Originally Posted by tomamar04
After the draft, which split Raw and Smackdown into 2 seperate brands, the WWE championship became exclusive to Smackdown, while Raw was presented with the World Heavyweight Championship, which is kinda based on the old WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
But After WM21, there was another draft, and the World Heavyweight Champion (Batista at the time) was drafted from Raw to Smackdown, and the WWE champion (John Cena) went in the other direction.
Hope that made sense:)