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When Should Sheamus Win The Intercontinental Title, If Ever? | Question Of The Day

January 26, 2025

Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day!

Last night during WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, Sheamus lost yet another bid to win the Intercontinental Championship as Bron Breakker just barely got his foot on the ropes and ultimately scored a pinfall over The Celtic Warrior. This title remains elusive to Sheamus, who only needs this in order to be classified a Grand Slam Champion, but it continues to evade his capture.

My question for you today is “Should Sheamus ever win this title, and if so, when and how would you book it?”

Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.

As far as my answer…

Should he ever? Absolutely. There’s really no reason why he shouldn’t, in my mind, other than at particular moments—as in, I see nothing that says “Sheamus can’t/shouldn’t win the IC title”, only “Right now, it wouldn’t be best for Sheamus to be holding that title, so let’s wait to do it another time.”

I don’t think Bron Breakker should’ve dropped it last night, but I do think if it would have happened, it would have bumped up Saturday Night’s Main Event to feel more special. Overall, nothing happened on this show, compared to how the last time at least crowned the first Women’s United States Championship winner. This time, all titles stayed where they were, and while the matches were fun, the closest thing to storyline progression was Jacob Fatu wrecking Braun Strowman. Had there been an intercontinental title change, that would have been a huge moment.

But has this reached a “huge moment” status to where it should happen at WrestleMania and nowhere else? That’s up for debate. I’d at least hear the discussion, but I’m actually leaning more toward something else in mind, which would depend entirely on matters that would be out of my control even if I were on WWE Creative.

Let’s just say WWE hired me to be on that team today. My pitch would be “Can we get a pay-per-view in Ireland in 2025? Shoot for something like Backlash in May or whatever the June/July show would be that isn’t Money in the Bank. Give it either a name of one of the events on the backburner that you need to re-up the trademark for (like Fully Loaded, Breaking Point, etc) or one of the Bash in Berlin / Clash at the Castle style names like “Destruction in Dublin” or whatever, and book this as the main event in one of those rare instances where the Intercontinental Championship can get a spotlight, similar to SummerSlam 92. Make it so Sheamus earns his way into a title opportunity, but consider booking it as a “last chance” match or a retirement match or something where if he loses, he’ll never get another shot at accomplishing this goal. Maybe not, as that could spoil the ending, but at least think about it.

This would give Breakker more time as champion, which I think he needs in order to really set himself up for upper-midcard status later in 2025 heading into 2026. Breakker loses the match, but by this point, I think it’s time to turn him babyface, so he ends up raising the new champion’s hand and walks off to give Sheamus the ring to celebrate. The next episode of Raw, Breakker acknowledges Sheamus was the better man, and some heels come out to talk smack, with one of them now starting a feud with Sheamus as the first challenger and the other starting a feud with Breakker to give him something to do.

Sheamus holds the Intercontinental Championship until maybe WrestleMania 42, but he could certainly drop it well before that point, as the big purpose of this is the title win itself, not the reign. Depending on when this would take place, even something like SummerSlam could be okay for him to drop the title, or around an autumn month. Who he drops it to depends on any number of unknowns, but maybe someone like a Carmelo Hayes or Chad Gable who could benefit from beating the former multi-time world champion.

What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!

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