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WWE Intercontinental Championship
The Intercontinental Championship current design
The Intercontinental Championship current design
Details
Current
champion(s)
James Storm
Date won May 20, 2013
(aired May 20, 2013)
Date introduced 2005
Promotion WWE The E-Fed
Brand Monday Night RAW

The WWE Intercontinental Championship is the second-tier championship title in the WWE E-Fed federation on Monday Night RAW; the first brand of the company. The first champion was Carlito who defeated Chris Jericho to become the inaugural champion. The current champion is James Storm who is in his first reign, after defeating Dolph Ziggler on the May 20, 2013 episode of RAW. Jeff Hardy and Edge hold the record for the most reigns with four reigns each. The shortest reign lasted 7 days as both Christian Cage and Drew McIntyre won the title and lost it a week later. Billy Cassidy currently holds the record for longest reign (as an individual) with 252 days. The record was previously held by Tyler Chandler who held it for 154 days.


Title history[]

Key[]

# The overall championship reign
Date The date in which the championship was obtained
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Venue The event where the championship was obtained
Notes Any additional important information on how the championship changed hands
Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
# Wrestler Name Reign Date Days held Venue Notes
1 Carlito 1 July 31, 2005 21 Bad Blood

Carlito defeated Chris Jericho to become the inaugural champion.

2 Brock Lesnar 1 August 21, 2005 73 SummerSlam
3 Edge 1 November 1, 2005 117 Taboo Tuesday
4 Matt Cross 1 February 27, 2006 40 RAW
5 Sean O'Haire 1 April 9, 2006 28 WrestleMania 22
6 Matt Cross 2 May 7, 2006 42 Backlash
Vacated June 19, 2006 RAW

The title was vacated following Cross' release from the company

7 Christian Cage 1 July 3, 2006 7 RAW

Christian won the vacant title in a Gauntlet match on RAW

8 Thomas Brewington 1 July 10, 2006 67 RAW
9 Sylvan 1 September 17, 2006 50 Unforgiven
10 Chris Jericho 1 November 11, 2006 89 Taboo Tuesday
11 Edge 2 February 6, 2007 28 Royal Rumble

Chris Jericho had vacated the title prior to the match PPV and Edge faced Rob Conway for the vacant championship

12 Rob Conway 1 March 4, 2007 21 RAW
13 Edge 3 March 25, 2007 35 Bad Blood
Vacated April 30, 2007 RAW
14 Jeff Hardy 1 May 7, 2007 96 RAW

Hardy defeated both Gregory Helms and Chris Sabin for the vacant title

Vacated September 3, 2007 SummerSlamiversary
15 Chris Sabin 1 September 30, 2007 51 Unforgiven

Sabin defeated Alex Shelley to win the vacant title

16 Alex Shelley 1 November 21, 2007 110 Taboo Tuesday
17 Jeff Hardy 2 March 31, 2008 29 WrestleMania
18 Alex Shelley 2 April 30, 2008 25 Bad Blood

Shelley vacated the championship on an episode of SmackDown

19 Pete Gas 1 June 22, 2008 62 Insurrextion

Gas defeated Kenny Dykstra for the vacant championship

Vacated August 24, 2008 SummerSlammiversary
20 CM Punk 1 September 1, 2008 22 RAW

CM Punk defeated Chase Stevens to win the vacant championship

21 Buschski 1 September 22, 2008 123 Unforgiven
22 Rob Van Dam 1 January 25, 2009 21 New Years Revolution
23 Buschski 2 February 16, 2009 14 Royal Rumble
24 Buschski & Rob Van Dam 3 (Buschski) 2 (Van Dam) March 9, 2009 33 WrestleMania

There was a controversial finish between Buschski and Van Dam so they were named Co-Champions. This began Buschski's third reign as Intercontinental Champion while Van Dam began his second reign.

25 Shiima Xion 1 April 12, 2009 28 WrestleMania

Shiima defeated both Rob Van Dam and Buschski in a triple threat match to become the sole Intercontinental Champion

26 CM Punk 2 May 10, 2009 40 Backlash
27 Kevin Nash 1 June 30, 2009 102 Insurrextion
28 Zack Ryder 1 October 12, 2009 40 RAW
29 Tyler Chandler 1 November 22, 2009 154 Survivor Series

On March 26th, 2010 Chandler became the longest reigning Intercontinental Champion in WWE history surpassing Buschski's 123 day reign. He would hold it until November 28, 2011 when Billy Cassidy surpassed him at 155 days, who would later go on to hold the title for 252 days.

