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In case you haven't heard yet, Curtis Axel is the first ever progeny of an Intercontinental Champion to win the same belt. Stats in wrestling like that feel hollow to me, but there was a certain amount of what the kids like to call nowadays "The Feels" involved here. Axel won the title on Fathers' Day, a fitting tribute to his late dad, Mr. Perfect. Regardless of how one feels about the way Papa Hennig went out, the idea still makes me feel a bit dusty-eyed. Hopefully now, the era of the Wade Barrett Champion is over, one because it's annoying to see a great story McGuffin like the Intercontinental Championship look dorky, and two, because it's getting tiring reading everyone react to the Intercontinental Champion losing in non-title matches all the time. It's not even that I'm sick of the bitching; they're valid complaints. I'm just sick of it being a thing.