WWE US Champion : 5 Reasons why Samoa Joe became the new Champion

#4 R-Truth was obviously a transitional US Champion

He's tired, and exhausted, but @RonKillings is going to make his childhood hero @JohnCena proud in tonight's #USOpenChallenge! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/WSy19M9XmY

— WWE (@WWE) March 6, 2019

Once again, this is not a knock on R-Truth per se. But in a company filled with younger WWE superstar, it is odd when a 47-year-old man holds the US Championship. While him winning the US Championship got a nice pop, very little happened during his reign ever since.

WWE decided to put R-Truth in the match after Nia Jax took the Number 30 spot in the Men's Royal Rumble. It was clearly a reward for doing the job to her and WWE had no long term plans for R-Truth or the United States Championship. And thus Samoa Joe winning the Championship makes all the more sense.

Samoa Joe can mix it up with the stacked mid-card of SmackDown Live, and help elevates the likes of Andrade and even Rowan as a singles competitor. As much as I hate to say it, he'll be a better representative for the Championship than R-Truth was.