 What's good, Josh Boyros back again with another video. So we're going to check out 10 best WWE intercontinental championship matches of all time by none other than parts one known. This should be a good one. We just checked out his list of the best WWE championship matches. So it's only fitting to check out the best intercontinental championship matches. I already know Gunther versus Seamus has to be in that list. Right? Like what are we talking about? Like Gunther versus Seamus at Clash of the Castle. What are we talking about? Easily one of the best matches from last year. Like what what what Gunther's intercontinental championship reign title reign has been one of the best WWE has ever seen. And I love it. So we're going to check this out. See what other ones are on this list. Appreciate our love support, man. We're going to get right into this video, man. Serious question. Is the intercontinental championship my favorite championship in wrestling history? I don't know how I can expect you to answer that because last time I checked, you're not me and you never will be. Despite WWE's best efforts to make the title irrelevant during the dark days of the 2010s, I think it might just be my favorite title. It's the maximum effort championship, a platform for brass ring grabbing mid-carders and unlike the WWE championship matches, which WWE seem to over complicate with sports entertainment bollocks more often than not, intercontinental matches tended to be allowed to, you know, finish looking back over this list. I've gone back and rewatch these matches may be more than any other top matches list. This right here. This is a good stuff. I'm Adam Haling from parts far known and here are 10 best intercontinental title matches ever. All right. Stop me if you've heard this one before. It's a late night. Netflix hasn't got anything you fancy. You've already bought right into this one, man. Number 10. AJ Styles versus Daniel Bryan Smackdown 2020. Do you have any idea? Do you have any f**king idea how good a pandemic match has to be to make it onto one of these lists and the part of the pandemic where they brought a bunch of TVs in and piped in crowd noise, the part where they had a bunch of random developmental talent being instructed to cheer at gun point. This match managed to get in both matches where they wrestled for the WWE title in front of people such as the magic of the intercontinental title. I suppose I forgot all about this one. I'm not allowed to be a technical wizardry that deserves to be seen. Even if you hate the Netherrealm that was crowdless COVID wrestling, the counter of that Psyconi into a Star's Clash is just peachy and it's great that before Bryan left the company that at least one of his matches with the phenomenal one lived up to both men's full potential. Number 9. Bret Hart versus Mr. Perfect SummerSlam 1991. This is an older match and may lack some of the bells and whistles of the Montanera, but it's really buoyed by a stellar Hulkamania era crowd. At SummerSlam 91, Bret Hart began his ascendancy to singles superstardom by knocking off Mr. Perfect for the IC title and compared to slow moving Titans of the main event scene, the main event of this paper, you by the way, features Sergeant Slaughter and Iron Sheik. Compared to those, this contest between the two best Tekkers boys on the roster was a before my time. No, it's just the extra levels of care and thought that fill in the gaps of Bret Hart matches. No one just sits in the rest hold they claw at hair and they try to fight their way out and that gets the crowd more invested. No one just runs the ropes. They reverse them by grabbing limbs or slamming their sternums into turnbuckles, making every twist and turn seem significant and keep the crowd and the commentators invested. This match is called by Roddy Piper and Bobby Heenan and Grim on soon as well, but mostly those two. So it's worth the price and smooth. It's a masterpiece of subtlety. Mard only slightly by Hebner being a little too quick to ring the bell after a blistering transition into the sharpshooter. Slow down Hebs. Number 8. This is Razor Ramone WrestleMania 10. It might seem like in the context of ladder matches of today, the icy ladder matches at Manus 30 one or 30 have more spots in two minutes than this whole match probably. But back in the day, this was all bells and all whistles and it blew people's tiny minds. A classic in every sense of the word. This match still holds up because A, the crowd reactions are a novelty all of themselves and B, the lack of spots actually makes the match seem way more dangerous than what ladder matches have sort of become a conveyor belt of spots and C, there's actually way more match than most ladder matches with the two clickmates executing really solid technical wrestling before the ladder even comes into play so that when it does, it's even more impactful. Helps when you figure this was gonna. It had to be on the list. It's this matches iconic for not only just being a good air continental championship match, but for the fact of, you know, them really the, you know, introducing ladders into such a match like this, you know, like so many. I mean, shit, where would the ladder match be? If it wasn't for this one right here, you know, where would the modern ladder match stand? You know, and I'm sure maybe at some point someone would be