11) Owens Squashed GARY GANDY
This weeks episode of Smackdown Live featured the first ever, Kevin Owens – ‘Face of America’ Open Challenge….
His opponent? Gary Gandy aka a local enhancement talent. Owens made quick work of Gandy, hitting him with a pop-up powerbomb almost right away.
#PopupPowerbomb makes QUICK WORK of #GaryGandy as @FightOwensFight wins the first-ever #FaceOfAmerica Open Challenge! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/QVYcsdtunl
— WWE (@WWE) April 19, 2017
Tough one Gary.
12) The United States Title Is Being Elevated
The main event of Smackdown Live was a match between Baron Corbin and AJ Styles. United States Champion: Kevin Owens was on commentary.
WWE is slowly building up the prestige of the United States Title with it main-eventing Smackdown for the past 2 weeks. AJ Styles defeated Corbin via count-out to end the show.
A hard-fought count-out victory for The #Phenomenal @AJStylesOrg as he defeats @BaronCorbinWWE! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/pt2EKBJ3kK
— WWE (@WWE) April 19, 2017
The feud between Owens and AJ will do wonders for the U.S title. Would anyone be upset if KO vs AJ main evented over Randy vs Jinder? I can’t say that I would.
See Also: 16 things that we learned from RAW this week.
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