5 facts about the WWE Universal Championship

#4 Replacement to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship

Universal Championship replaced the World Heavyweight Championship belt

Many viewers of the WWE might not have a clarity on the origination of the Universal Championship and the deactivation of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The dots can be connected in both the cases, as both the incidents are interlinked. When Randy Orton became the final World Heavyweight champion, he was also the WWE champion as well. The undisputed WWE World Heavyweight Champion was titled as the WWE championship and thus the World Heavyweight Championship retired shortly afterwards.

This caused a crisis as RAW was left without a World Championship. It was then Stephanie McMahon the then commissioner and Mick Foley the general manager on Monday night RAW inaugurated the Universal Championship. The title was given the special status of a world championship and was named in recognition of the WWE 'Universe' as the Universal Championship.