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

Cody Rhodes defeated Kevin Owens on Saturday Night time’s Most important 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 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.

Rhodes and Owens have been as soon as one of the best of associates to the purpose that they went to warfare collectively in an try to take down The Bloodline, however their dynamic modified at Unhealthy Blood in October.

Regardless of his longstanding points with Roman Reigns, Rhodes agreed to group 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 prime, 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 chance to clarify his actions.

When KO tried to struggle Cody once more, Randy Orton stepped in to maintain the peace since he was associates with each of them, however he bought caught within the crossfire and ended up turning 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 next 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 chunk of Owens, and a WWE Championship match between the previous associates was made official for Saturday Night time’s Most important Occasion shortly thereafter.

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

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

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

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