28 WTF Moments From WWE Royal Rumble 2017

16. Back In The Summer Of '16

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'Member when WWE SmackDown Live couldn't decide what to call their main championship?

'Member when one person would call it one thing, another would call it something different, then a third would come up with a name completely unrelated to the other two in the space of the same episode? Well those days were back at the Royal Rumble as AJ Styles was listed as the "WWE World Champion despite the fact the title has been known as the 'WWE Championship' for some time now.

Greg Hamilton claimed the match was for the WWE Championship and called the Phenomenal one WWE Champion, while the announcers, on the whole, followed suit. Heck, if you took a look at WWE.com during the course of the show, you would have seen Styles listed as WWE Champion still...

It's obvious now that the person in the truck working the graphics on the night was gutted when he didn't see the big gold belt make a sensational return.

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