Vengeance

Biography

The 2001 Vengeance was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the inaugural Vengeance and took place on December 9, 2001, at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California. The event temporarily replaced the promotion's annual December PPV, Armageddon, for the year 2001 in response to the September 11 attacks as the WWF felt the name "Armageddon" may be offensive to the victims. The following year, Vengeance was moved up to July as Armageddon was reinstated for that December. As such, it was the only Vengeance held before the introduction of the brand extension in March 2002 and the only Vengeance promoted under the WWF name as the promotion was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in May 2002. The event is notable for its triple main event, which was a three-match tournament to unify the WWF Championship and the World Championship (formerly the WCW Championship) as the Undisputed WWF Championship. In the first match, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin defeated Kurt Angle to retain the WWF Championship. In the second match, Chris Jericho defeated The Rock to win the World Championship. In the final match, Jericho defeated Austin to become the Undisputed WWF Champion. The Undisputed WWF Championship followed the lineage of the WWF Championship while the lineage of the World Championship was immediately retired after Jericho's win, with Jericho recognized as its final holder although he would carry both belts as the undisputed champion—a singular championship belt was introduced in April 2002 after Jericho lost the undisputed title to Triple H at WrestleMania X8.

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