WWE: Top 10 Title Unifications In Modern Wrestling

9. Rob Van Dam Defeats Tommy Dreamer To Unify The Intercontinental & Hardcore Titles (Monday Night RAW, August 2002)

8. Rob Van Dam Defeats Jeff Hardy To Unify The Intercontinental & European Titles (Monday Night RAW, July 2002)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ek0H60feF0 I'm cheating and kind of calling these one entry, given that they were part of the same plan. I can cheat because it's my list. The idea behind these was beefing up the Intercontinental title so that it could be the #2 belt once the brand extension told hold in 2002. The idea was supposed to be that the IC belt would conquer all the other secondary belts and become the uber-belt for RAW, which HHH would then win. However, HHH decided that he didn't really want to be the IC champion again, he wanted to be the World champion, and thus the World Heavyweight Championship was born instead. And then he beat RVD anyway, because HHH. Match Quality: Quite good in both cases. The Hardcore match with Dreamer was a throwback to the old days of the belt, and the Jeff Hardy match was also a solid affair between them. Long-term Significance: The Hardcore title was a mercy killing anyway, and the European title was literally thrown away by Shane McMahon at one point. However, these unifications provide the Intercontinental title with a neat bit of history that I'll get to in a bit.