Cody Rhodes Beats Kevin Owens to Retain Undisputed WWE Title at SNME

Cody Rhodes defeated Kevin Owens on Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion to retain the undisputed WWE Championship.

After Owens despatched Rhodes into the official, knocking him out of the ring, he tried to pin Rhodes, however and not using a referee to rely it, the pinfall was invalid. A second official stepped in, however shortly after, Rhodes unintentionally took out the brand new referee whereas leaping from the ropes.

With each officers down, Owens introduced a chair into the match, however the plan backfired when Rhodes used it to ship a Crossroads, driving Owens into the chair. Rhodes rapidly disposed of the proof simply as a referee returned to the ring to rely the pinfall.

Rhodes and Owens had been as soon as the very best of buddies to the purpose that they went to struggle collectively in an try and take down The Bloodline, however their dynamic modified at Dangerous Blood in October.

Regardless of his longstanding points with Roman Reigns, Rhodes agreed to group with the Authentic Tribal Chief in opposition to Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu in hopes of stopping the brand new Bloodline from operating roughshod.

The reluctant partnership labored with Rhodes and Reigns popping out on high, however The American Nightmare in the end paid the value for aligning himself with Reigns.

After the present, Owens attacked Rhodes within the parking zone, which cemented his heel flip, though he initially wasn’t given a chance to clarify his actions.

When KO tried to struggle Cody once more, Randy Orton stepped in to maintain the peace since he was buddies with each of them, however he received caught within the crossfire and ended up changing into a sufferer of a KO assault.

That led to a scheduled match between Owens and Orton at Crown Jewel that by no means truly occurred as a result of they brawled earlier than the bell rang. On the following episode of SmackDown, Orton and Owens blended it up once more, and Owens ended up hitting Orton with a piledriver.

That infuriated Rhodes to the purpose that he wished to get a bit of Owens, and a WWE Championship match between the previous buddies was made official for Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion shortly thereafter.

Owens was finally in a position to give his reasoning for turning on Cody as effectively, noting that Rhodes sided with somebody who tried to finish his profession on quite a few events in Reigns, which did not sit effectively with him.

Whereas Owens’ reasoning was sound, it may be argued that he did not go about dealing with it the appropriate manner, so the WWE Universe was nonetheless firmly in Cody’s nook.

With Rhodes retaining the WWE Championship in opposition to Owens at Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion, he took one other step towards holding the title for a full calendar yr, as he received it from Reigns at WrestleMania 40 again in April.

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