10 Forgotten WWE Intercontinental Champions
Perhaps we should call them 'Test runs'?
7. Billy Gunn
The first time WWE tried to make Billy Gunn a top-level singles star, they booked him to win the 1999 King of the Ring and then quickly placed him into a programme with The Rock, culminating in a SummerSlam showdown with The Great One.
It didn't work, and WWE soon put the New Age Outlaws back together.
When Mr. Ass was due to come back from an injury in the fall of 2000, WWE gave it the old college try once again, re-packaging Gunn as 'The One', giving him entrance music straight out of sure-to-be-cancelled sitcom and awarding him the Intercontinental Title.
Gunn beat Eddie Guerrero on the November 23, 2000 episode of SamckDown.
He defended the title twice - a rematch with Guerrero and a DQ win over Val Venis - before relinquishing it to Chris Benoit at Armageddon. And I mean relinquishing, because The Rabid Wolverine just dismantled him out there, effectively putting an end to any chance that Gunn had of advancing up the card.
Overall, Gunn held the IC belt for seventeen uneventful days that practically confirmed he wasn't cut out for anything above the midcard tag team level.
Still, cracking entrance music.
Written by Lewis Howse
Features journalist for Cultaholic.com and script writer for the Cultaholic YouTube Channel.
