Saw this today on the NJPW site – in addition to the IWGP World Heavyweight title reigns being retroactively folded into the IWGP Heavyweight title lineage, the same has now also happened to the IWGP Intercontinental title.
Thoughts? It feels strange thinking of Ospreay, ZSJ, SANADA and especially Okada (given he was so strongly associated with the HW) as former IC champs, but it also makes sense given Tsuji's announcement de-unifying the belts.
It also makes the IC lineage look even stronger historically – which I think helps its case as the 1B title to the HW's 1A all those years before unification.
Even though the IWGP World Heavyweight lineage page still exists for now, it feels like a further step towards gently glossing over that title's existence at all.
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