{"id":120048,"date":"2025-08-30T04:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120048\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:46:04","slug":"sami-zayn-captures-wwe-united-states-championship-on-smackdown-post-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120048\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami Zayn captures WWE United States Championship on Smackdown – POST Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nImage Credit: WWE<\/p>\n

For the first time ever, Sami Zayn can call himself the WWE United States Champion.<\/p>\n

Zayn captured the singles title on this week\u2019s episode of Friday Night Smackdown,<\/a> dethroning Solo Sikoa in a 12-minute main event matchup in front of a crowd at the LDLC Arena in Lyon, France.<\/p>\n

After escaping a Samoan Spike, Zayn was able to deliver back-to-back Helluva Kicks to Sikoa, earning him a successful pinfall victory. While usually Sikoa\u2019s MFT helpers would be at ringside to prevent a clean finish of this nature, a run-in earlier in the match by Jimmy Uso and Jacob Fatu was able to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n

Zayn earned a title shot against Sikoa by beating him clean a few weeks back when Smackdown was in Montreal.<\/p>\n

The recent win marks the start of Zayn\u2019s first title reign since August 2024, when his fourth-ever run with the Intercontinental title wrapped up.<\/p>\n

Sikoa had held the U.S. title since June, when he overcame Jacob Fatu at Night of Champions. He defended the title twice in the weeks that followed, beating Fatu in a steel cage rematch and overcoming Jimmy Uso. Now, with the help of those two, his reign has come to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Credit: WWE For the first time ever, Sami Zayn can call himself the WWE United States Champion.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,6020,6018,3,60133,4797,6017,21,19,22,20,25,24,4366],"class_list":{"0":"post-120048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jacob-fatu","10":"tag-jimmy-uso","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sami-zayn","13":"tag-smackdown","14":"tag-solo-sikoa","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-wwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}