Every WWE Intercontinental Champion Ranked From WORST To BEST 

Fun Fact: The Mountie held the Intercontinental Championship while the WWF Championship was vacant, so he was technically the top guy in WWF for two days.

Next should be "Every Big Show Turn Ranked From Worst to Best"

New drinking game: take a sip after every time Adam says “Two Weeks” or “Next Big Thing” when describing a former IC champion

Growing up watching wrestling in the late 90s and early 2000s I remember the intercontintel title being held mostly by Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit.

Rip luke harper you'll be missed

New intro an hour and twenty minutes long vid grab a drink a snack and kick back and i am a happy man

Soo... Strowman's position on the list hasn't aged well already lol

I think Miz' greatest strength as a promo is his ability to give meaning to things. Miz cuts promos in ways that make the IC and US Titles feel as important as the World Title just by him talking about them like they do. You could show his promos about how great he is for being the IC Champion to someone that doesn't know wrestling and they'd probably assume he was the top star with how much he values it

Great vid. For me Mr Perfect will always be the best IC champ. He was one of the best heels in the business and a great performer. Curt Henning Rest in Perfection!!!

Do an "Every WWE United States Champion, ranked from worst to best" then do one for the WCW United States championship in a later video

I was waiting for the “Randal Keith” song

Love the new logo! Until a new Cultaholic belt is made, you guys should do like Impact and slap a new logo sticker over the front plate lol

For me The Mizz is the best IC Champ in history. He never treated it like the 2nd or 3rd belt, or a stepping stone. For him the IC Championship was the most important belt in the world whenever he had it, and that made the belt feel more special.

1:23 84-81 4:24 80-71 12:36 70-61 20:48 60-51 28:41 50-41 38:14 40-31 46:45 30-21 54:40 20-11 1:07:44 10-1

Without even watching, Miz has to be in the top 5. What that man did in the ring, on the mic, and especially for the Intercontinental Title in 2016-2017 was truly remarkable. He made that championship mean more than WWE or Universal Titles themselves. If the "man makes the title", then he certainly did just that!

Randy Orton is criminally low, but he’s the only one with a song so I’m torn with my rage

Bloody. Hell. That’s one hell of a video. Bravo to all involved lads, you do too much for us lot. Brilliant rebrand as well, nice and fresh!

Thank you so much for this list. It's nice to see the IC title get some love. Favourite champions growing up were Shaun, Jericho, Chyna, Edge and Cody Rhodes. I also appreciate Roddy, Randy and the other greats that held the title before my time. Miz did a great job elevating the title to "must see" television (see what I did there? 😉) - the title has had some remarkable moments held by some of the greatest who never went on to win the world title making the IC Title that more special.

Der Ring General Demands! You update this list.

@1:07:42 Tito held the World tag titles with Rick Martel as Strike Force from October 1987- March 1988.

Me: how you gonna do Harper dirty like that? *lays out whole run* "Yeah, I don't remember any of that."

My favourites Rey Mysterio 2009 The miz 2016 (just 2016 because that’s when it was good) Cody Rhodes 2011-2012 Jeff Hardy 2006-2008 Chris Jericho all of them

Benoît was one of the most dominant IC champions and was a brilliant heel too especially in 2000.

Time for an list update

“The other fella from The Rockers” made me laugh my ass off for some reason 😂😂

I think Ziggler deserves a higher spot on this list. Him and The Miz spent the better part of the last decade fighting to make the title relevant, but somehow Miz gets pretty much all the credit.

Still going through, but I think the 2014-2017 thing with the title was good. Dean, Dolph, Barrett, Stardust, Luke Harper, the Miz, idk why but those seemed like amazing matches and such.

I think we can safely assume that Gunther is now number 1.

When I think "IC Title" Mr. Perfect is the first person that comes to mind.

"Social media whizz kid Seth Rollins" Bro why 🤣

I love this retrospective, however I do have to bring up one thing. During the Tito Santana section, it is said that after he dropped the belt to Savage; "he never held championship gold in the company again." That is not true. He and Rick Martel held the Tag Team Championship in 1987 as Strike Force

“Tragically died on his way to the ring”. Yeah. That’s one way to put it.

36:57 for Randall Keith

37:00 the hype for Orton introductions always is awesome

48:28 Wow.... Rick Rude's IC tights was really a very cool work of art... I wish I had one of those... Just wow!!!!!

