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Handicap WWE Championship Match: AJ Styles (c) vs Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
Zayn and Owens play mind games; tagging in and out so Styles can’t get comfortable with either man. Zayn rolls up Styles. Styles kicks out. Zayn tags is Owens. Styles goes behind Owens. Owens slams Styles to the mat. Styles pops up and takes Owens down with a head scissors. Styles stands between Owens and Zayn so they can’t tag each other. Owens goes outside, rolls back in the ring and tags in Zayn. Zayn stomps Styles in the corner. Zayn and Styles trade chops. Zayn tosses Styles high in the air with a back body drop. Zayn gets a near fall. Zayn brings Styles to his corner. Owens tags in and sends Styles into the turnbuckle hard. Ground and pound by Owens. Owens kicks Styles out of the ring. Owens sends Styles into the barricade. Owens tosses Styles back into the ring. Zayn tags in and stomps Styles. Zayn puts Styles in a rear chin lock. Styles gets to his feet but ends up back in Zayn’s corner. Owens is back in. Styles blast both Zayn and Owens with elbows. Styles goes up top but Owens pulls him into the electric chair position. Owens drops Styles into a facebuster for another near fall.
Owens misses a cannonball in the corner. Owens seems to have re-aggravated his ankle injury. Zayn tags in. Styles hurricanranas Zayn off the top. Zayn crawls to Owens to make the tag. Styles floors Owens with the Pelé kick. Zayn is back in. Styles hits the moonsault into a DDT. Owens monkey flips Styles into Zayn but Styles manages to turn it into a hurricanrana on Zayn. Styles puts Owens in the Calf Crusher. Owens almost taps but Zayn breaks it up. Styles hits Zayn with a flurry of strikes before tossing him out of the ring. Styles sends Owens shoulder first into the ring post. Zayn tags himself in and tries the blue thunder bomb. Styles counters but Owens superkicks him. Zayn hits the blue thunder bomb for a long two count. Zayn sits Styles on the top rope. Zayn tries a super plex. Styles dips under Zayn and drops him face first on the middle turnbuckle. Styles knocks Owens off the apron and hits the Phoenominal Forearm on Zayn. Owens breaks up the pin! Zayn and Styles trade strikes. Zayn leaps at Owens for a tag but Styles catches him in the air. Styles dumps Zayn over the top rope. Owens grabs Styles and tries to Pop Up Powerbomb Styles. Styles reverses into a roll-up for the win!
Winner and STILL WWE Champion, AJ Styles!
After the match, we see on the ‘Tron that Owens and Zayn never actually tagged each other. Zayn was still the legal man…
A phenomenal effort by a PHENOMENAL CHAMPION as @AJStylesOrg survives @FightOwensFight & @SamiZayn to retain his #WWEChampionship! #RoyalRumble pic.twitter.com/9TYB4DFsD6
— WWE (@WWE) January 29, 2018
