The Day The WWE United States Championship Died

The Women's Tag Team Championships are props again, carried around by Asuka and Charlotte Flair as they engage in singles feuds with Alexa Bliss and Lacey Evans respectively. The Cruiserweight Championship is back in relative obscurity, held and mutually contested by current NXT star Santos Escobar and NXT UK wrestler Jordan Devlin. The SmackDown Tag Team Championships are still in recovery after Adam Pearce forced The New Day and The Street Profits to swap the g*ddamn belts when they no longer matched the colour scheme of the show they were on, all because WWE is a billion dollar branding company but a 10 cent wrestling one. It was the stupidest f*cking thing.

Yet, that lousy last chapter can temporarily be confined to history, because Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins are no longer holding gold. The belts now belong to The Dirty Dawgs, Bobby Roode and Dolph Ziggler. As one of the few pairings in all of WWE that seem to actually get along, there were few others that could have realistically dethroned the Profits nearly a year after they claimed the Raw belts at Elimination Chamber.

Roode and Ziggler were deemed serviceable replacements as Champions in 2021, but it speaks more to how long they've fulfilled that duty on the WWE treadmill. They were both at the heart of (though not particularly at fault for) the United States Championship's own last gasp. And, not unlike the aforementioned title trade between Raw and SmackDown's tag team champions, it was also the stupidest f*cking thing.

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