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Far too lazy to read all of that but I think a few years ago the IC belt was a headlining belt.
In the era of Benoit, Eddie, RVD and Jericho fighting over the belt especialy around the time when Benoit took the belt to Smackdown it was a top level belt. I am pretty sure it mainevented the card often on Raw and really was a massively focal part of the show contested often more hotly than the world belt.
It was a main eventing, drawing belt, I cant have been the only one tuning in mostly too see who was going to take it out this week. It was fast paced, action packed and with guys who made me just go wow everythime they entered the ring.
Now you could argue that having ladder matches etc took away from it (there was a lot of IC title ladder matches in that era) but I dont think it did. While the moves were more stunning each and everyone of those guys made it all about the belt every single night.
I think its really a shining and underappreciated era of the belt right from the first win by RVD through until Kanes loss to HHH unifying it.
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