10 Forgotten WWE Intercontinental Champions
Perhaps we should call them 'Test runs'?
8. Road Dogg
Oh, didn't you know? Wait...that's not how that goes, is it?
Anyway, the Road Dogg. You all remember him, yeah, the massively over member of the New Age Outlaws and D-Generation X. A true Attitude Era success story who found his niche at the perfect time.
Though his double act with Billy Gunn was a proven winner and had a lot more mileage left in it, WWE decided to break them up in early 1999. Vince McMahon has never really been bothered about tag teams and the company saw two potential singles stars (more so with Gunn) and so gave them individual pushes.
Surprisingly, the D-O-Double G was the first one to capture gold, beating Val Venis for the Intercontinental Title on the March 15, 1999 episode of Raw. Well, he was the first one to win gold by about an hour or so, because Gunn won the Hardcore Title later in the same show.
The Road Dogg's lone TV title title defense took place against Gunn (whose Hardcore Title was also on the line) the next week on Raw, in a match that went to a no-contest.
He then successfully defended it in a blah four-way elimination match at WrestleMania XV, outlasting Ken Shamrock, Goldust and Val Venis, before dropping it to the Bizarre One the next night on Raw.
It was good of WWE to throw the Dogg a bone, but again this was a short reign of nothing.
Written by Lewis Howse
Features journalist for Cultaholic.com and script writer for the Cultaholic YouTube Channel.