30 Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin 3 (Alex Shelley) 2 (Chris Sabin) April 25, 2010 42 RAW

Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin both pinned reigning champion Tyler Chandler thus making them co-champions

31 Drew McIntyre 1 June 7, 2010 7 RAW

Drew McIntyre beat Chris Sabin who had gone on to become the sole holder of the title after Alex Shelley was released

32 The Miz 1 June 14, 2010 55 RAW

The Miz won a battle royal on RAW to be crowned the new champion

33 Chris Sabin 3 August 9, 2010 32 RAW
34 Brendan Moretti 1 September 26, 2010 62 Night of Champions

Christian and Tyler Chandler were also involved in the match including then champion Chris Sabin

35 Dolph Ziggler 1 November 28, 2010 42 Survivor Series

Chris Sabin was also involved in the match including then champion Brendan Moretti

36 The Miz 2 January 9, 2011 57 New Years Revolution
37 Ted DiBiase 1 March 6, 2011 48 No Way Out
38 Alberto Del Rio 1 April 24, 2011 36 WrestleMania 27
39 Travis Kooper 1 May 31, 2011 24 RAW
40 Billy Cassidy 1 June 26, 2011 252 Over The Limit

On November 28, 2011 Cassidy would become the longest reigning Intercontinental Champion in WWE history surpassing Tyler Chandler's reign of 154 days.

41 Paul Burchill 1 March 4, 2012 49 Cyber Sunday
42 Billy Cassidy 2 April 22, 2012 15 Wrestlemania 28

Cassidy would be stripped of the championship by Shane McMahon on the May 7, 2012 episode of RAW after failing a drug test.

Vacated May 7, 2012 RAW
43 Paul Burchill 2 June 25, 2012 7 Invasion

Burchill would vacate the championship after being released from the company.

Vacated July 2, 2012 RAW
44 Jeff Hardy 3 July 22, 2012 98 Unforgiven

Hardy would join Edge, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Buschski for most reigns as champion with three.

45 Tyler Chandler 2 October 28, 2012 50 Halloween Havoc
46 Jeff Hardy 4 December 17, 2012 34 RAW
47 Edge 4 January 20, 2013 63 New Years Revolution
48 Matt Hardy 1 March 24, 2013 28 Cyber Sunday
49 Dolph Ziggler 2 April 21, 2013 29 Wrestlemania XXIX
50 James Storm 1 May 20, 2013 7+ Monday Night RAW
Jeff-Hardy-IC-Champ,-Entrance,-RLA-Melb-10.11

Four time Intercontinental Champion, Jeff Hardy

List of combined reigns[]

Indicates the current champion
<1 Indicates the reign was less than 1 day

As of May 27, 2013

Rank Wrestler # of Reigns Combined Days
1. Billy Cassidy 2 267
2. Jeff Hardy 4 257
3. Edge 4 243
4. Tyler Chandler 2 204
5. Alex Shelley 3 177
6. Buschski 3 170
7. Chris Sabin 3 125
8. The Miz 2 112
9. Kevin Nash 1 102
10. Chris Jericho 1 89
11. Matt Cross 2 82
12. Brock Lesnar 1 73
13. Dolph Ziggler 2 71
14. Thomas Brewington 1 67
15. Brendan Moretti 1 62
15. Pete Gas 1 62
15. CM Punk 2 62
16 Paul Burchill 2 56
17. Rob Van Dam 2 54
18. Sylvan 1 50
19. Ted DiBiase 1 48
20. Zack Ryder 1 40
21. Alberto Del Rio 1 36
22. Sean O'Haire 1 28
22. Matt Hardy 1 28
23. Travis Kooper 1 24
24. Carlito 1 21
24. Rob Conway 1 21
25. Christian Cage 1 7
25. Drew McIntyre 1 7
25. James Storm 1 7+

See also[]

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