List of all wrestlers who have won World Heavyweight Championship since 2023

Overview

• Seth Rollins was crowned the inaugural World Heavyweight Champion in 2023 and had a run for 316 days with 62 successful defenses
• His title reign ended at WrestleMania XL against Drew McIntyre, which was followed by a successful cash-in from Damian Priest
• Since then, Gunther has won the title twice, while Jey Uso, CM Punk, and Seth have won it once each

The World Heavyweight Championship was reintroduced in 2023, a year after both the world titles in the Men's Division was unified. At WrestleMania 38, Roman Reigns beat Brock Lesnar in a title vs title match, which led to the unification of the WWE Championship and the Universal Championship into the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship. 

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A lack of a world title scenario led to bringing back the World Heavyweight Championship in 2023. AJ Styles and Seth Rollins qualified for the final which saw the latter beat former to win the title. Since then, there have been five other champions, most of whom have won the title since WrestleMania XL.

Barring Seth, five other wrestlers have won the World Heavyweight Championship since 2023. The title has become synonymous with the workhorse champions, as it's being defended often. Especially due to the work rate of the top champions, it has been a highly valued championship.

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List of all wrestlers who have won World Heavyweight Championship since 2023

Drew McIntyre

Drew McIntyre was the one who ended Seth Rollins' title runs at WrestleMania XL. It meant a big deal for him, as it was his first world title win in front of a live audience. However, his celebration didn't last long, as Damian Priest successfully cashed-in the MITB Contract on him to win the title.

CM Punk

Much like McIntyre, CM Punk remained the World Heavyweight Champion for a few minutes. After beating Gunther on Night 1 of SummerSlam 2025, Punk suffered the Ruse of the Century, as Seth confirmed faking his injury to cash-in his MITB contract to reclaim the title he won in 2023.

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Jey Uso

Jey Uso claimed arguably the biggest win of his career by beating Gunther at WrestleMania 41 to win the World Heavyweight Championship. He remained the champion for the next two months with limited title defenses, until Gunther reclaimed the title from him.

Damian Priest

Damian Priest successfully cashed-in his MITB contract against Drew to win the World Heavyweight Championship on Night 2 of WrestleMania XL. He lost it at SummerSlam later that year to Gunther before having successful defenses against Jey, Drew, and Seth.

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Gunther

Gunther is one of the two wrestlers to have won the title twice since 2023. His first win came at SummerSlam 2024 when he overcame Priest. It was his longest reign which lasted till WrestleMania XL. He later reclaimed the title against Jey two months later before eventually losing to Punk at SummerSlam 2025.

Seth Rollins

Seth Rollins had an insane World Heavyweight Championship run for 316 days from May 2023 to WrestleMania XL where he had a whopping 62 title defenses, out of which 12 were televised. Some of his defenses in the period were against Finn Balor, Shinsuke Nakamura, Drew, Jinder Mahal, and others. His second win came at SummerSlam 2025 via a successful MITB cash-in on Punk.