Let us take a look at the top 8 WWE News & Professional Wrestling stories of the hour:
8. Roman Reigns Captures The United States Championship At Clash of Champions 2016
“The Guy” Roman Reigns defeated Rusev at Clash of Champions 2016 to win the United States Championship. No other Title changed hands at the PPV and below are the results from the show:
– Kickoff Match: Nia Jax def. Alicia Fox
– Raw Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day (c) def. Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson to retain the Titles.
– Cruiserweight Championship Match: TJ Perkins (c) def. The Brian Kendrick to retain the Title.
– Match #7 of “Best of 7” Series: Cesaro vs. Sheamus ends in a No-Contest.
– Chris Jericho def. Sami Zayn
– Raw Women’s Championship Match: Charlotte (c) def. Bayley & Sasha Banks to retain the Title.
– United States Championship Match: Roman Reigns def. Rusev (c) to win the Title.
– WWE Universal Championship Match: Kevin Owens (c) def. Seth Rollins to retain the Title.
It should be noted that all 3 Shield members have now held the United States Championship & WWE World Championship.
7. WWE Hall of Famer Arrested Again
WWE Hall of Famer Sunny has been arrested yet again! She was arrested in Palmerton, Pennsylvania on Friday night. No information is available as of now regarding what caused the arrest and she’ll remain in jail over the weekend. She’s in custody at the Carbon County Correctional Facility as of now.
6. New Stable on SmackDown Live?
There has been talks of doing a SmackDown Live stable similar to WCW’s Varsity Club (which consisted of Rick Steiner, Mike Rotunda, Steve Williams, Kevin Sullivan and Dan Spivey).
The proposed members of this new stable are Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and Shelton Benjamin (who was scheduled to return to WWE on the blue brand but suffered a shoulder injury). The name of this new stable would be “Shooters”.
