5 reasons why AJ Styles lost the US title at WWE Hell in a Cell 2017

#5 Jinder Mahal was being overshadowed

Jinder Mahal has been WWE champion since May 2017

Jinder Mahal has had to do a lot of convincing to prove he’s a believable WWE champion, and it hasn’t helped that the two holders of SmackDown’s secondary title during his reign have been Kevin Owens and AJ Styles.

KO and AJ are Superstars whose rivalries should be main-eventing PPVs, never mind weekly SmackDown shows, and their feud this year - first with each other and then with Shane McMahon - has been overshadowing Jinder’s storylines.

The WWE Championship will always be the main title on whatever show it’s on, but it didn’t feel that way when a Superstar the calibre of AJ was holding the US Championship.

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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