>>19990941
You're right and that's why nobody, and I mean absolutely fucking nobody under the sun gives a fuck about the Intercontinental title, no matter how many half-baked "revivals" it keeps getting.

>>19990941
They can’t book anything anymore. Every storyline if you can even call them that is I want the belt cause it’s a belt I don’t have. That’s why they have 72 titles and none are memorable

>>19990941
I'm not trying to blame women here, but I think part of the problem is they added Women's Intercontinental and United States Championships. They're focused on getting those belts established, and now the men's midcard belts are getting treated like an after thought. The US Championship has just been the Open Challenge Championship for like a year, and the Intercontinental Championship is rarely even defended at this point.

>month four of no defenses by Dom for the IC belt
Absolute joke, might as well should have let Naomi keep her title through her whole pregnancy and maternal leave

>>19990941
The United States title should be a consolation price for bangerino dimeless shitters and the Intercontinental title should be given to people that have a 90% chance of being future world champions.

>>19990941
it's because the roster is so top heavy (and I don't mean this as a good thing. every guy in the main event scene fucking sucks and I never watch any of their shit.) So because you have a bunch of unwatchable 50 year old boomers like seff and cawdy wasting 30 mins every night gaych never builds up anyone new and because he never builds up anyone new there aren't any good midcard feuds to do.
it was the whole problem they had with Chelsea and not having an opponent.
It doesn't help that both RAW and smackdown have what 5 and a half titles each? When the IC belt mattered there was just the main belt, the IC belt, the tag belts and then maybe some low card belt like the yuro, HC or cruiserweight bouncing around. Right now both shows have a men's belt, a men's midcard, a women's belt, a woman's midcard, a tag belt and they share the women's tag belt and they only do 4 matches per PPV

>>19990941
there's no story around the IC because they decided not to strip dom of it when he got injured, for some idiotic reason. raw had a pretty weak singles midcard around that time, that's the only reason i can think of. he never should have won it back from cena.
but there is no reason that penta, jevon, theory, logan, dragon lee, etc aren't competing for this thing.
on smackdown, the US open challenge was a breath of fresh air. over the last few years, the title went from the fweakin vortex, to logan's absentee reign, to the lucha vortex, to LA knight feuding with jobbers, to being stuck in samoa. sami restarting the USOC was essential to getting ilja and melo over.
but i think it is close to overstaying its welcome. even melo said the other day that he wants a true storyline in his reign. i think he's getting that with the build to the ilja rematch but that is more subtle than probably what many would like.

>>19992168
>but there is no reason that penta, jevon, theory, logan, dragon lee, etc aren't competing for this thing.
because outside of Logan all of those homos are unwatchable

>>19990941
Russo was the only guy who could book a multi-title midcard scene.

>>19992168
>sami
>getting anyone or anything over
lmao