10 Wrestlers Who Were Secretly The Greatest Intercontinental Champions Ever

7. Owen Hart

One of the most talented men ever to wear the Intercontinental Championship and never progress to main event status, Owen Hart held the title twice, the second time for only a month or so. The first time was a little different. Hart pinned a little known wrestler by the name of Rocky Maivia on Monday Night RAW in April 1997 to win his first Intercontinental Championship, and dropped the title to one €˜Stone Cold€™ Steve Austin in one of the WWF€™s most notorious matches, the SummerSlam bout in which he botched a piledriver to nearly end Austin€™s career. He won the title back in a classic tournament after Austin was forced to vacate the title. That second reign lasted as short a time as it did purely because he dropped the title back to Austin at Survivor Series that year, in a short match which Austin had no business wrestling in, in front of a split Canadian crowd. It€™s hard to argue that Hart didn€™t shorten Austin€™s career - clearly he did. However, their feud was one of the many little milestones that set Austin on his way to being the megastar he€™d become. Owen Hart may have broken €˜Stone Cold€™, but he was one of the men who helped make him, too.