Loss Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted November 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2012 Jack Tunney announces that the IC title is vacant since one man cannot defend both titles, which makes me wonder why they even bothered going title vs title at Wrestlemania. Was it just so they could do the tagline? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted November 12, 2012 Report Share Posted November 12, 2012 In retrospect, I should have seen the result coming with the title vs. title stip. Can anyone seriously imagine Finkle saying, "The winner, and NEW Intercontinental Champion, Hulk Hogan!"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 title vs. title was stupid and this in some ways honestly may be an underrated factor in the devaluing of that title overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Tunney makes a big statement that the Intercontinental Title will be vacant due to Warrior also being WWF Champion. Well, they ha to get the IC Title off him at this point. A tournament will be set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Hey, Jack Tunney! I miss having an authority figure who only makes decisions a few times per year. I think the thinking behind Title vs Title was to make the match feel even more epic, since a Title vs Title match had never been held before (and really, I think they may have only done it one or two other times since). That said, with hindsight being 20/20, I think it would have been smarter for Rude to drop the IC title to somebody else, which would have further protected Rude as a future challenger for Warrior since he would have never been beat back by Warrior for the IC title, and then have Perfect win the IC belt from that somebody else at Mania. Based on the timeline, I guess Beefcake makes the most sense for that spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Had to sneak this a glance before catching up to Capitol Combat. Jack Tunney looks like he's actually be dug up for this appearance. It's like they kept in in a Crypt and wheeled him out once in a while to make these pronouncements. Also, his voice he vaguley sounds -- super-specific, semi-obscure reference inbound -- like the King of Hearts during the trial in the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, specifically during the trial scene where he says "All persons over a mile high, must leave the court immediately". I did say it was specific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 The announcement that Warrior's forfeited the IC title. Gee, what a shock! I like Cox's thinking here, but the most obvious candidate (based on the fact that he was starting a feud with Rude during the summer of '89) was Piper. The question is: Would Rod have let himself lose on pay-per-view to Hennig at Mania VI? We all know he didn't lay down in any fashion on a major card until Mania VIII, and that was at least partially because Bret was (distant) family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew wardlaw Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Chad has an interesting point about this helping to devalue the IC title. It's clearly looked at as a lesser title here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 Tunney says that on April 1 WWF history was made with one man holding both the WWF Intercontinental and WWF World titles. Since no-one man can properly fulfil the requirements needed to defend both titles at the same time, the Ultimate Warrior has surrendered the Intercontinental title to him. He has declared it vacant and ordered a tournament to be held to determine who will be the new champion with the participants to be announced next week. This looks as though Tunney was reading this off a board somewhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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