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#4 Reason why Rey Mysterio lost the US Championship

The WWE Universe was left in shock when the US Championship changed hands at a WWE Live event in Madison Square Garden on December 26th, as Andrade managed to capture the title from Rey Mysterio at the event.

Andrade had won a gauntlet match on RAW a few weeks back which had given him the opportunity to face Rey Mysterio for his US Championship. Here is what Dave Meltzer of WON stated as the reason for Andrade becoming Champion:

So the gist of the Andrade win, you can tell is to get that US title programme and Rey, they will be doing stuff with Rey, but in the long run, it’s Humberto Carrillo, who has got two wins over Andrade. And so, there is the whole thing with Andrade and Zelina in there with Carrillo. And then the main programme is going to be Seth and the AOP against Rey.

They want the main programme to be Rey, Samoa Joe, and Kevin Owens against Seth and the AOP. That may not be shot on Monday, although we’ve already sort of have shot it, you know they beat up Rey at the end, they had Joe there and Kevin Owens gets beat up by them every week anyway. So you can see it all tying together already.