Before Gunther captured the championship on SmackDown, the title was held by the Highlight Of The Night, Ricochet.
Ricochet’s run came at a time when the championship was lacking in solid reigns, coming just before Triple H took over WWE creative control and put more focus on WWE’s midcard championships.
In a new interview with Ryan Satin on the Out Of Character podcast, Ricochet discussed his near hundred day reign as champion, noting that he was happy with his run as champ.
“I felt great. To even be part of the lineage that is the Intercontinental Championship is great. To be able to etch your name in that history is amazing. I’m still fairly new here, compared to a lot of the people who have been here for a decade plus. I think there is still more time to grow and more time to have those opportunities. With what I’ve had already, I was pretty happy with it. If you dwell on the negatives, that’s how you’re going to feel about it. I don’t look at anything negatively, really, ever, anymore. I feel, what we were able to do and what I was able to do, and even after, it was Sami Zayn to me and now Gunther, it’s been good. Anything I can do to add positive connotation to any title, any aspect of wrestling in general, I’m happy with it. I was pretty happy with my run.”
“Obviously, when you’re a champion or in the company in general, you want to be in those positions and want to have as much as possible because that’s what we do it for. If it happens again and there is an opportunity, I’m going to jump on it and make the most of it. For what we did at the time, I think it was good, especially because it jumped right into Gunther, who has done what he’s done with it. more time would have been great, but what I was able to do, I was pretty happy with it. There is still so much room for more.”
Ricochet
Ricochet would go onto try win the title back from Gunther but would fail. Now, he is currently teaming with Braun Strowman.
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