Ideally, at no point in the midst of this story has Titus O'Neil ever held a championship. But, when he's verbally run down by The Rock, he mentions that Titus really has nothing he can say because he's never been a champion. Thus, this sets Titus off and one week on Raw he says that he'll wrestle any champion that comes out from the back to wrestle him, no holds barred, because he wants the championship that badly. Whomever the Intercontinental Champion is comes out, and during the match is assaulted by Brodus, and loses the Intercontinental Championship. For the duration of said reign, the idea is that Titus finds a way to defeat everyone via some sort of interference, save maybe Kofi Kingston who takes the title off of him and in the process convinces the now all repackaged, re-defined and re-focused Nation to leave him, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
