Top 10 WWE Intercontinental Champions

What's up everyone? Back again for more i see? Well the wrestling month continues. You may notice i don't post on the weekends this month. Why? It's so i can have a break is all and you all can catch up if you missed anything :) 

Let's get back to the wrasslin now with a list of the top 10 WWE intercontinental champions! 

10) Pat Patterson

I have only ever seen Pat as one of the stooges or in his hof induction or during anytime he has appeared over the past 20 years in WWE. I never seen the guy wrestle but he is the first intercontinental champion and for that he has to be on my list. 

9) Stone Cold Steve Austin

What can i say about this legend? He won the title first with a broken fricken neck! A two-time Intercontinental Champion, Austin's first title win came at SummerSlam 1997 where a piledriver snapped his neck. Rather than quit, The Bionic Redneck managed to summon the strength to roll up Owen Hart for the victory. This devastating injury caused Austin to vacate the title, but the WWE Hall of Famer would make an amazing return to the ring to capture the championship again that very same year. Expect Austin to feature in more lists down the line...

8) Jeff Hardy

Alright Jeff is one of my all time faves and he is normally the first person who comes to my mind when talking about the IC title. Although he wasn't the biggest man in the WWE locker room, Jeff Hardy was never the kind of Superstar who would back down from a fight. So it should come as no surprise that The Charismatic Enigma defeated dominant competitors like Triple H and Umaga on his way to winning an impressive four Intercontinental Championships. Due to his high-risk style, the majority of Hardy's reigns were brief, but his title matches were always exciting.

7) RVD

RVD is another fave of mine (there are many faves on mine on these lists i do of course). Rob Van Dam's six reigns as Intercontinental Champion are impressive enough, but consider what RVD accomplished with the title and his runs are even more remarkable. In 2002, Mr. Monday Night defeated European Champion Jeff Hardy and Hardcore Champion Tommy Dreamer to unify those two titles with the Intercontinental Championship and bring an even greater legacy to the title. On top of that, his wild Ladder Matches against Eddie Guerrero and Christian were some of the genre’s best. At a time when WWE was inundated with flashy new titles, Van Dam made sure that the Intercontinental Championship — much like himself — remained one of a kind. 

6) HHH

There's more than one reason as to why he is called THE GAME. A five-time champion over the span of a decade, The Game first grabbed the title in 1996 when he was relatively new to the ring. By the time he was the most dominant man in WWE, Triple H reclaimed the Intercontinental Championship in memorable battles with Jeff Hardy and Kane and even defeated The Devil’s Favorite Demon at No Mercy in 2002 to unify Kane's Intercontinental Championship with the World Heavyweight Championship. 

5) The Rock

Just like Triple H, Rocky captured the title when he was new to the scene but this was a clear indicator of a star in the making. He may have been champion, but his nauseating perkiness caused the WWE Universe to chant, "Die, Rocky, die!" which all built up to a change in Rocky Mavia to become....The Rock. An arrogant, eyebrow-raising villain with a bad attitude and a $500 shirt. With this newfound edge, The People's Champion had a second Intercontinental Championship run that lasted for an impressive 265 days and helped establish his reputation as The Most Electrifying Man in All of Entertainment.

4) Shawn Michaels 

The IC title is where HBK first made a name for himself let's be honest. A "Showstopper" even then, HBK's classic Ladder Matches against Razor Ramon are considered some of the best bouts of their era, and his battles against Jeff Jarrett, Diesel and Bret "Hit Man" Hart were just as good. Too often, Michaels' reigns ended in controversy, but his days as Intercontinental Champion were always exhilarating.

3) The Miz

As of writing he is still the IC Champ and his reigns have been damn fine. His talking smack rant was and still is amazing. He makes the title matter again and he is on his seventh reign.

2) The Honky Tonk Man

The man with the longest reign as IC Champ is the one and only Honky Tonk Man at a staggering 454 days! Defeating Ricky Steamboat for the championship in 1987, Honky Tonk Man kept his guitar-strumming fingers on the title for more than a year by any means necessary, including but not limited to getting counted out or disqualified on purpose. It may not have been the noblest reign of all time, but it earned the rock 'n' roller his place in WWE history.

1) Chris Jericho

Quality matches and a quality champion of nine times. No Superstar even comes close to Chris Jericho's record-setting number of Intercontinental Title reigns. First winning the championship from Chyna in winter 1999, Jericho went on to defeat everyone from Jeff Hardy to Rob Van Dam to capture a staggering nine titles over the next decade.

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