Update On How Long WWE Planned To Introduce New World Heavyweight Title

In a promo segment on WWE Raw this week, Triple H announced a new World Heavyweight Champion would be crowned on May 27 at WWE Night of Champions. 

The show takes place in Saudi Arabia. The title will be defended on the opposite brand that Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns is drafted to. 

Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the decision to do the second top title dates to WrestleMania 38.

“The idea of bringing back the second title dates back literally to when the titles were unified at the April 3, 2022, WrestleMania show in Dallas when Roman Reigns beat Brock Lesnar. We had been told before the match that the company felt it needed two titles, but also based on the Mania stipulation, it had to wait a certain length of time before creating the second one,” Meltzer wrote.

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