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Durante a existência do título, quatro mulheres foram campeãs: [[Nora Greenwald|Molly Holly]], [[Trish Stratus]], [[Terri Runnels]] e [[Cynthia Lynch|Bobcat]]. O título também mudaria de mãos em [[house show|eventos não televisionados]].
A regra acabou em 19 de agosto de 2002, quando o [[Gerente geral|Gerente Geral]] do [[WWE Raw|Raw]] [[Eric Bischoff]] a suspendeu após [[Tommy Dreamer]] ganhar o título em uma [[Battle royal|Battle Royal]].
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<!--Of all the hardcore champions, [[Steve Blackman]] is known to be the most aware of the 24/7 rule, defending the belt the longest. With Blackman as champion, however, surprise attacks no longer resulted in title changes: within the matches, Blackman was so dangerous in hand-to-hand combat that surprise attacks were not effective enough to defeat him. During his stint as Hardcore Champion, Blackman's full martial arts talent was utilized. The first time he lost the title for a significant amount of time was against Shane McMahon, largely due to interference from Test, Albert, Edge, and Christian, with Mick Foley suspending the 24/7 rule to make sure McMahon didn't try to get out of facing Blackman in a rematch. At SummerSlam, Blackman fought McMahon for the title. During that match, they both climbed the TitanTron with Blackman able to knock Shane off with a Singapore cane, then performed a diving elbow drop for the pin fall . Blackman would go on to defend the title on several occasions, but he would ultimately lose the title on a more permanent basis to Raven in late 2000.
Between the Invasion storyline and pre-[[Wrestlemania 18]], the "24/7" rule has been nearly absent from the scene. The only time where it has been applied was during a match on RAW (September 10, 2001); Kurt Angle Vs. Rob Van Dam. Kurt Angle won the match with an Ankle Lock, only to have Austin throw Angle off the ramp, as well as throw RVD off the ramp too, causing RVD to pin Angle nearly unconscious and regain the Hardcore Championship Belt. During this time, it was either assumed that the it would be nearly impossible to implement the 24/7 rule during this time or assumed that neither team (WWF or Alliance) want to risk losing their belts to prove brand dominance. After the Invasion storyline was finished, the [[Undertaker]] wins the Hardcore Championship against RVD. Due to his new persona gimmick (which made him [[heel]]), the Undertaker went against numerous opponents (usually smaller than him) and severely cripples them after the match, with the exception of the [[Paul Wight|Big Show]] who Undertaker beat but left after the match. As a result excessive brutality, it would be assumed that (kayfabe) none of the WWE superstars in the hardcore division want to utilize the 24/7 rule against the Undertaker due to life-threatening fear. After Maven wins the belt against the Undertaker after [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] interfered in the match against Maven on Smackdown (February 5, 2002), the 24/7 rule resumes.
The 24/7 rule was enforced until August 19, 2002 when [[WWE Raw|Raw]] [[Professional wrestling authority figures#Raw brand authorities|General Manager]] [[Eric Bischoff]] decided to suspend it following a six minute [[Battle royal (professional wrestling)|Hardcore Battle Royal]] won by [[Tommy Dreamer]]. Prior to this a 24 hour suspension on the rule was in place for [[Rob Van Dam]] and [[Jeff Hardy]]'s match at ''[[WWF Invasion]]''. Commissioner Mick Foley also suspended the rule while [[Shane McMahon]] held the belt to ensure he was still the champion at ''[[SummerSlam 2000]]'' to defend against Steve Blackman, whom he cheated out of the belt.
In 2006, Mick Foley proclaimed [[Adam Copeland|Edge]] the Hardcore Champion, before Edge proclaimed them both co-Hardcore Champion. However, this angle was never entertained further.
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The title was retired on August 26, 2002 when [[WWE Intercontinental Championship|WWE Intercontinental Champion]] Rob Van Dam defeated Hardcore Champion Tommy Dreamer to unify the titles.<ref name="Dreamer'sbio">{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Bios/dreamer_tommy.html|title=Bio: Tommy Dreamer|last= M. Milner|first=John|coauthors=Bob Kapur and Richard Kamchen|date=April 7, 2006|work=SLAM! Sports: Wrestling|publisher=[[Canadian Online Explorer]]|accessdate=July 31, 2009|quote=Dreamer lost a Hardcore vs. Intercontinental title unification match vs. Rob Van Dam.}}</ref> This was one month after Van Dam defeated Jeff Hardy in a ladder match to unify the WWE Intercontinental title and the [[WWE European Championship|European Championship]].
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