There will never be another Macho Man. RIP Randy Savage. The true goat.

Can we PLEASE start chanting the Randal Kieth song to Randy at WWE events? PLEASE!

This new aesthetic of the channel is really really nice, looking forward to what's coming soon

I'd say it's time for an update, but we all know only the #1 shot changes. Gunther is the greatest to ever hold the belt, hands down

"The best man will walk out of here with two belts..... and two slammy's" -Owen Hart

"A DQ win against Fake Diesel" literally sounds like someone made that up as a joke. Honestly, I laughed out loud when I heard the phrase. Marc Mero should definitely win an award for lamest IC title defense ever.

I don’t know how the Randall Keith song started, but every time I hear it I’m filled with incredible joy

Cultaholic has an one hour and 20 min video. Me: Perfect 😁 Any other channel has an one hour and 20 min video. Me: hell no 🤣

The top 5 should look like this to me 1. Honky Tonk Man (longest reigning) 2. Mr. Perfect ( Kept it Prestigious) 3. Bret Hart (Hardest Working for it in his days) 4. Razor Ramon ( The look of a champion) 5. The Miz ( Really cares about the Championship history and took his latest reigns as champion with prestige better than most previous champions) Thats my top 5

Personally? I got Jericho at #1

Mr. Perfect was always my favorite IC champ. They uses to say that the IC belt was the WRESTLER'S belt.

This needs an update now that Gunther has beaten Honky's record. Most prestigious IC Champ ever

Wrestling fan from the future... WALTER/GUNTHER is the new #1

This was awesome, thanks for posting. I will always have Mr. Perfect as the best Intercontinental champion of all time. The perfect heel champion, made everyone look dynamite in the ring, and was so good at being Intercontinental champion that there wasn't the usual clamor for him to go after the world title. It wasn't a stepping stone for him; it was his role and he embraced that.

Watching in 2023, PUT MY BOY GUNTHER AT THE MF TOP

I'm glad you put my guy Razor in top 3. As a kid he was my favorite wrestler. Over like Rover in in his debut years. Most memorable promos, after all the chicas they for fun Mang😂👌

Honky Tonk man was so underrated man. Dude was a performer. I had the privilege of watching him here in the Stampede territory as much as we hated him he did his job. he even worked at a car wash close to my house when he was coming up.

Anybody else notice how Mick Foley's left-hand has something written on it around 15:24-15:29?...

Curtis and mr perfect aren’t the only father and son to hold the same belt. Kurt angle and Jason jordan😂

HTM and Perfect a clear 1 and 2 for me but an awesome video. Can't imagine the editing involved in that. Great work as always gents

Glad to have finally heard Adam Pacitti going acapella with Randal Keith

Looking back at this listening to JBL's Entry I just realized he is one of the few Attitude Era Talent to hold every Title, minus WHC,WWE Tag Team Championship,Cruiserweight (2001-2007 and 2016-present) and pre NXT/NXT UK, 24/7 and Universal! Impressive.

I remember watching the countdown wondering and waiting to see who it was gonna be. Then the countdown finally hit zero, the music drops, the lights hit and BAM Y2J comes out like a supernova. Had me hooked.

36:57 (for anyone who wants to hear this version of the "RANDELL KEITH" song)

“Long before Angle was angling and Henry was henrying” 🤣🤣🤣

Gunther number one now

Me watching in 2023 and as the time goes your new best intercontinental champion is Gunther 😎

My top 6 favorite IC Champions 1 : Gunther 2 : Randy Savage 3 : Chris Jericho 4 : Shawn Michaels 5 : Ricochet 6 : Shelton Benjamin

Razor Ramon is the guy i remember as the best intercontinental champion ...

I'm genuinely insulted that The Miz is only 6. The Miz deserves better.

