Since April 2022, the title has represented one-half of the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, with the other half represented by the Universal Championship, but both titles have retained their individual lineages. In December 2016, WWE again shortened the title's name back to WWE Championship. It became designated to the SmackDown brand and WWE again established an alternate world title known as the WWE Universal Championship for the Raw brand. On June 27, 2016, the name was shortened back to the WWE Championship, before assuming the WWE World Championship name on July 26, when the brand extension returned. When WWE Champion Randy Orton defeated World Heavyweight Champion John Cena at the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view event on December 15, 2013, the World Heavyweight Championship was unified with the WWE Championship, resulting in the retiring of the former, as well as the renaming of the latter to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. It was vacated and decommissioned when the ECW brand disbanded in 2010. A third alternate world title, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, was reactivated for the ECW brand in 2006. The title, now renamed the WWE Championship, was then designated to the SmackDown brand while WWE established an alternate world title known as the World Heavyweight Championship for the Raw brand. In 2002, the WWF was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and split its roster into two brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the first world title established in WWE, at the time known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (In 2001, it was unified with the World Championship and became the Undisputed WWF Championship. The WWE Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in WWE, currently defended on the SmackDown brand. Four-time and current champion Roman Reigns
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