LA Knight crowned new United States Champion at WWE SummerSlam

LA Knight is the United States Champion.

Knight defeated Logan Paul to win the United States Championship on Saturday’s SummerSlam. The finish of the match had Paul’s lackeys being taken out by Knight. However, Paul still managed to get the brass knuckles from MGK, who was at ringside. Paul managed to strike Knight with the knuckles, but Knight recovered quickly to hit the BFT on Paul for the win.

Paul had been United States Champion for 273 days, defeating Rey Mysterio last November at Crown Jewel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Knight had spent the last several months lobbying for a US title match, pinning Paul in a Money in the Bank qualifying match. At one point he even appeared at Paul’s house in Puerto Rico. Paul eventually signed a contract for the match at SummerSlam in his home state of Ohio.

Before their match, Knight arrived in the Prime Energy truck he had stole a day prior on SmackDown and smashed one of the windows in.