WCW claimed a connection to the original title, and so it isn't legit for WWE to do that either.
