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Losers: Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev
Rusev lost the United States Championship on his first defense after a month. Shinsuke Nakamura gained it back to lose it to R-Truth two days later. R-Truth. In 2019.
Then Rusev randomly turned heel, because WWE seems adamantly against having popular male babyfaces.
Then the two former rivals looked like they formed a tag team, two days after Nakamura caused a kayfabe injury to Rusev's wife.
It's bizarre. That's the only way to describe it. It feels more like Raw booking than SmackDown booking. And this went on far too long, taking too much time from other things that could have potentially been on the show.
If R-Truth is a transitional champion to drop it to Andrade "Cien" Almas, that would be the proper outcome, but it really made SmackDown's mid-card look horrible. This was a black hole in the middle of SmackDown that detracted from the show.
