5 Best & 5 Worst WWE Things Of 2018

#2 (BEST): Intercontinental Championship Scene

Rollins wins the Intercontinental Championship after beating The Miz and Balor at WrestleMania

It was WrestleMania 31 in 2015 where WWE finally decided to elevate its two midcard titles and restore their long lost prestige back. That night Cena won the United States title while Bryan won the Intercontinental title.

While the US title thrived post 2015 - thanks in large part to Cena's open challenges and his feud with then NXT Champion Kevin Owens, the IC title didn't really do so well after Bryan's retirement and subsequent line of underwhelming champions.

Thankfully, all that changed soon after the brand split in 2016 with the cracking title vs. career rivalry between The Miz and Dolph Ziggler. 2018 was even better for the historically rich title and this time, it was The Architect involved in the mix.

Together, The Miz and Seth Rollins redefined the RAW midcard scene along with Finn Balor for the first half of the year, having great TV matches left and right, culminating in one of the best matches of WrestleMania 34.

Since then, the Intercontinental title has been the de facto main event on RAW - also because of the absence of the Universal title on the brand and managed to main event a WWE 2018 PPV (Extreme Rules) with the iron man match between Rollins and Ziggler.

This was in itself a phenomenal feat since firstly, the WWE Championship was also defended on the same show and secondly, the last time IC title was defended in any PPV main event was at the 2001 Backlash event, in a match which also featured the WWF Championship and the WWF Tag Titles being defended at the same time.

Hopefully, the way WWE has rejuvenated the Intercontinental title and capitalized on it on RAW, they can do the same with the United States title on Smackdown come 2019 too.