Where have you been the past 5 or more years? The IC title is practically meaningless and has been for awhile. It's near impossible to bury the title at this point unless they decided to trash it like Medusa did with the WWE Women's title on Nitro.
You see...every now and then, they have this little glimmer of hope when it comes to the title. Of course it has been 1 step forward 2 steps back for quite some time.