United States Championship Match: AJ Styles (c) vs Kevin Owens
Owens takes Styles down with a shoulder block. Styles responds with an arm drag. Owens rolls to the outside. Owens pulls Styles’ leg to send him to the mat. Styles takes Owens over with pop-up head scissors. Owens goes outside again. Owens gets back in the ring and Styles tries to German suplex him. Owens fights it off. Owens hits the ropes and eats a high dropkick by Styles. Owens rolls outside yet again. Styles follows. Styles slams Owens into the commentary desk. Styles whips Owens’ into the barricade. Styles tries a running splash but Owens moves out of the way. Owens tosses Styles crotch first into the ring post. Owens rolls Styles back in the ring. Running senton by Owens for a near fall. Owens locks in a rear chin lock.
Owens tries another senton. Styles gets his knees up. Styles fires up and lands a few strikes. Styles tries a spinning back fist. Owens ducks and DDTs Styles. Owens goes right back to the rear chin lock. Styles breaks free after a flurry, floors Owens with a stiff clothesline. Basement forearm by Styles. Running corner clothesline by Styles. Styles tries the face plant but can’t get Owens up Owens misses a clothesline, which allows Styles to hit the face plant. Styles and Owens trade waist locks. Ushigoroshi by Styles for a near fall. Styles goes for the springboard 450 but Owens’ gets his knees up! Styles kicks out. Owens flattens Styles with the corner cannonball. Styles manages to kick out. Owens is livid.
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