Watch: AJ Styles Wins US Title at WWE Live Event in MSG

AJ Styles wins U.S. Title at WWE Live Event at Madison Square Garden: Exclusive, July 7, 2017

On Friday, WWE had a co-branded live event at Madison Square Garden in New York, where AJ Styles defeated Kevin Owens to become the new United States Champion. Of course, as you can see, you can check out the title win in the video above.

WWE also put out a video, which you can see below, where Styles talks about winning the title at MSG, and whether or not Kevin Owens deserves a rematch.

AJ Styles wonders if Kevin Owens deserves a U.S. Title rematch: Exclusive, July 7, 2017

WWE typically doesn’t change titles at live events anymore, and whenever they do, there are always people who questioning their reason for doing so, and that’s no different in this case.

On Saturday’s Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer speculated about why WWE decided to change the US Title at a non-televised event.

“Yeah, this was a late decision. I don’t know the story behind it, but I’m certain there is a story behind it. But, what it is, I don’t know as we’re speaking right now. Obviously they didn’t do that battle royal to build up something that was going to happen right away. And also this was a Raw house show, so they had a SmackDown match on a Raw house show. It was a clean pin, I heard they had a very good match, and as far as the reason, that I don’t know. If it’s an injury to Owens, I mean, it could be an injury to Owens I suppose. I know he was hurt at the pay-per-view, but he’s worked since the pay-per-view. But, sometimes you get hurt, you work through it for a while and you realize that it’s a lot worse than you think. So, I don’t know more than that.”