10 Fascinating WWE SummerSlam 2015 Facts
3. It Marked The First US Title Match On SummerSlam's Main Show In Ten Years
If it takes a chair-wielding Jon Stewart to facilitate a notable title change, so be it. The gag was that Stewart ran interference in Cena and Rollins' US Title vs. WWE TItle match because he didn't want Cena matching Ric Flair's 16 World Championships (was Stewart denied entry to the Alamodome for the 2017 Royal Rumble?).
Rollins won Cena's US Title, becoming the first man since Chris Benoit in 2005 to win the US Title on SummerSlam's pay-per-view card. That's because the title-for-title match was also the first US Title match on the pay-per-view card since 2005. Santino Marella lost the belt to Cesaro at the 2012 show, but that was the pre-show.
From 2006 to 2014, the champions were Finlay, MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Kofi Kingston, The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, Santino Marella, Dean Ambrose, and Sheamus, come SummerSlam day. Not one of them even had a match on their respective SummerSlam main cards, unless you count MVP getting assaulted by Steve Austin in a beer-drinking contest at the 2007 show. So yeah, Cena truly did elevate the belt once he won it.