10 WWE US Title Matches You Should Try To Forget

10. Dean Ambrose Vs. Kane - Payback 2013

Dean Ambrose holds the record for the longest United States Championship reign since the belt was reactivated in WWE, but I'd wager that his reign was also one of the least interesting in the 13 years since the belt returned. Ambrose held the strap for 351 days, and you can count the number of memorable title defences on one hand.

His first pay-per-view defence came against none other than the Demon Kane, who was fresh off losing the tag titles to Ambrose's Shield buddies Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. Throughout the match the commentary team play the bout up as being chaotic, all over the place and frankly the work of lunatics.

In reality this was a pedestrian, plodding affair, and should have acted as the end of Kane's big time singles matches in WWE. Far from being a big time title defence on PPV, this felt more like a top of the hour SmackDown match, all the way down to the finish which saw Dean Ambrose beat Kane by count-out.

The protection of Kane in singles competition in 2013 was baffling, especially against a guy who was clearly going to break out as a singles star eventually.