and give them the Intercontinental championship to work angles around. No storyline, character or gimmick in WWEs history has needed more rehabilitation and reinvention than their secondary championship. The US title has taken leaps and bounds in credibility since John Cena made it his personal project. We can save the cursed, humiliating legacy of the Intercontinental title and turn it around. Make it Smackdown exclusive and make it mandatory that the Intercontinental champion defends the title every single episode of Smackdown. At present, its given to lame duck characters who need the rub of some gold around their waists, and who will invariably lose every non-title match theyre placed in. Say hi, Wade Barrett. Thats fixable by making it impossible for the Intercontinental champion to have non-title matches. Every match theyre in, bell to bell, is for the title. Doesnt matter who it is, when or where: if theres a non-tag match involving the IC champ, its automatically for the title. It turns the secondary champion into a workhorse, makes their wins and losses matter again and, like Cenas US Open Challenge, gives a little rub to every lower card wrestler that the champion has a reasonably competitive match against. You dont want your undercard filled with jobbers and losers. Who wants to see them perform? Make the Intercontinental championship Smackdown exclusive then make it great again. Itll make the men and women, who knows who fight over it mean more by association.
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