like, Hey, let's bring some ladders into the mix. You know, saying into a wrestling ring, I'm sure it would happen, but the influence that this match had transcended, you know, time as you can say, like people have been inspired by this ladder match, you know, to have their own ladder matches at the crib in become a wrestler. So I have sure Michael's one of the best bumpers of all time bouncing around the steel like a man on fire. Also, even in all the ladder matches that there's been, this is still one of the best closing sequences with Sean getting tangled in the ropes and razor desperately tearing the belts down as Sean lunge for the ladder. It's brilliant. Number seven, Randy Orton versus cactus Jack backlash 2004. Bloody hell though. With one counted RKO, Randy Orton became a man that day, picking up tax out of his hand in a spot and still sends a shiver all the way down the spine. Randy Orton was doing his legend killer thing on his career defining IC title. I forgot that was for the IC title. I forgot that was for the IC title, bro. He went through hell and back just for the IC title. Oh my title runners part of the evolution where he ran afoul of history's craziest Santa Claus Mick Foley who did evolve into cactus Jack to do for Randall what he did for Paul back at the Royal Rumble 2000. IE take a smarmy pretty boy and send them through the fire turning them into a legit main event. It's an insane parade of spots with almost no let up could have done without my dad Eric Bischoff coming out to briefly lecture Mick about fire safety. Other than that, it's a perpetual nightmare of barbed wire stage dives and blood just picturing cactus staying up all night making that barbed wire bed. He's got Stevie Nicks on in the background getting frustrated because the ends of the gaffer tape keeps sticking together between trips Orton and later edge. Mick Foley is the patron saint of carving top guys out of solid suffering. Back macho man Randy Savage versus Ricky the dragon steamboat WrestleMania three some wrestlers prefer to call it in the ring and some like Randy Savage map out matches to the millisecond and hey when the end result is the best match in the first decade of WrestleMania fair play even by modern standards this match is a firecracker lightning quick heard so many good things about this match still surprisingly barbaric feud of macho nearly killing steamboats career with that bell shot to the throat also when steamboat finally rolls up savage to win the title it's an absolutely monumental victory because match amount had held the title for over a full year at this point I mean sure George the animal steal was also there because why wouldn't fill Mitchell's fluffy testicle be at ring star for the most wanted technical displays in the history of the sport it's a match featuring two of the best in the world at the time acting as a perfect combination of Southern technical focus and W.W.S. for an object people was there shenanigans number five Ray Mysterio versus Chris Jericho the bash 2009 risky business to have the story of your match being someone trying to remove Ray Mysterio's mask because that thing breaks can really dunk a match see also Ray and Eddie's match at WrestleMania 21 but this match of the bash putting both Mysterio's mask and Chris Jericho's icy title up for grabs was unbelievably good just perfect pro wrestling two incredibly talented workers with excellent chemistry high stakes and really strong personalities to cut the grabs with enough silly storytelling to keep the fans super invested Chris Jericho especially is a glorious prick in this match desperately trying to rip them off Chris this version of Chris Jericho man with the the soccer mom this version of Chris Jericho man bro he was such a good heel he's such a good heel that man all I can do is just look fondly back on his heel run at this time with the soccer mom haircut him wearing the suits and stuff ah yeah he was good bro mask off Ray's face like he doesn't even give a damn about how merchandisable they are you can tell us a feud ender as well with both men pulling out counter after counter after counter to each other's big moves especially in the last five minutes the match receives the crowd bite for everything of all the big magic trick at the end Ray is so often portrayed as a simple baby face just make sure my good smarting Chris Jericho of all people with a mask within a mask is a lovely little touch for his character that was actually pretty that was actually pretty smart like what a baby face thinking using its brain using the baby face actually being smart what awesome match this number four Chris Jericho versus Chris Benoit Royal Rumble 2001 another one Chris Jericho on here firmly to my head you know like all wrestling fans this is still one of the best ladder matches of all time asked me to name favorite spots from ladder matches and half the ones that come to mind are still ones from this match at the Royal Rumble 2001 the walls of Jericho on top of the ship in the finish the suicide dive into the chair shop Chris Benoit falling off the ladder bouncing off the ropes to the outside Jericho, Benoit, Guerrero, RBD, Edge, Christian all of these men cemented their place in mid card legend with intercontinental ladder matches honestly the only top guy from WWE's mid card back then who never fought for the dangling strap was Kurt