May we have a every ROH world champion ranked

Since, I am probably not the only one here, who is mainly a WWE watcher. I´d like a Top 10 Must See Womens Wrestling Matches outside of WWE. would be cool, thanks guys

the randal keith song 😂

You deserve more subscribers you work hard in your videos,but I tell you never give up and you will be a big youtuber

I was mid yawn and nearly collapsed a lung to hit that "Neoooowwww!" 50:20

36:57 randy orton is on the list and adam is singing about it seriously if this whole youtube thing doesn't go well then adam would be literally selling concerts

NEW GRAPHICS YESSSSSSSSSSS

36:57 You Gotta Stop with this Randy Orton thing. I’m dying that song. 🤣🙏😂

The white strap was so damn badass and iconic I really don’t get why the WWE doesn’t realize how iconic their old belts are and replace them with really bad ugly belts. The big gold and pretty much any wwe championship belt before the current one we’re so amazing especially the ones with the eagles on em

Mr. Perfect is the greatest IC champ of all time!!!! I never thought he was going to lose it.

Wait wait wait. How did Tito Santana “never hold championship gold again”. He was a tag team champ with Rick Martel.

Tito Santana may not have held another singles belt after the Intercontinental title, he did have another WWE title after his run with the Intercontinental title ended as he won the WWE Tag Team title with Rick Martel as "Strike Force" .

I love these videos. When he mentions Randy Orton he goes nuts. It’s like saying the secret word in Pee Wee’s playhouse.

Love this kind of video and I'm sure someone else already mentioned this but Shinsuke is the second Asian IC champ, as Steamboat is technically the first. Shinsuke would be the second Japanese IC champ as well since Steamboat is 1/2 Japanese. 🤗

42:08 "I'm Fooked" - Davey Boy Smith, 1992

One of the best RU-vid episodes ever .. love the story, the captions and the whole presentation. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Can we just give Shinsauke credit I mean he pinned Roman and with Vince's brain that is almost impossible especially in a title match.

Wonder where Gunther can go here.

I grew up watching late 80s and early 90s so when I think of Intercontinental championship I think Rick Rude, Curt Hennig, Warrior, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramone

Always will be my favourite title. Loved it the most as a kid. Still love it today. Such a shame it's treated so badly.

Some great debate about this list - as much as this belt is for the true wrestlers it seems to me this list is much more for deeper rather than more casual fans - no aspersions cast on either as age has made me more of the latter. I always saw the IC as a way for guys to propel themselves to good rivalries and a way to showcase their work at PPVs. In that way, they are working towards getting into the mix for the big belt where there is nowhere to hide in terms of your ability to put on good matches and to draw business. I loved Perfect and Razor as IC champs - they had some great matches and rivalries, maybe especially when losing - but neither used the higher profile to catapult themselves to the top of the business (though injuries and moves to WCW perhaps contribute). By contrast, the likes of Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin and Edge all successfully raised their profiles whilst IC champ and showed they could do the business at the top of the organisation. I think the best of these types of IC champion is Bret Hart. The Hitman transformed himself from the tag scene into singles royalty with rivalries and great matches contesting the IC belt. The first ladder match against Michaels, putting over the Bulldog at Wembley, beating Hennig at Summerslam and Piper at Wrestlemania - all very different but brilliantly planned and executed matches that elevated both him and the belt, turning it into the crucial stepping stone for credibility that it was for Michaels, Stone Cold, HHH, The Rock and more.

Bless this man Adam Pacitti for this video!

They gave my man MACHO MAN his respect 😢

Growing up wanting to be a wrestler it was always my dream to be IC champion.....it always just felt like the best wrestlers held it

"Perhaps 2020 will be the year Strowman gets his Wrestlemania moment." Understatement of the year. Even if it was kind of a backdoor moment.

21:08 The one rapper Eminem fears

“Wrestling like he’d rather be Anywhere Else in the World.” AEW.. very clever!

Those randal keith bits 😂😭😂😭. Even while pissed off I got a big laugh from that on repeat.

"Hopefully braun gets his wrestlemania moment this year with the ic title" Braun:*wins UV title instead*

YOWIE WOWIE IM GOING TO RAW LATER AND I’LL DEFINITELY LISTEN TO THIS ON THE WAY TO PASS THE TIME!!!!

Out of all these wrestlers Gold Dust was the one i loved to see. On the mic or in the ring he was a blast to watch.

I don't know much about your work but doing a video so long, and talk during this video that's a lot of work so thanks a lot!

58:27 I love that version of the intercontinental championship. The purple strap with the block logo looked badass

Not gonna lie when Zack Ryder pushed Miz from the ladder and grabbed the belt I got up from my chair and started dancing

It's cool, but I'll always have a soft spot for the "Badaladaladadada" at the beginning lol