WWE: The 5 greatest Intercontinental Champions ever

Razor Ramon

The Bad Guy, Razor Ramon was one of WWE’s most popular Superstars in the mid-1990s.

Save for a brief feud with WWE Champion, Bret Hart, in the early part of 1993, Razor Ramon was a competitor who almost exclusively wrestled in and around the Intercontinental Championship picture during his tenure with the company.

He first won the gold in 1993. The title had been vacated with Shawn Michaels unable to defend it, and Ramon along with ‘The Model’ Rick Martel were the final two left standing in a battle royal to determine a new champ.

They met the following week, with Ramon clinching that all-important victory. Michaels returned and swiftly set about reclaiming what he still felt was rightly his, leading to the landmark ladder match between the two at WrestleMania X in 1994.

Their Madison Square Garden encounter stands the test of time as one of the best ever, with The Bad Guy once again victorious. The re-match, around 18 months later at Summerslam 1995, was an exceptional contest in an-otherwise average year for WWE, even with Ramon on the losing side that time around.

He would go on to battle Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, and Goldust among many others over the IC title, before his WWE departure in 1996 for arch-rivals WCW.