Since its inception in September 1979, the Intercontinental Championship has been held by WWE's greatest Superstars, including WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson, The Rock, Ultimate Warrior, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Bret "Hit Man" Hart, Shawn Michaels and Triple H.
Current WWE Intercontinental champion Champion : Chad Gable
Date won : August 2, 2026
Defeated : Penta
Event : SummerSlam
WWE Intercontinental title history Wrestler Date won Event Length Reign No. Chad Gable 8/2/26 SummerSlam TBD 1 Penta 3/2/26 Raw 153 days 1 Dominik Mysterio 11/29/25 Survivor Series 93 days 2 John Cena 11/10/25 Raw 19 days 1 Dominik Mysterio 4/10/25 WrestleMania 41 204 days 1 Bron Breakker 10/21/24 Raw 180 days 2 Jey Uso 9/23/24 Raw 27 days 1 Bron Breakker 8/3/24 SummerSlam 51 days 1 Sami Zayn 4/7/24 WrestleMania 40 119 days 4 Gunther 6/10/22 SmackDown 666 days 1 Ricochet 3/4/22 SmackDown 99 days 1 Sami Zayn 2/11/22 SmackDown 21 days 3 Shinsuke Nakamura 8/13/21 SmackDown 189 days 2 Apollo Crews 4/11/21 WrestleMania 37 124 days 1 Big E 12/22/20 SmackDown 110 days 2 Sami Zayn 9/27/20 Extreme Rules 89 days 2 Jeff Hardy 8/22/20 SmackDown 37 days 5 AJ Styles 6/12/20 SmackDown 74 days 1 Sami Zayn 3/8/20 Extreme Rules 65 days 1 Braun Strowman 1/31/20 SmackDown 37 days 1 Shinsuke Nakamura 7/14/19 Extreme Rules 201 days 1 Finn Balor 4/7/19 WrestleMania 35 98 days 2 Bobby Lashley 3/11/19 Monday Night Raw 27 days 2 Finn Balor 12/16/18 Extreme Rules 22 days 1 Bobby Lashley 1/14/19 Monday Night Raw 34 days 1 Dean Ambrose 12/16/18 TLC 29 days 3 Seth Rollins 8/19/18 SummerSlam 119 days 2 Dolph Ziggler 6/18/18 Monday Night Raw 62 days 6 Seth Rollins 4/8/18 WrestleMania 34 71 days 1 The Miz 1/22/18 Raw 25th Anniversary 76 days 8 Roman Reigns 11/20/17 Monday Night Raw 63 days 1 The Miz 6/4/17 Extreme Rules 169 days 7 Dean Ambrose 1/3/17 SmackDown Live 152 days 2 The Miz 11/15/16 SmackDown Live 49 days 6 Dolph Ziggler 10/9/16 No Mercy 37 days 5 The Miz 4/4/16 Monday Night Raw 188 days 5 Zack Ryder 4/3/16 WrestleMania 1 day 1 Kevin Owens 2/15/16 Monday Night Raw 48 days 2 Dean Ambrose 12/13/15 TLC 64 days 1 Kevin Owens 9/20/15 Night of Champions 84 days 1 Ryback 5/31/15 Elimination Chamber 112 days 1 Daniel Bryan 3/29/15 WrestleMania 43 days 1 Bad News Barrett 1/5/15 Monday Night Raw 83 days 5 Dolph Ziggler 12/14/14 TLC 22 days 4 Luke Harper 11/17/14 Monday Night Raw 27 days 1 Dolph Ziggler 9/22/14 Monday Night Raw 56 days 3 The Miz 9/21/14 Night of Champions 1 days 4 Dolph Ziggler 8/17/14 SummerSlam 35 days 2 The Miz 7/20/14 Battleground 28 days 3 Bad News Barrett 5/4/14 Extreme Rules 57 days 4 Big E 11/18/13 Monday Night Raw 167 days 1 Curtis Axel 6/16/13 Payback 155 days 1 Wade Barrett 4/8/13 Monday Night Raw 69 days 3 The Miz 4/7/13 WrestleMania 1 days 2 Wade Barrett 12/29/12 Monday Night Raw 99 days 2 Kofi Kingston 10/16/12 Main Event 74 days 4 The Miz 7/23/12 Monday