WWE: 6 Ways To Replace The Undertaker's Streak

1. Intercontinental Title Tournament

Intercontinental Title The last few WrestleManias have been focused on the two world title matches, The Streak and a couple other major angles (some involving part-timers, some involving celebrities). The rest has been filler thrown together the last few weeks before WM. With the world titles unified and The Streak winding down, there needs to be a new focus. Assuming the Undertaker has 1-2 more matches in him, why not start a tradition at WrestleMania 33 of a tournament for the Intercontinental Championship? It would be the 30th anniversary of the greatest IC title match (Savage-Steamboat), which would be a great hook for this. You set it up like this: Single-elimination tournament of eight or 16 superstars compete in matches on Raw and Smackdown in the weeks leading up to 'Mania, with the finals taking place on the pre-show. The winner challenges the IC champ during WrestleMania. This accomplishes so much: 1) It gives a bunch of guys on the undercard something to do leading up to 'Mania; 2) It fills time on the shows with matches that actually mean something, and you could still work in angles with someone costing someone else a match, setting up a feud; 3) It refocuses the Intercontinental title as a wrestling title; and 4) It sets it up that the IC champ will defend his title at the biggest show of the year. It's such a frustrating thing to think that the promotion's secondary title-holder is competing in a battle royal instead of defending his "prestigious" title. Let's change that.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.