Ranking The Last 10 WWE Intercontinental Champions From Worst To Best

7. Finn Bálor

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Happy, smiling and cheery Finn Bálor strolled out, won the IC Title twice in early-2019 and thrust his pointy crotch into everyone's faces from the ring apron. If you managed to look at the shiny wrestling belt and not his 'Sling Blade', then you're surely less perverted than this writer or anyone he knows.

OK, enough of that.

As Intercontinental Champion, Bálor struggled the same way his successor Shinsuke Nakamura would. WWE just couldn't have cared less about booking him as a regular fighting champ who could point (ahem) to his prize as a defining moment in a career that had taken him all around the world.

His first run lasted 22 days and nothing really happened, so it's best ignored. The second, which went 98 days, kicked off at WrestleMania 35, meandered through mini-issues with Sami Zayn, Elias and Andrade, and then ended suddenly when Nakamura beat Finn on the Extreme Rules Kickoff show last July. Thrilling.

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