It’s a similar concept with the midcard belts. How many reigns have/did guys like Kofi, Ziggler, Barrett, etc. have with the IC/US belts? Those titles were supposed to be stepping stones for rising stars on their way up the card and back in the day they were. Instead they eventually became ceilings for guys that the company might’ve valued, but not at a main event level. So you’ve got someone like say, Ziggler with like 5 or 6 runs with the IC belt when there were atleast a few times during those runs where he was ready to graduate beyond that level, but they never put the machine behind him, so he became what we have today.
