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''This article is about WWE's recently unified World Championship, the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, not to be confused with the Undisputed WWE Championship (2001-2002). For WWE's long-standing world championship see WWE Championship. For WWE's world title created in 2016 see the WWE Universal Championship.''

The Undisputed WWE Universal Championship is a world heavyweight championship created by the professional wrestling entertainment promotion WWE. The Undisputed WWE Universal Championship exists whenever a wrestler holds both the WWE Universal Championship and the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. While both championships are defended simultaneously, they both retain their individual lineages.

Reigns
As of April 25th, 2023, Roman Reigns is the only wrestler to have ever simultaneously held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and WWE Universal Championship. Reigns defeated "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman in a No Holds Barred triple threat match at the live event Payback on August 30th, 2020 to win the Universal championship. He would later defeat the 2022 Royale Rumble winner and WWE Champion Brock Lesnar on night 2 of WrestleMania 38 on April 3rd, 2022 in a winner takes all match.

Reception
Initial Reaction to the unification of the Universal Championship and WWE Heavyweight Championship was mixed between fans and critics. Fox Sports WWE Analyst, Ryan Satin, said "Building Roman Reigns' legacy is important to the brand, so having him win was the right call. " Alex McCarthy from talksport said, "Reigns, 36, is now firmly entrenched as WWE’s poster boy and has undoubtedly reached the apex of his career." While some critics and fans praised the decision to unify the titles to Reigns, some criticized the decision due to Romans part-time contract leaving WWE without a World Champion for both weekly shows, Raw and Smackdown, almost every week. Kevin Berge from Bleacherreport criticized the decision to unify the titles, "Weekly programming should revolve around the championships The Head of the Table holds. Each week he does not appear, the relevance of his title reign wanes."