Raven vs. CM Punk - Dog Collar match - ROH Death Before Dishonor (2003)
One of CM Punk's greatest rivalries in Ring of Honor. Features an early use of Punk's straight edge lifestyle versus a man who is struggling with his personal demons - a gimmick that was later used in Punk's rivalry with Jeff Hardy which some say really put Punk over in WWE. Parts of this rivalry were also used again in the Punk/Jericho Best in the World '12 feud.
Raven and CM Punk fought in many hardcore matches together around this time... some for ROH and some for TNA when Punk was in Raven's "Gathering"; TNA's version of The Flock.
Speaking of hardcore Intercontinental Championship matches:
Rob Van Dam (c) vs. Tommy Dreamer (c) - Intercontinental title match/last Hardcore title match - Raw (2002)
In 2002, RVD made (little known) history when he unified the European title with the Intercontinental title after defeating Jeff Hardy (Euro champ) and then faced Hardcore champion Tommy Dreamer in a hardcore unification match a little under a month later. Rob Van Dam with his IC title was pretty much the go-to guy for defuncting a midcard title back then. Maybe if Rob returned to WWE today he could win the IC title and unify it with the US title since, like the Hardcore and European title in 2002, the US title serves zero purposes anymore.
Triple H vs. Tazz - Champion vs. Champion - WWF Smackdown! (2000)
Only a couple of days after defeating WCW's Mike Awesome for the ECW heavyweight championship in about 3 minutes in Indianapolis, Tazz appears on Smackdown! to take on WWF's champion at the time, Triple H.
Though no titles were on the line and Tommy Dreamer appears only to be left looking like a fool with his silly suspender pants on the ground, Tazz puts up a good fight againt Triple H.
Anyways, here's the ECW champion, Tazz taking on the champion of the McMahon/Helmsley era, Triple H.
Tommy Dreamer w/Luna Vachon vs. Vampire Warrior - ECW (1995)
Sometime after Luna Vachon's departure from WWF in 1994, crazy Luna surfaced on ECW as Tommy Dreamers' valet during his long-running with Raven (who also worked in WWF around the same time Luna was there). Things started to get really semi-crazy though when the real life husband of Luna Vachon, David "(pre) Gangrel" Heath showed up and demanded to take Luna back from Dreamer. Heath, not yet know as that guy with the Seinfeld shirt that spat blood everywhere, appearing in ECW as Vampire Warrior would take the fight to "The Innovator of Violence" all over the ECW arena - providing Dreamer to grab weapons that fans brought to the show to use and so neither of them actually had to rassle.
Though Tommy Dreamer gets the win with the DDT off of a chair and Vampire Warrior seemingly doesn't get his wife back, this was not the last time Heath would be seen in ECW. As far as wrestling matches go for Heath in ECW, I have only seen one other match featuring Vampire Warrior... It was a match he tagged with Dudley Dudley (the only pure-Dudley in the family) against the team of The Steiner Brothers. I also want to say that this was not Vampire Warriors' debut match in ECW; his first match actually being against Hack Myers.
I also meant to throw in a "Dark Phantom" joke in there somewhere but lost steam.
Oh well... Here's Luna's husband at the time taking on Tommy Dreamer in classic ECW fashion.
