5 Superstars who should have accepted Seth Rollins' Intercontinental Championship open challenge on Raw 

Seth Rollins is the Intercontinental Champion, it's a title that he has held now for a number of months, but given the fact that he has been part of storylines with The Shield and is currently part of a rivalry with Dean Ambrose, Rollins has been unable to defend the title as regularly as he would like.

The former World Champion announced on Twitter yesterday that the Intercontinental Championship open challenge would be making its return to Raw and that he would be testing his mettle ahead of his meeting with Dean Ambrose at TLC.

Of course, there were many stars who responded to the post online, but it was Dolph Ziggler who made his return following a short absence with a foot injury to accept the challenge and come up short in his quest for his seventh Championship. It was a lackluster episode of Raw this week but interestingly there were so many better options for WWE when it came to picking a challenger for Rollins.

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#5 Ricochet

Ricochet was looking at last night's match as a challenge

The North American Champion perhaps isn't ready for a call-up to the main roster, but that wouldn't have stopped him from making his way to the ring to accept Rollins' challenge in Milwaukee last night.

Ricochet is going to be a huge talent once he is brought up to the main roster, but he Tweeted out last night to state that he was interested in the open challenge that Rollins was setting up, but obviously, he wasn't able to head over to Wisconsin and accept.

Given the fact that last night's Raw wasn't at the level that many of the WWE Universe were expecting heading into the final event of the year, a shock of this caliber would have been exactly what the episode needed in order to spark a reaction from the watching crowd.

Title for title?? 🤷🏽‍♂️🤔🤨 https://t.co/jgkfuQyPxM

— The One And Only! (@KingRicochet) November 26, 2018

#4 Roderick Strong

Roderick Strong could have been the hometown hero on Raw

It's a far-out choice, but Roderick Strong is actually from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and would have definitely woken up the crowd in his hometown if he was the star chosen to walk through the curtain and battle Seth Rollins for the IC title.

Strong has easily proved his worth over and over in NXT as a part of The Undisputed Era and it's now reached the point where Bobby Fish has returned from injury so Strong is no longer needed as part of the group so it could be time for him to decide to head off and start his own legacy.

As a heel, Strong could have taken Rollins to the limit, or WWE could have called up the former Ring of Honor star as a face in his hometown, either way, the pop would have been huge.

#3 Curt Hawkins

Curt Hawkins would have popped the WWE Universe if he accepted the

challeng

Curt Hawkins has been on a massive losing streak over the past few years and open challenges have been his thing where he comes out and is defeated quite easily. Rollins could have given Hawkins a very good match last night since he was on Raw to cheer on Ember Moon in her match against Alicia Fox anyway.

Hawkins losing streak has become a talking point for the WWE Universe in recent weeks and how much more interested would the crowd have been if he answered the challenge and had a number of interesting near falls that kept the watching crowd on the edge of their seats?

Dolph Ziggler may have given Rollins a good match, a match that was easily the best of the night, but Hawkins would have been a much better choice.

#2 Lars Sullivan

Lars Sullivan is set to make his main roster debut in the coming months

Lars Sullivan has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons recently as it appears that there is a vendetta surrounding NXT's monster, but that hasn't bothered his call-up to the main roster since WWE continued to tease the monster heading to Raw or SmackDown Live.

Whilst it could be argued that a loss to Sullivan would have hurt him in his first match, it didn't have to be pin loss, WWE could have allowed Sullivan to win via DQ and then he could have attacked Rollins after the match. This could have been Lars weakening Rollins ahead of his match with Dean Ambrose and would also allow him to have a rematch in the future. Instead, it became a stand-alone match that leads to nothing and was obviously just a filler because Ambrose wasn't in Wisconsin for Raw.

#1 Bray Wyatt

Bray Wyatt could have accepted the challenge

Bray Wyatt returned to the ring at Starrcade on Saturday night where he was victorious in his match against Baron Corbin and had obviously returned as a face. It was well-known that the former leader of the Wyatt Family was backstage at Raw last night and was just waiting for a chance to walk out the curtain.

Wyatt didn't feature on WWE TV, but he could have been a fantastic choice for Rollins since the two stars have their own history from The Shield vs The Wyatt Family and Wyatt also has his own history with Dean Ambrose, since he was the one who stepped inside Hell in a Cell back in 2014 and cost The Lunatic Fringe his match. He could have claimed that he was better than Rollins because he knew how to ground Ambrose and it could have then been the start of some kind of alliance between Rollins and Wyatt moving forward.