Maven: There Was Talk Of Giving Me The WWE Intercontinental Championship But I Felt I Wasn’t Ready

Maven talks about WWE being open to giving him the WWE Intercontinental Championship in 2005. 

Maven was briefly a heel in 2005 before being released from WWE. During that heel run, he feuded with Shelton Benjamin over the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Maven even challenged for the championship on pay-per-view at WWE New Year’s Revolution 2005. 

While he never won the title, Maven revealed in a recent YouTube video discussing the unwritten rules of wrestling that he was being considered for a championship run. However, due to his inexperience, the powers that be decided that he wasn’t ready for a title run of that magnitude just yet. He also said that he agreed with them at the time.

“Unwritten rule number five: Plans are going to change; be able to roll with it. When I was wrestling Shelton Benjamin for the Intercontinental Championship, the original plan was to maybe give me the belt, but being that I just turned to a bad guy and I was still extremely inexperienced, they knew I wasn’t ready,” he recalled. “Now I had one or two options there. I could have hung my head and showed them that I would never be ready, but what I did was agree with them and say, ‘Let me get more experience so that when you are ready, I am ready.’ Realize this is live television. So plans are going to change at any time. Be able to roll with it.” 

Ultimately, the only championship that Maven was able to win in WWE was the WWE Hardcore Championship. However, he was able to pick up a win over The Undertaker to capture that title, a tremendous feather in the cap for any wrestler. 

Maven also recently revealed how much he made as a WWE performer, simultaneously breaking one of his unwritten rules of wrestling. Read more at this link. 

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