6. Back With Its Rightful Owner
Funny how John Cena winning another championship is the right thing, even if fans might boo him nonetheless. But Cena recapturing his United States Championship after losing it at SummerSlam was whats best for business. Anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. Cena singlehandedly turned the U.S. title into a meaningful championship again. Rusev made it something that Americans wanted to capture, but it was Cenas weekly United States Championship Open Challenge that made its defense a main attraction of Raw each week. We saw classic bouts week in and week out, and hopefully that will resume now that Cena has regained the title. Rollins won the title and became the first man to simultaneously hold the U.S. and WWE World Heavyweight Championships, but he wasnt going to start defending both on alternating episodes of Raw, nor was he going to defend both on PPVs (save for Night of Champions, where every title was on the line). So it just made perfect sense for Cena to recapture it.
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