jinder mahal is the present united states champion in wwe.
jinder mahal is the present united states champion in wwe.
who is the present united states champion in wwe?
jinder mahal
immediately following the royal rumble, general manager daniel bryan announced that there would be a first-ever "smackdown top ten list" as voted on by the smackdown roster. bryan said the list would show who the wrestlers thought should get a title opportunity, but a wrestler could not vote for themselves. the top ten list was revealed on the february 6 episode of "smackdown". the following week, united states champion bobby roode, jinder mahal with sunil singh, and randy orton all exchanged words as mahal made fun of their spots on the list despite mahal not ranking at all; orton and roode were 9th and 5th, respectively. the segment ended after orton attacked sunil with an "rko", and mahal performed the "khallas" on roode and orton. the next episode, mahal again called out roode and orton, and a brawl broke out in which roode attacked orton with a "glorious ddt", but suffered a "khallas" from mahal, who stood tall once again. despite this, commissioner shane mcmahon scheduled roode to face orton for the united states championship at fastlane. the following week in a backstage interview, roode said that in order to be the greatest united states champion of all time, he would have to beat the best, and said that orton was one of the best of all time. orton interrupted and said the u.s. title was the one title he had never held during his wwe career and would be taking it from roode at fastlane. on the final "smackdown" before fastlane, mahal defeated orton due to an interference by roode.
fastlane (2018)
after five years, a new brand extension was introduced on july 19, 2016. raw drafted the wwe women's champion, the united states champion, and the wwe tag team champions, while smackdown drafted the wwe champion and the intercontinental champion; nxt champions were ineligible to be drafted. this distribution of championships remained unchanged at the battleground pay-per-view, which took place the sunday immediately following the draft. with the wwe championship being defended exclusively on smackdown, raw commissioner stephanie mcmahon and general manager mick foley introduced the wwe universal championship to be raw's world title. as smackdown was lacking a tag team championship and a women's championship, smackdown commissioner shane mcmahon and general manager daniel bryan introduced the smackdown tag team championship and smackdown women's championship. subsequently, the wwe women's championship and the wwe tag team championship were renamed as the raw women's championship and the raw tag team championship, respectively. with this, each brand had a world championship, a secondary championship, a tag team championship, and a women's championship: the universal, united states, raw tag team, and raw women's on raw, and the world, intercontinental, smackdown tag team, and smackdown women's on smackdown. however, since raw became the exclusive home of wwe's revived cruiserweight division, they also created a new wwe cruiserweight championship. beginning november 29, 2016, in addition to "raw", the cruiserweight championship was defended on the cruiserweight-exclusive show, "205 live". 205 live would become its own brand in 2018, making the title exclusive to the brand. the wwe united kingdom championship was unveiled in december 2016 with its inaugural holder determined in january 2017. the title later became the top championship for the united kingdom-based nxt spinoff, nxt uk, which debuted in mid-2018 and also introduced the nxt uk women's championship and nxt uk tag team championship. a secondary title of the nxt brand was also introduced in mid-2018, the nxt north american championship. in early 2019, the wwe women's tag team championship was established to be shared between raw, smackdown, and nxt. in may 2019, another championship was introduced for male wrestlers, the wwe 24/7 championship, defended across all five of wwe's brands.
wwe brand extension