Intercontinental Championship

Item from WWE by WWE / TKO Group

The workhorse title — the belt of the best in-ring competitors, whose reign list reads as a who's who of wrestling's most technically gifted performers.

Also known as: The IC Title, The Intercontinental Title, The Workhorse Title

What They Know

• Pat Patterson is considered the first Intercontinental Champion, having won a tournament in Rio de Janeiro — though this origin story exists entirely in kayfabe
• Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels had a legendary ladder match for the IC title at WrestleMania X in 1994
• Honky Tonk Man held the Intercontinental Championship for 454 days — still the longest reign in title history
• The title has been vacated, retired, and reintroduced multiple times — its lineage is genuinely complicated

Connections

• held_by — macho_man
• held_by — shawn_michaels
• held_by — stone_cold
• held_by — the_miz
• held_by — kevin_owens
• held_by — sami_zayn
• contested_at — wrestlemania
• contested_at — summerslam

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