The Complete History of the WWE Championship - Part 10

Stone Cold Steve Austin (October 8, 2001 - December 9, 2001)

Stone Cold became a record-equalling six-time WWE Champion on Raw

Stone Cold Steve Austin won a joint-record sixth, and his final, WWE Championship two weeks after he lost his fifth title to Kurt Angle.

In a super heated rematch on the October 8, 2001 episode of Raw, Austin, with assistance from turncoat, William Regal won the title and returned it to the possession of the Alliance squad.

With Austin as champion, the Alliance held the WWE Championship whereas, the WWE team conversely held the WCW World belt.

Stone Cold defended the belt successfully at No Mercy on October 21, 2001 against Angle and Rob Van Dam in a Triple Threat encounter and was still recognised as champion when Team WWE defeated Team WCW/ECW at Survivor Series 2001 in a Winner Take All encounter.

Austin turned face once more, the night after Survivor Series and marched into Vengeance on December 9, 2001 looking to defend his title versus Angle, which he did and become the first Undisputed Champion.

However that wasn't possible when Booker T interfered and cost Stone Cold the chance to unify the WWE Championship with the World Championship (the WCW World title was renamed the World title following Survivor Series).

Stone Cold had lost his final WWE Championship to Chris Jericho. He would never regain it. He walked out of WWE five months later after becoming dissatisfied with the way he was being booked and returned in February 2003, for a month comeback before retiring from the grap game for good at WrestleMania XIX on March 30, 2003.