Ruthless Aggression! I
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2002 | Kane | WWE Intercontinental Champion / World Tag Team Champion
2003 | Eddie Guerrero | WWE U.S Champion / WWE Tag Team Champion
2004 | Chris Benoit | World Heavyweight Champion / World Tag Team Champion
The Ruthless Aggression era brought us many great double champions. It really can add legitimacy to the superstar that is carrying two belts around. When you look at the talent that are in this list, you certainly couldn’t say it hurt their career!
Kane beat Chris Jericho on an episode of Raw to capture the Intercontinental Championship. It would soon be unified with the World Heavyweight Championship but before it could be, Kane would also capture the World Tag Team Championships with the Hurricane.
Hurri-Kane were beaten by Chris Jericho and Christian less than a month later though; a week before Kane’s unification match with Triple H.
The late, great Eddie Guerrero was also a double champion back in the day. He won a tournament final against Chris Benoit to become United States Champion in July 2003. Then, along with Chavo Guerrero, won the WWE Tag Team Championships in September.
He would lose his singles title to Big Show at No Mercy before dropping the Tag Team gold the next week on SmackDown to The Basham Brothers.
Chris Benoit was next to have a bite at the double champion pie. He won the Royal Rumble in 2004 granting him the opportunity to fight for the World Championship at WrestleMania XX. He managed to fend off both Triple H and Shawn Michaels to finally reach the top of the mountain.
This wasn’t enough however, as he then won the World Tag Team Championships with Edge on an episode of Raw. It helped to establish how dangerous Benoit was in the ring. They lost the titles to La Résistance, and he lost the World Championship famously to Randy Orton at SummerSlam 2004.
