I think you guys are exaggerating all of this.
The X-Division has had plenty of upper-midcard guys as champ before and they've done plenty of "x-division champ is now playing with the big boys" angles in the past. Bully Ray in particular has a feud against the X-Division champ every other year or so. Nothing all that new here, really...
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