Boards.ie PW Intercontinental Champion Tournament

ShagNastii

I gotta give my man Barrett a vote. Him and a few others have really brought prestige back to the IC strap. All of Eddie's best mid-card stuff was with the Tag belts (Los Guerreros) and the Euro belt (Chyna/Latino Heat).

Benoit gets my second vote. We all know how it went down but his career and rise to the top was great feud after great feud.

Necro

Guerrero and Santana. Simply can't vote for Benoit in any way shape or form.

JP Liz V1

Chris and Eddie

ShagNastii

The Radicals go through quite smoothly. Both could have a decent run if they are given a good draw. Taking a dragon across the border for the next two fights of round one.

Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
WMIII's Champion



VS

The Mountie
"IIIIII'MM THE MOUNTIE"




AND


Val Venis
"Hello Laaaaaadies"



VS

Lance Storm
"Allow Me To Be Serious"

ricero

The big valbowski and steamboat get my vote

JP Liz V1

Ricky and Val

Necro

Yep, Val Venis and Steamboat for me too.

gerrybbadd

Valbowski and The Dragon for sure

Loughc

Helllooooooo Dragonfly

Val and Ricky steamboat for me!

ShagNastii

Steamboat and Venis make easy work of The Mountie and Lance Storm. Ten singles match-ups and a handful of Triple Threat matches remain in the first round. Next matches-first to four.

Rocky Maivia
“Blue Chip Turns Sour”


VS

Rikishi
“Can He Drive Over The Rock?”



AND



Ken Patera
“World Strongest Champion”



VS

Goldust
“Remember the Name”

connemara man

The Rock
&
GOOOOOLDUST

gerrybbadd

Rock and Goldust

Moneymaker

Rock and Goldust. Two of the most memorable IC champions of the 90s.

Omackeral

Gonna go with Rock and Goldust too.

Rock had good IC feuds with Austin, Hunter and Ken Shamrock.

Goldust > Patera from an entertainment point of view.

ShagNastii

A mega that would become more Hollywood than Hogan and IMHO one of the most underated workers of all time Goldust advance. Plus points for noticing the gold intercontinental championship sported by Rhodes. If you were one of the many coloured strap champs you get much kudos form myself. I count that as two whitewashes in a row. This round I can’t see a whitewashes-four talents to duke it out.

HHH
“The Blue Blood Champ and The Black Blood Champ”



VS

Shelton Benjamin
“Ain’t No Stopping Shelton”



AND

Rob Van Dam
“Five Star Extreme Champion”


VS

Edge
“We Thought We Knew Him”

First to four.

Blue_Dabadee

Shelton Benjamin and RVD

Sin Eater

Shelton Benjamin, feel like at the times he held it he was one of the most promising talents around, put on consistently great matches.

Edge, just because I always found him more entertaining than RVD.

ricero

Ah come on hhh has to get the win here. The game always wins ! And edge gets my other vote

Moneymaker

Like the Rock, HHHs rise began with the IC title. He gets my vote.

Same goes for Edge. Though RVD was a good champion also.

gerrybbadd

HHH And RVD

Ken Shamrock

HHH easily over Benj.

I loved RVD and his run but Edge has Intercontinental champ really set the stage for him to become what he was. Loved his style in ring and out and his title defenses as champ. Edge for me.

ShagNastii

HHH and Edge advance. Glad to see Shelton get knocked out always gone him dull as dishwater. IC HHH was no doubt one of the stand out for the New Generation Era.


A Triple Threat round next. Two Brits and one of the earlier champion.

Drew Mcintyre
“The Chosen Champion”


VS

“British Bulldog” Davy Boy Smith
80,335 Fans Packed Wembley To See Davy Win”


VS


Pedro Morales
“The HOF Puerto Rican

ricero

The British bulldog gets my vote

gerrybbadd

I'm a huge fan of Drew's, but it's the Bulldog that wins it for me here

Loughc

“British Bulldog” Davy Boy Smith


His match with Bret at Summerslam is a wrestling clinic and will go down as one of the best Summerslam Main Events ever.

Necro

Yeah, British Bulldog ftw here. One of those guys who should have been a world champion imo.

JP Liz V1

Davey Boy

ShagNastii

Davy Boy makes slim pickens of Drew and we get no vote for Pedro. Yet another Triple Threat. A man with a cracking A*se and two blokes who would appricate a box in the mush.

Cody Rhodes
”Model Issues




VS

“Ravishing” Rick Rude
”No Sweat-hog Allowed”


VS

Billy Gunn
“Just THE ONE reign for Billy” Ba-dum-cha

Moneymaker

Bulldog for obvious reasons.

That match will still be talked about 50 years from now.

Ken Shamrock

Billy for me, i thought Rude was the better champion but Billy was always a personal fav of mine and it was great to see him with the belt.