WWE Rumors: US Title Most Likely To Change Hands?

On Sunday Dec. 17, WWE SmackDown Live will present the Clash of Champions pay per view in Boston, and it sounds like fans shouldn’t expect many title changes.

Clash of Champions is the final pay per view of 2017, and there won’t be another pay per view for either brand until late January when the Royal Rumble takes place. The WWE Championship, SmackDown Women’s Championship, United States Championship, and SmackDown Tag Team Championships will be on the line at TD Garden.

According to Cageside Seats’s Rumor Roundup, the United States Championship is the most likely of the titles to change hands on Sunday, but the site adds that there might not even be a title change at the pay per view.

It’s hard to see Charlotte Flair’s reign as champion ending so quickly, barring a cash-in from Carmella, because it seems like there’s more fuel to this feud between her and Ruby Riott. Meanwhile, taking the tag team championships off of The Usos would be unwise, since they are the best thing going in the tag division. And don’t even get me started on the WWE Championship, because Jinder Mahal already had his time in the spotlight (he should be moved to the US Title picture, if anything).

Meanwhile, the United States Championship has been held by Baron Corbin ever since Hell in a Cell, and his program with Bobby Roode is his first real feud. That said, the WWE either doesn’t have faith in Corbin and Roode, or they feel like they need Dolph Ziggler to protect the two of them. Because without any warning, the WWE made this match a Triple Threat with Ziggler involved, and there’s been little done to build this match up properly.

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This Triple Threat match for the US Championship is anybody’s game, and while the smart money would be on Corbin to retain, the WWE could decide to throw Ziggler a bone here. Or, more likely, the WWE could elect to put the title on Roode, who checks off all the boxes in terms of what the company looks for in a mid-card champion.