 In the following weeks, after Van Dam and Hardy faced each other in Tag Team matches, on the edition of August 13, 2001 of Raw, Van Dam was scheduled to defend his title against Kurt Angle, and as the match was underway, Jeff Hardy interfered and pinned Van Dam to win the title for himself.This led to a Ladder match for the title at SummerSlam between Hardy and Van Dam.Before the event began, a dark match took place on Heat.