Top 10 Intercontinental Title matches in  WrestleMania History

#6 Daniel Bryan def. Champ Bad News Barrett and 5 others in a Ladder Match (WrestleMania 31, 2015)

Daniel Bryan won the IC Title in what was almost his final WrestleMania match

This would be the final WrestleMania match for Daniel Bryan until this year’s event. He retired not too long after this match as well. Officially, it was almost a year later that he retired, but only a month after this title win would we see him in his final match (until this year!), where he teamed with John Cena to defeat Cesaro & Tyson Kidd.

The other members in this match were Bad New Barrett, Stardust, Dolph Ziggler, R-Truth, Dean Ambrose, and Luke Harper. Many people were less than thrilled to see Bryan at this position on the card for multiple reasons. For one, he was way above the IC Title and all of the other wrestlers in the match.

He did state later on that his goal was to make the Intercontinental Championship a big deal, and that he wanted to essentially make it the World Title of SmackDown. This was before the most recent brand split. The second reason that people (myself included) were upset was that everyone clearly wanted Bryan to main event for the second year in a row, and especially wanted to see him take on Brock Lesnar.

This was after the infamous Royal Rumble match that Bryan wasn’t even a part of. They even teased him getting the spot when Reigns put his title shot on the line at Fastlane, but Bryan was unable to wrest the number one contendership away from Roman. Three years later and Roman is once again facing Brock Lesnar in the main event. At least this time Bryan is in a more high-profile match.