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#2 AJ Styles is too good for the US title
When John Cena was United States Champion and he issued open challenges every week, it was great. He was a former World Champion but it made sense for him to hold a lesser title at that stage, with the task of elevating younger talents.
When Chris Jericho, another former World Champion, won the US Championship from Roman Reigns, it made sense because that was the one title that had evaded Y2J his entire career.
When Kevin Owens, formerly the Universal Champion, won the title from Jericho at WrestleMania, it began a summer-long storyline with him proudly boasting in promos and on social media that he was “The New Face of America”.
Perhaps it’s just me but, unlike those three examples of former World Champions going on to hold a lesser title, did AJ not seem too big at this stage of his career to be holding the US Championship?
His four-month run with the WWE title felt like it could have lasted a lot longer, and this two-and-a-half month stint as US champ was never going to be anything more than a stop-gap on his way to returning to the main-event WWE title picture.