Angle seems mad that's crazy you think about it this one is the best spectacular without sacrifice and technical skill brutal without spilling a drop of blood is an absolute clinic in how no one could touch WWE in early 2001 number three Gunter versus Drew McIntyre versus Seamus WrestleMania 39 Gunter is my this was good I ain't gonna hold you this was this was fantastic this was this was yeah, bro this was fantastic this was a real good match favorite thing and I feel confident saying that murder accountant does not had a bad match in WWE yet actually wait remember that survival series match where they eliminated him immediately for no reason yeah we're not going to talk about that let's not even bring now went up that to this day I was like oh no he's done but thank goodness that wasn't the case let's not bring that up f***ing hell I'm not going to lie I could have done without Titus O'Neill on commentary for sure which might be screaming for someone to call the police and also the repeated adverts for hard lemonade but otherwise this is about as good a host fight as you can get three men who satisfy three very different daddy kinks beating the breaks off each other for our viewing pleasure and it's just as messy and violent as any decent psychopath desire the little micro match between Drew and Gunter as well it's just leathering each other with chops it's so exciting it gets a little mini standing evasion and it's a very exciting little preview for what's sure to be a five star affair at SummerSlam great little subplot of Drew and Sheamus is deteriorating friendship as well it's just so good and it's genuinely lovely to hear Michael Cole giggling on commentary at the sheer amount of absurd fun nightmare slap happy stuff happening on screen number two Sami Zayn versus Kevin Owens versus Cesaro versus the Miz Extreme Rules 2016 I feel like I'm going to get attacked for bookiness above the rest on main of 39 match but heart dammer just rewatched it's up there for being one of my favorite matches ever it's just got all my top lads in it Cesaro is amazing Sami and Kevin not only great themselves but have a bloody brilliant story going on and I don't care what Luke says I love this area of the Miz I've waxed poetic about this match before in our list of best fatal four ways of all time watch that list and send me presents but it bears repeating this is a match with not only a beautiful pace a sense of spectacle and emotional course there's also a really fun joke at the heart of it what would happen if the most sports entertainment man to ever exist crashed a ring of honor wrestling match through hell and Miz repeatedly sneaking into pick up the scraps I made it clear my favorite matches of the year list watch presents that I love multi-man matches with a lot of silly moving parts and this is a shining example of that and a brilliant example of what the icy title belt can do shine a huge spotlight on extremely talented mid card and number one Gunther versus Sheamus Clash the Castle 2022 as much fun as a good multi-man can be you got to love a really good singles match for the intercontinental title nothing more maximum I didn't think of it I wasn't sure it was going to be number one I thought he was going to probably have it like maybe number two or number three but you know what I can't blame him card guys really going for it for the icy and this is probably the best example of that maybe ever Sheamus rejuvenated his whole career in one match Imperium got back together and Gunther truly arrived on the main roster all wrapped up in pure five star violence from the moment Giovanni Vinci appeared to the really fun chaos as Gunther and Sheamus stare each other down to the twenty minutes of brutality that followed the match so good it created an instantly iconic pairing so much so they immediately ran it back at the Royal Rumble not only was the match supremely violent there was also tight psychology in the target of Sheamus's back had played into the finish plus the overjoyed UK fans showing Sheamus the kind of love he hadn't received in so very long I had a blast watching it in Gunther's matches I just like that they leave you giddy with how much punishment everyone's taking in front of you yeah long may he reign and that's it what's your favorite in the continental time facts man back step I I cannot disagree with him having that as his number one as one of the best in a car in a matches I have ever seen in my life it is so good of a match bro five stars it's not even honestly honestly if drew if it if it wasn't for drew versus Roman Reigns and how good that was at class at the castle that probably would have been match of the night honestly people still consider this match of the night and then the main event a close second you really can interchange them like that that match was so good so fantastic and it just shows that right now Gunther is making that title seems so damn important and I appreciate it as it should he is brought prestige back to the Intercontinental Championship and I love it so comment down below let me know what's your favorite intercontinental championship match of all time man if it wasn't on this list already but I appreciate all of the sports guys showing on the channel road to 150K now I'm still going to speed a huge wrestling champion the world appreciate y'all kicking me see our next one peace