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Although the Intercontinental Championship was usually treated as a stepping stone for an up and coming wrestler before a World Title run, a number of former World Champions would still capture the IC Title after their reigns with the top belt.

19 different IC Champs were able to win the belt after already being a World Champion with a few of them achieving this feat more than once.

Although the Intercontinental Championship was usually treated as a stepping stone for an up and coming wrestler before a World Title run, a number of former World Champions would still capture the IC Title after their reigns with the top belt.

19 different IC Champs were able to win the belt after already being a World Champion with a few of them achieving this feat more than once.

For a belt that is sometimes considered the least prestigious among WWE's main roster male singles titles, there have been numerous occasions in in its history where the US Title was captured by a former World Champion.

In a number of these instances, the belt itself often found itself shot up to the main event and at times was even treated as the show's top title.

Honorbale mentions

• Booker T: Made his WWF debut as both the WCW World and US Champions. Would later win the WWE version of the US Title in 2004
• Kurt Angle: Won the WCW US Title in 2001 on WWF TV after having had reigns with the WWF Title earlier

1. The "Shamalan-verse" that connected the universes of Unbreakable and Split was not something initially promoted to audiences. The reveal that the two movies shared a universe happened only in the ending of Split and culminated in the film Glass

2. The ending of the 80s series Newhart revealed that the entire events of the series were actually dream experienced by the protagonist of another series, The Bob Newhart Show. Although both shows were created by and starred the aforementioned Bob Newhart, they were, up to that point completely separate from one another.

3. In the Star Wars universe, the race of aliens from the movie ET are an actual species called the Asogians. This inclusion is a response to a throwaway gag in the original ET film where the titular alien sees a child in a Yoda hallowween costume and appears to recognise it.

4. The Spy Kids series exists in the same universe as the Machete series with the protagonist latter being portrayed as an uncle to the heroes in the former. Despite Spy Kids being a franchise targetted to children and Machete being an ultra violent adult oriented series, both were created by Robert Rodriguez.

5. The Powerpuff Girls episode "Members Only" features the Justice Friends who appeared in Dexter's Laboratory. It should be noted however that despite this reveal, the Justice Friends were portrayed noticeably differently in PPG than how they normally appeared in Dexter's Lab.

6. In the series finale of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, it is revealed that the show takes place in the same universe as both Diff'rent Strokes and The Jeffersons. Arnold and Philip Drummond are revealed as potential buyers of the Banks family home before it is ultimately sold to George and Louise Jefferson.

7. In The Secret Saturdays, various Ben 10 villains were seen in cameos in a throway a scene during one of their episodes, hinting at a possible shared universe. This was later fully fleshed in the Ben 10 Omniverse episode T.G.I.S which not only features the characters interacting but the plot of which is a direct follow-up to the events of the series finale of TSS.

CM Punk misses out on this accolade by about 5 weeks since he won the WHC in late November 2025. Other honourable mentions of people who won 2 different World Titles in less than a year (but not the same calendar year) include

• Jeff Hardy (2008-2009)
• Batista (2008-2009)
• Randy Orton (2010-2011)
• Rey Mysterio (2010-2011)

CM Punk misses out on this accolade by about 5 weeks since he won the WHC in late November 2025. Other honourable mentions of people who won 2 different World Titles in less than a year (but not the same calendar year) include

• Jeff Hardy (2008-2009)
• Batista (2008-2009)
• Randy Orton (2010-2011)
• Rey Mysterio (2010-2011)

Needs US Title: Punk, Cody, Drew, Jey

Needs IC Title: Priest

Needs WWE/WHC: Shinsuke, Cardonna