6 Best WWE Hardcore Champions

#2 Rob Van Dam

Rob Van Dam - Revitalised the Hardcore Title during summer 2001

The former ECW World Television Champion, Rob Van Dam knew all about hardcore wrestling when he burst onto the scene in the WWF as part of the WCW/ECW invasion.

It made sense that RVD would target the Hardcore Championship and he won the title in a stunning match versus Jeff Hardy at the Invasion pay per view event.

RVD dropped the belt three weeks later before regaining it from Hardy in a Ladder Match at Summerslam 2001, several days later in an equally impressive bout.

RVD lost and regained the title within seconds when he was pinned by Kurt Angle before Stone Cold Steve Austin threw Angle off the stage and then threw RVD on top of the new champion, resulting in RVD pinning Angle to win his third Hardcore strap.

RVD reigned as Champion for 90 days before succumbing to The Undertaker in one of the "American Bad Ass's" finest matches of 2001.

Following this title loss, RVD turned his attention to the Intercontinental Championship which he won three times before he unified the Hardcore Title with the IC strap on August 26, 2002 to become the final Hardcore Champion in the title's history.

A different kind of Hardcore Champion to the other combatants on this list. RVD contested more stunning Hardcore Title matches than any other title holder in the strap's history.