10 Best Intercontinental Championship Matches On WWE RAW
The worker's title? These matches suggest it may well be.
The Intercontinental Championship may very well be on its way to being truly relevant once again. After holding the belt for 141 days without doing too much, The Miz has exploded back into the consciousness of the WWE Universe following a thrilling promo exchange with SmackDown GM Daniel Bryan on Talking Smack.
All of a sudden, the IC title is big news once again. The most recent episode of SmackDown opened with a hot segment featuring Miz and number one Contender Dolph Ziggler, and a match between the two has been booked for the upcoming Backlash PPV. A Miz/Ziggler match for the IC title is nothing new, but this time it truly feels exciting.
With the Intercontinental Championship now exclusive to SmackDown the men on RAW won't be vying for the classic strap anytime soon. Now is as good a time as any to look back at the proud history of the Intercontinental Championship on the Monday night flagship show, and boy have there been some barnburners over the years.
Rob Van Dam, Christian, Chris Jericho, Daniel Bryan, Cesaro, Shawn Michaels and other super-workers have fought over the belt in classics on Monday nights.
Here are the 10 greatest Intercontinental Championship matches in the history of WWE RAW.
10. Christian Vs. Booker T - 07/07/03
Booker T has won a whole host of championships throughout his career. We all know that he was a five-time (five-time, five-time, five-time) WCW World Champion as well as a 10-time tag champion and six-time TV champion, and he followed this up in WWE by winning the World Heavyweight Championship once and the United States Championship on three separate occasions. Dude won titles, plain and simple.
He also won the WWE Intercontinental Championship on a single occasion, defeating Christian on an eventful episode of RAW in the summer of 2003. It felt like something of a demotion at the time as Booker had spent the first half of the year feuding with Triple H over the World Heavyweight Championship.
Still, a title is a title, and the IC belt had recently been reactivated and Booker went one-on-one with Christian on Monday night. Things didn't start too well for Book who, for some reason, kept trying to do the Spinaroonie, but at the climax of this excellent match the future King had a huge smile on his face.
A crowd-pleasing end to a competitive match.