Change Made to “Wrestlemania” Title Match

There’s always room for one more. The United States Title has changed course quite a bit in recent months. After Dolph Ziggler vacated the title, Bobby Roode won it in a tournament. Then it was Randy Orton taking the title from him, leaving us with a rematch at “Wrestlemania XXXIV”. Things have changed again.

Tensions seem to be rather high.

Randy Orton, Bobby Roode and Jinder Mahal come face-to-face: SmackDown LIVE, March 20, 2018

This week on “Smackdown Live”, it was announced that the match was now a triple threat match with Jinder Mahal also involved. Mahal has attacked both Orton and Roode in recent weeks and was added to the match before this week’s show went on the air. Mahal has never been United States Champion.

You can read this week’s results here.

Opinion: Why do we need to do this? Mahal adds very little to the match and is seemingly there just to get him on the show. I wasn’t impressed with Mahal during his title reign and I really don’t need to see him in this match. The match being a regular rematch for the title after last month’s “Fastlane 2018” would have been just fine, but why go with fine when you can have a triple threat?

They’ve been getting physical as of late.

Randy Orton vs. Jinder Mahal: SmackDown LIVE, March 6, 2018

Who do you think wins the title match? Should Mahal have been added? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 26 wrestling books. His latest book is the History of the WWE Championship.

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