WWE: Top 10 Title Unifications In Modern Wrestling

1. Chris Jericho Defeats Steve Austin To Create The Undisputed WWF Title (Vengeance, December 2001)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIaRHdFU2AA By far the most important title unification in history not directly involving HHH (until the next one that's the most important in history), this was the final blowoff and, some would say, nail in the coffin of the WCW Invasion feud. The setup: Steve Austin was the WWF champion and was feuding with Kurt Angle. The Rock was the WCW World champion (although they were going out of their way to NOT call it that, instead just calling it the World champion, because WCW was supposedly dead(er) after Survivor Series 2001) and he was feuding with Chris Jericho. They wanted to pop a buyrate for the dead December PPV (SOUND FAMILIAR?!?) So they promoted a unification mini-tournament with Rock v. Jericho for the World title, and Austin v. Angle for the WWF title. "Aha," stupid rube fans think to themselves, "this clearly sets up a dream final of Austin v. Rock to unify the titles, TAKE MY MONEY VINCE MCMAHON!" But, and is this why WWF was so clever and thus sexy, they had no intention of delivering a Rock v. Austin match on some shi**y PPV that no one was going to buy, so they could make you THINK they were, and then swerve you by putting the title on the poor dweeb who got his ass handed to him by the Rock all the time. FOOLED YOU JERKS! Vince was probably prepping a giant money room to dive into the piles of coins like Scrooge McDuck, as Jericho cheated to beat the Rock and got a fluke win over Austin after a million people ran in (again my math might be off a bit). But that's OK, because he was UNDISPUTED WORLD CHAMPION, not someone's DOG-WALKER or anything. Match Quality: I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers. Long-term Significance: HHH managed to beat Jericho 18,000 times in a row by May 2002 to claim that sweet, sweet, Undisputed gold for himself, and then the belts were once again disputed by August when they split into Brock Lesnar's WWE championship and...say it with me...HHH's World championship. In conclusion, history has taught us that HHH will probably end up with both belts at TLC 2013.