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Cody Rhodes defeated Kevin Owens on Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion to retain the undisputed WWE Championship.
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After Owens despatched Rhodes into the official, knocking him out of the ring, he tried to pin Rhodes, however with out a referee to depend it, the pinfall was invalid. A second official stepped in, however shortly after, Rhodes by accident 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 depend the pinfall.
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Rhodes and Owens have been as soon as one of the best of pals to the purpose that they went to struggle collectively in an try to take down The Bloodline, however their dynamic modified at Dangerous Blood in October.
Regardless of his longstanding points with Roman Reigns, Rhodes agreed to staff with the Unique Tribal Chief in opposition to Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu in hopes of stopping the brand new Bloodline from working 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 car parking zone, which cemented his heel flip, though he initially wasn’t given a possibility to elucidate his actions.
When KO tried to combat Cody once more, Randy Orton stepped in to maintain the peace since he was pals 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 combined it up once more, and Owens ended up hitting Orton with a piledriver.
That infuriated Rhodes to the purpose that he needed to get a chunk of Owens, and a WWE Championship match between the previous pals 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 fitting method, 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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