News On Plans For Intercontinental Title Feud

Ryback faced Big Show at Money in the Bank in a match that ended with Big Show winning by disqualification because The Miz entered the ring to attack Big Show and then Ryback. The reason this was done is because the plan is to do a triple threat feud for the Intercontinental Title, reports Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. The original plan was for Ryback vs. Big Show vs. The Miz to actually happen at Money in the Bank, but they changed it to just Ryback vs. Show and now they can move on to the triple threat feud at Battleground on July 19 as well as possibly SummerSlam in August. The reason for The Miz interfering in the match is because Big Show walked out to the ring on Raw two weeks ago when Miz was going to have a match with Ryback and Show knocked out Miz with one punch to prevent him from getting his match. There was also a point in the Money in the Bank match where Ryback attacked Miz when he was unprovoked and tossed him over the announce table.

What WWE likely won't mention is that Ryback beat The Miz clean in a non-title match on Smackdown that should have taken Miz out of any title contention, but this is WWE and they really don't often mention things that happened on Smackdown. It's smart for WWE to build up to the triple threat more because if they did it after two weeks it wouldn't have enough build. Now they can spend the next month building up to the match and it will make it feel more important.