United States Championship (Wrestling Era)

The United States Championship is the secondary Championship on the Smackdown brand. The current United States Champion is Roman Reigns, who defeated AJ Styles at the Summerslam PPV in August Week 4.
=== History ===
In July 2003, the title was activated by SmackDown General Manager, Stephanie McMahon, and was commissioned to be a secondary championship to the SmackDown brand (WWE claims it to be a reactivation of the old NWA/WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, but for all intents and purposes, it is a separate championship with its own history). Eddie Guerrero became the first champion through a tournament in the finals at Vengeance 2003 vs Chris Benoit. This was done shortly after the WWE Intercontinental Championship was recommissioned by the Raw brand, making the title its equal counterpart. The title remained on SmackDown until April 13, 2009, when reigning champion Montel Vontavious Porter was drafted from SmackDown over to Raw during the 2009 WWE Draft, moving the title with him. On April 26, 2011, reigning champion Sheamus was drafted to SmackDown during the 2011 WWE Draft, briefly bringing the U.S. Title back to the show. Five days later, Raw's Kofi Kingston defeated Sheamus for the title at Extreme Rules, returning it to Raw. Since August 29, 2011, when all WWE programming became "Supershows" featuring the entire roster, the U.S. Title has been defended on both Raw and SmackDown.
In the beginning of The Wrestling Era, AJ Styles held the United States Championship. Roman Reigns won the United States Championship at the Summerslam PPV in August Week 4. The title was defended in a 6-man tag team match between Bullet Club (AJ Styles, Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows) and The Shield (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose) where both the United States Championship, and the Smackdown Tag Team Championships were both on the line.
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