It’s the most wonderful Rusev Day of the year, as the Bulgarian Brute finally defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the WWE United States Championship in the SmackDown Live Main Event.
These two men are giving THEIR ALL as @RusevBUL & @ShinsukeN battle over the #USTitle on #SDLive! @LanaWWE pic.twitter.com/kZnBiq7kXG
— WWE (@WWE) December 26, 2018
Nakamura has had a steady reign as United States Champion since winning the title from Jeff Hardy at SummerSlam, but has pick and chose his defenses wisely. The moment he came across actual competition, it was either in non-title defenses or he would attack them beforehand, which brings in Rusev. Rusev had chased him for weeks for attempting to regain his title opportunity.
RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY! RUSEV DAY!
@RusevBUL is your NEWWWWW #USChampion on #SDLive! pic.twitter.com/ExKh7mxBaT
— WWE (@WWE) December 26, 2018
He would finally get it on the Christmas edition of SmackDown Live, where he managed to close out “The Year of Rusev” with a third United States title reign.
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