WWE taped next week’s episode of Smackdown last night in Fresno, CA. The episode is scheduled to air next week on December 25th, 2018. A notable spoiler took place during last night’s tapings as well.
In a match for the United States championship, Rusev defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the title for the third time in his career. Both the date the match was taped on and the date it will air on happened to fall on Rusev Day.
On the edition of Smackdown which aired last night, Rusev spoke about winning back “his” United States Championship.
Nakamura would later reply that Rusev was not a true challenger for his title but rather a “Total Diva”.
Rusev, Shinsuke Nakamura, United States Championship
The last time Rusev held the United States Championship was in 2016. He lost the title during that reign to Roman Reigns. His previous run with the belt was from 2014 to 2015. That reign ended when he was defeated by John Cena for the title.
Nakamura won the United States title from Jeff Hardy at Extreme Rules this year. He defended it successfully against Hardy at SummerSlam as well. Nakamura previously defended the title successfully against Rusev on the Crown Jewel Kickoff show too. He also defended the title successfully against Tye Dillinger and was twice DQ’ed in title defenses against Jeff Hardy.
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