{"id":124993,"date":"2024-06-19T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=124993"},"modified":"2024-06-18T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T20:21:16","slug":"logan-pauls-days-wwe-united-states-champion-numbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/06\/19\/logan-pauls-days-wwe-united-states-champion-numbered\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Logan Paul&#8217;s Days As A WWE Champion Numbered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>US Champion: Missing In Action<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another WWE PLE has taken place without the WWE United States Champion. <em><strong>WWE Clash at the Castle 2024<\/strong><\/em> has come and gone, and the trip to Scotland was made without <strong>Logan Paul<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since winning the title at <em><strong>WWE Crown Jewel 2023<\/strong><\/em>, Paul has only defended it twice. After <strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong> and <strong>Gunther<\/strong> had their record-breaking title reigns ended at <em><strong>WWE WrestleMania 40<\/strong><\/em>, it seemed that the era of part-time champions was over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Paul remains a reminder of a bygone era. His lack of weekly presence on television has left <em><strong>SmackDown<\/strong><\/em> without a mid-card champion for over six months, with fans clamoring for a changing of the guard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thankfully, it seems as though the WWE United States Champion has his next opponent lined up.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>With Everybody Sayin&#8217;&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA Knight invades Logan Paul\u2019s home: SmackDown highlights, June 14, 2024\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B7F69i4gUHE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>LA Knight<\/strong> (Yeah!) has been antagonizing Paul over the past few weeks, with his most recent endeavor seeing him break into &#8220;The Maverick&#8221;s\u2019 home and having a dip in the pool. It appears as though the two are set to clash for the title sooner rather than later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the next PLE on the slate is <em><strong>WWE Money in the Bank 2024<\/strong><\/em>, WWE has an opportunity to let this story run a little longer, with <em><strong>WWE SummerSlam 2024<\/strong><\/em> taking place in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Full Circle<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Logan Paul refuses LA Knight&#039;s challenge: SmackDown highlight, June 7, 2024\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rnybpdrqw_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given WWE\u2019s recent reluctance to give hometown stars a win on their return (see <strong>Drew McIntyre<\/strong> at <em><strong>WWE Clash at the Castle 2022<\/strong><\/em>\u2026 and 2024), it would be irresponsible of us to assume that Paul will pick up a big win in Cleveland on August 3rd. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that in mind, <em>SummerSlam<\/em> would also be a fitting occasion for LA Knight to capture his first championship in WWE finally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One year ago, he won the Slim Jim Battle Royal at <em><strong>WWE SummerSlam 2023<\/strong><\/em> and it seemed to most that Knight was headed for the top.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Knight has been unsuccessful in his championship chases thus far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opportunity to bring his story full circle, one year on from his biggest WWE victory to date, is a tantalizing one. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s very likely that Paul\u2019s days as the US Champion are numbered, and LA Knight seems poised to be the man who puts the final nail in the coffin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018Megastar\u2019 deserves the chance to get some gold around his waist, and <em>SummerSlam<\/em> should be the spot to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Header photo \u2013\u00a0WWE\u00a0\u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Network<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Peacock<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Champion: Missing In Action Another WWE PLE has taken place without the WWE United States Champion. WWE Clash at the Castle 2024 has come and gone, and the trip to Scotland was made without Logan Paul. Since winning the title at WWE Crown Jewel 2023, Paul has only defended it twice. After Roman Reigns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5065,"featured_media":125018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2192,4,3],"tags":[7482,7612,60,6449],"class_list":["post-124993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-la-knight","tag-logan-paul","tag-wwe-summerslam","tag-wwe-united-states-championship"],"modified_by":"Chinyere Okafor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}