12 WWE PPVs With Two Great World Title Matches
On these nights, one great World Title match was just not good enough...
Since WWE bought WCW all the way back in early 2001, there have been (so far) a total of 126 WWE pay-per-views with two World Championship matches.
The WWE Championship was obviously involved on all of those occasions. The WCW Heavyweight Championship accompanied the WWE's top belt in the first four - all in 2001. The Universal Championship has been the other one for the last 17 - ever since SummerSlam 2016. In all the other 105 times it happened, it was the 'Big Gold' World Heavyweight Championship belt.
There have been some PPVs with one of the matches being really good and the other not so great. Royal Rumble 2003 is a perfect example of that, with Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit being one of the best WWE title matches ever and Triple H vs. Scott Steiner being... one of the worst!
There have also been some where neither championship bout was particularly good.
However, today we'll be looking at twelve very rare occasions on which we were fortunate to see two tremendous WWE World Championship matches on the same night.
12. SummerSlam 2001 (Steve Austin Vs. Kurt Angle; Booker T Vs. The Rock)
At SummerSlam 2001, a WWF/E PPV had more than one World Title bout for the very first time in company history.
Fighting over the WCW World Championship were The Rock and 'The Book', who main-evented the show and delivered one hell of an entertaining match.
In the end, The Rock proved the People's Elbow was the most electrifying move by defeating Booker T and capturing his very first WCW Championship - which is still weird to say in 2019!
Earlier that night, Stone Cold defended his WWF Championship against Kurt Angle in a phenomenal bout that only wasn't a five-star classic because of its DQ finish.
Austin put on a fantastic heel performance, trying every trick in the book to retain the gold no matter "what".
He attacked a number of referees during the match, before an Alliance referee came down and (instead of counting Kurt Angle's pinfall) conveniently disqualified Austin.
Despite being a DQ finish - and everyone hates those - at least this one made sense. The match was perfect up until that point.