WWE SmackDown Live Winners and Losers: Sami Zayn Gets A Huge Victory

Loser: Baron Corbin

What’s the worst possible way to follow up a big week of winning your first championship and then successfully defending it? Baron Corbin took a shot at figuring that out on SmackDown this week.

Last week, The Lone Wolf became United States Champion at Hell in a Cell by pinning Tye Dillinger in a triple threat match. To follow up, Corbin then defeated AJ Styles – the former champ who had not been beaten – on SmackDown, making his reign start off more legitimately. Corbin addressed the crowd after the match to announce he was here to stay as champ.

This week, Corbin again addressed the crowd. He has allegedly permanently closed the open challenge for the US Title. That was the precursor to a match against SIn Cara, who’s been absent from television for some time (hey wasn’t he in the cruiserweight division for a while?).

And Corbin, being the self-centered type, didn’t really take the match seriously. I mean, he has a point, but still – Sin Cara is a former, uh, NXT Tag Team Champion, after all. Because Corbin wasn’t fully invested in the match, he ended up losing – albeit via count out.

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It doesn’t matter who your opponent is – in WWE, you have to take a march seriously. Look no further than the fact that the guy from 3MB who once played a recorder to distract a cobra is the WWE Champion. Hopefully Corbin learned that lesson, and he’ll be out for revenge next week.