5 Reasons an Intercontinental Title Reign Could Have Saved CM Punk’s Wrestling Career

2) Honky Tonk’s Record

CM Punk was WWE Champion for 434 days. During his IC title run, the magic number would have been 455 to break The Honky Tonk Man’s record. Coming off the longest WWE World Championship reign in modern history, striving to do the same with the IC title is a story fans would have been absorbed in for an entire year.

That would have brought amazing prestige and importance to the Intercontinental Champion and solidified Punk as the greatest IC Champion of all time. That is an old school story that fit with Punk’s character, the history of WWE and made the Intercontinental Championship more important than it had ever been.