10 New Directions For WWE After Hell In A Cell 2016
7. New US Title Challenger
Completing the hat trick of new title challengers, next we move onto the United States Championship scene.
The first—and longest—of the three Cell matches on Sunday evening saw Roman Reigns successfully defend his US title against Rusev, after a pretty awesome spear from off of the steel steps.
Presumably, that means that this rivalry is just about dead in the water, what with Rusev being winless in his four meetings with Reigns since August. This time though, there isn’t really a prime candidate waiting in the wings to give Roman a run for his money.
As such, it’s starting to look likely that rather than going on to defend his US title at Survivor Series, Reigns could be instead inserted into the inter-promotional elimination match at the PPV, with a challenger being decided further down the line. In fact, said challenger may even emerge at Survivor Series, should one member of team Raw happen to have trouble co-existing in the makeshift team.
Long story short; the US title picture is all-but-guaranteed a new direction, but right now the exact nature of that direction is a little unclear.