Xavier Woods wants to bring back an old Intercontinental Championship design.
Earlier this year, Woods took part in a mini feud with Intercontinental Champion Gunther. Unfortunately, Woods was unable to best the dominant champion.
However, he still does covet the championship. Speaking to Josh Martinez on Superstar Crossover, Woods noted he still wants the championship and would like to revert it back to a classic design.
“Specifically, I want the white leather Intercontinental Championship. I like a story. Me and Seth Rollins are the only ones to beat Roman, you know, up until Jey had pinned him. We don’t talk about that, mind you, but that’s fine. In my head, I feel like in order to climb that mountain and become World Champion one day, I need a US Championship run, I need an Intercontinental Championship run. I need to not only prove to everybody but more importantly, prove to myself that I can stand on my own, I can do this as a solo guy,” he said.
He continued, “That doesn’t mean that I need to break away from Kofi at all because what we do is we tell stories as a family thing. A lot of wrestling has stories of jealousy and backstabbery, ‘I want this leather and this metal. So I’m not friends with you anymore.’ Bro, friendship is the most important thing on this planet to me. That’s the only way that we survive. It’s how we have societies and communities and we grow as a human race, you know. So that’s our focus is telling those stories in wrestling. Hopefully, at some point, we have the chance to tell that story through your boy.”
Xavier Woods
The white leather strap version of the Intercontinental Championship has been used in the past and most recently, was used from 2011 until the current design was debuted a few years back.
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