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NEW UNITED STATES CHAMPION CROWNED, HUGE NAME ADDED TO RUMBLE, 205 LIVE LINEUP & MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2017-01-09 23:08:00

Chris Jericho captured the WWE United States championship during the main event of Raw, pinning Roman Reigns during a handicap match that also including WWE Universal champion Roman Reigns.  The win gives Jericho the first United States title win of his career.

There will be a lot of Wrestlemania 34 media events tomorrow.

The Undertaker's appearance on Raw was designed to announce that he would be entering the Royal Rumble match on 1/29 in San Antonio, playing up that he won the Rumble a decade ago.  Interesting to note that WWE showed Braun Strowman watching the announcement on a monitor backstage.

Shawn Michaels' appearance was simply to promote his forthcoming WWE Studios film "The Resurrection of Gavin Stone", which will be released theatrically on 1/20.

Announced for tomorrow's episode of 205 Live is WWE Cruiserweight champ Rich Swann vs. Tony Nese and Rich Swann vs. Noam Dar.

Set this week's WWE Main Event is  Mustafa Ali vs. Brian Kendrick and Darren Young & Sin Cara vs. The Shining Stars.

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