Night Raw 85 days 1 Christian 5/20/12 Over the Limit 64 days 4 Cody Rhodes 4/29/12 Extreme Rules 21 days 2 Big Show 4/1/12 WrestleMania 28 days 1 Cody Rhodes 8/12/11 SmackDown 233 days 1 Ezekiel Jackson 6/19/11 Capitol Punishment 54 days 1 Wade Barrett 3/25/11 SmackDown 86 days 1 Kofi Kingston 1/7/11 SmackDown 77 days 3 Dolph Ziggler 8/6/10 SmackDown 154 days 1 Kofi Kingston 5/23/10 Over the Limit 75 days 2 Drew McIntyre 12/13/09 TLC 161 days 1 John Morrison 9/4/09 SmackDown 100 days 3 Rey Mysterio 6/28/09 The Bash 68 days 2 Chris Jericho 6/7/09 Extreme Rules 21 days 9 Rey Mysterio 4/5/09 WrestleMania 63 days 1 JBL 3/9/09 Monday Night Raw 27 days 1 CM Punk 1/19/09 Monday Night Raw 49 days 1 William Regal 11/10/08 Monday Night Raw 70 days 2 Santino Marella 8/17/08 SummerSlam 85 days 2 Kofi Kingston 6/29/08 Night of Champions 49 days 1 Chris Jericho 3/10/08 Monday Night Raw 111 days 8 Jeff Hardy 9/3/07 Monday Night Raw 189 days 4 Umaga 7/2/07 Monday Night Raw 63 days 2 Santino Marella 4/16/07 Monday Night Raw 77 days 1 Umaga 2/19/07 Monday Night Raw 56 days 1 Jeff Hardy 11/13/06 Monday Night Raw 98 days 3 Johnny Nitro 11/6/06 Monday Night Raw 7 days 2 Jeff Hardy 10/2/06 Monday Night Raw 35 days 2 Johnny Nitro 6/25/06 Vengeance 99 days 1 Shelton Benjamin 5/15/06 Monday Night Raw 41 days 3 Rob Van Dam 4/30/06 Backlash 15 days 6 Shelton Benjamin 2/20/06 Monday Night Raw 69 days 2 Ric Flair 9/19/05 Unforgiven 154 days 1 Carlito 6/20/05 Monday Night Raw 91 days 1 Shelton Benjamin 10/19/04 Taboo Tuesday 244 days 1 Chris Jericho 9/12/04 Unforgiven 37 days 7 Edge 7/11/04 Vengeance 57 days 5 Randy Orton 12/14/03 Armageddon 210 days 1 Rob Van Dam 10/27/03 Monday Night Raw 48 days 5 Chris Jericho 10/27/03 Monday Night Raw 0 days 6 Rob Van Dam 9/29/03 Monday Night Raw 28 days 4 Christian 8/10/03 House show 50 days 3 Booker T 7/7/03 Monday Night Raw 34 days 1 Christian 5/18/03 Judgment Day 50 days 2 Triple H 10/20/02 No Mercy 0 days 5 Kane 9/30/02 Monday Night Raw 20 days 2 Chris Jericho 9/16/02 Monday Night Raw 14 days 5 Rob Van Dam 8/6/02 SummerSlam 41 days 3 Chris Benoit 7/29/02 Monday Night Raw 28 days 4 Rob Van Dam 5/27/02 Monday Night Raw 63 days 2 Eddie Guerrero 4/21/02 Backlash 36 days 2 Rob Van Dam 3/17/02 WrestleMania 35 days 1 William Regal 1/20/02 Royal Rumble 56 days 1 Edge 11/18/01 Survivor Series 63 days 4 Test 11/5/01 Monday Night Raw 13 days 1 Edge 10/21/01 No Mercy 15 days 3 Christian 9/23/01 Unforgiven 28 days 1 Edge 8/19/01 SummerSlam 35 days 2 Lance Storm 7/23/01 Monday Night Raw 27 days 1 Albert 6/28/01 SmackDown 25 days 1 Kane 5/20/01 Judgment Day 39 days 1 Triple H 4/16/01 Monday Night Raw 34 days 4 Jeff Hardy 4/12/01 SmackDown 4 days 1 Triple H 4/5/01 SmackDown 7 days 3 Chris Jericho 1/21/01 Royal Rumble 74 days 4 Chris Benoit 12/10/00 Armageddon 42 days 3 Billy Gunn 11/23/00 SmackDown 17 days 1 Eddie Guerrero 9/4/00 Monday Night Raw 80 days 1 Chyna 8/27/00 SummerSlam 