MVP Challenges Apollo Crews for the United States Championship at SummerSlam

MVP Challenges Apollo Crews for the United States Championship at SummerSlam. The two opened RAW with a title match.

WWE RAW opened with the return of Apollo Crews. The United States Champion took on MVP for the WWE United States Championship after missing out on several weeks of WWE TV including their scheduled encounter at Extreme Rules.

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MVP claimed to be the real United States Champion before the match however, his claims to the title ended after the match when Crews hit the sit-out powerbomb on him for the win. The challenger however, did not accept his defeat and blamed it on the ‘unsafe working conditions’.

MVP Challenges Apollo Crews for the United States Championship at SummerSlam

The lights in the performance centre dropped before the match and continued to do so periodically through the match. The announce team blamed the issues on the weather but MVP cared very little for their excuses or for Crews’ wife and kids for that matter.

MVP went on a rant after the match about how he was distracted and asked Crews if this is how he wanted to win the match. He then demanded a rematch for the United States Championship before adding ‘at SummerSlam’, after Shelton Benjamin whispered in his ear.

Backstage Crews told the interviewer that he had to stay at home and watch MVP pretend to be champion while his kids asked him if he was still the champion. He then revealed that he was going to give the old version of the title to his children and thanked MVP for getting the new title for him.

Apollo Crews has since accepted the challenge making it official for SummerSlam.

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