8 days 2 Val Venis 7/6/00 SmackDown 52 days 2 Rikishi 6/22/00 SmackDown 14 days 1 Chris Benoit 5/8/00 Monday Night Raw 43 days 2 Chris Jericho 5/4/00 SmackDown 4 days 3 Chris Benoit 4/2/00 WrestleMania 50 days 1 Kurt Angle 2/27/00 No Way Out 35 days 1 Chris Jericho 1/23/00 Royal Rumble 35 days 2 Chris Jericho 12/12/99 Armageddon 22 days 1 Chyna 10/17/99 No Mercy 56 days 1 Jeff Jarrett 8/22/99 SummerSlam 56 days 6 D'Lo Brown 7/26/99 Monday Night Raw 27 days 1 Jeff Jarrett 7/25/99 Fully Loaded 1 days 5 Edge 7/24/99 House show 1 days 1 Jeff Jarrett 5/31/99 Monday Night Raw 54 days 4 Godfather 4/12/99 Monday Night Raw 43 days 1 Goldust 3/29/99 Monday Night Raw 14 days 3 Road Dogg 3/15/99 Monday Night Raw 14 days 1 Val Venis 2/14/99 In Your House 29 days 1 Ken Shamrock 10/12/98 Monday Night Raw 125 days 1 Triple H 8/30/98 SummerSlam 43 days 2 The Rock 12/8/97 Monday Night Raw 265 days 2 Steve Austin 11/9/97 Survivor Series 29 days 2 Owen Hart 10/5/97 In Your House 35 days 2 Steve Austin 8/3/97 SummerSlam 63 days 1 Owen Hart 4/28/97 Monday Night Raw 97 days 1 Rocky Maivia 2/13/97 Monday Night Raw 74 days 1 Triple H 10/21/96 Monday Night Raw 115 days 1 Marc Mero 9/23/96 Monday Night Raw 28 days 1 Ahmed Johnson 6/23/96 King of the Ring 57 days 1 Goldust 4/1/96 Monday Night Raw 83 days 2 Goldust 1/21/96 Royal Rumble 64 days 1 Razor Ramon 10/22/95 In Your House 91 days 4 Dean Douglas 10/22/95 In Your House 0 days 1 Shawn Michaels 7/23/95 In Your House 91 days 3 Jeff Jarrett 5/22/95 House show 62 days 3 Razor Ramon 5/19/95 House show 3 days 3 Jeff Jarrett 4/26/95 Action Zone 23 days 2 Jeff Jarrett 1/22/95 Royal Rumble 94 days 1 Razor Ramon 8/29/94 SummerSlam 146 days 2 Diesel 4/13/94 Superstars 138 days 1 Razor Ramon 9/27/93 Monday Night Raw 198 days 1 Shawn Michaels 6/6/93 House show 113 days 2 Marty Jannetty 5/17/93 Monday Night Raw 20 days 1 Shawn Michaels 10/27/92 Saturday Night's Main Event 202 days 1 British Bulldog 8/29/92 SummerSlam 59 days 1 Bret Hart 4/5/92 WrestleMania 146 days 2 Roddy Piper 1/19/92 Royal Rumble 77 days 1 The Mountie 1/17/92 House show 2 days 1 Bret Hart 8/26/91 SummerSlam 144 days 1 Mr. Perfect 11/19/90 Superstars 280 days 2 Texas Tornado 8/27/90 SummerSlam 84 days 1 Mr. Perfect 4/23/90 Superstars 126 days 1 Ultimate Warrior 8/28/89 SummerSlam 216 days 2 Rick Rude 4/2/89 WrestleMania 148 days 1 Ultimate Warrior 8/29/88 SummerSlam 216 days 1 Honky Tonk Man 6/2/87 Superstars 454 days 1 Ricky Steamboat 3/29/87 WrestleMania 65 days 1 Randy Savage 2/8/86 House show 414 days 1 Tito Santana 7/6/85 House show 217 days 2 Greg Valentine 9/24/84 Maple Leaf Wrestling 285 days 1 Tito Santana 2/11/84 House show 226 days 1 Don Muraco 1/22/83 House show 385 days 2 Pedro Morales 11/23/81 House show 425 days 2 Don Muraco 6/20/81 House show 156 days 1 Pedro Morales 12/8/80 House show 194 days 1 Ken Patera 4/21/80 House show 231 days 1 Pat Patterson 9/1/79 House show 233 days 1
