WWE United States Championship History All Shows Include Television Air Dates All Title Matches Included, Non-Title Matches Ignored. ---. Vacant [38 Days] -. WWE Smack Down! General Manager, Stephanie McMahon orders an Eight Man Single Elimination Tournament For The Vacant WWE United States Championship, WWE Smack Down! 03.06.19 001. Eddie Guerrero (2) [84 Days] 0. d. Chris Benoit, WWE Vengeance 2003 03.07.27 Final Match Of An Eight Man Single Elimination Tournament For The Vacant WWE United States Championship. First Round Results, WWE Smack Down! 03.06.19 - WWE Smack Down! 03.07.10: "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit d. Rhyno, Matt Hardy d. Rikishi Phatu, Billy Gunn d. John Cena, Eddie Guerrero d. El Ultimo Dragon Second Round Results, WWE Smack Down! 03.07.17: "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit d. Matt Hardy, Eddie Guerrero d. Billy Gunn 1. d. Yoshihiro Tajiri, WWE Smack Down! 03.07.31 2. DQW Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 03.08.07 3. d. Chris Benoit, Rhyno, and Yoshihiro Tajiri, WWE SummerSlam 2003 03.08.24 Fatal Four Way Guerrero p. Rhyno 4. DQW John Cena, WWE Smack Down! 03.08.28 5. d. John Cena, WWE Smack Down! 03.09.11 Parking Lot Brawl 6. d. Charlie Haas, WWE Smack Down! 03.09.25 7. d. Matt Hardy, WWE Smack Down! 03.10.02 002. "The Big Show" Paul Wight (1) [147 Days] 0. d. Eddie Guerrero, WWE No Mercy 2003 03.10.19 1. d. Shannon Moore, WWE Smack Down! 03.12.04 2. d. Orlando Jordan, WWE Smack Down! 03.12.18 3. d. Billy Gunn, WWE Smack Down! 04.02.05 4. d. "Hardcore" Bob Holly, WWE Smack Down! 04.02.19 003. John Cena (1) [116 Days] 0. d. "The Big Show" Paul Wight, WWE WrestleMania XX 04.03.14 1. d. Rhyno, WWE Smack Down! 04.03.18 2. d. Danny Basham, WWE Smack Down! 04.04.08 3. d. Rene Dupree, WWE Judgment Day 2004 04.05.16 4. COL Rene Dupree, WWE Smack Down! 04.05.20 5. d. Rene Dupree, WWE Smack Down! 04.05.27 LumberJack Match. 6. d. Booker T., Rene Dupree, and Rob Van Dam, WWE The Great American Bash 2004 04.06.27 Four Corners Elimination Match. Order Of Elimination: Cena p. Van Dam, Booker p. Dupree, Cena p. Booker 7. DQW Booker T., WWE Smack Down! 04.07.08 ---. Vacant [21 Days] -. WWE Smack Down! General Manager, Kurt Angle, strips John Cena of the WWE United States Championship, WWE Smack Down! 04.07.08 -. WWE Smack Down! General Manager, Kurt Angle announces that Booker T. will be crowned the new WWE United States Champion the next week, WWE Smack Down! 04.07.22 004. Booker T. (2) [66 Days] 0. d. John Cena, Rene Dupree, Billy Gunn, Charlie Haas, Luther Reigns, Kenzo Suzuki, and Rob Van Dam, WWE Smack Down! 04.07.29 Eight Man Elimination Match For The Vacant WWE United States Championship. Elimination: Billy Gunn p. Charlie Haas, Luther Reigns p. Rene Dupree, John Cena DQW Kenzo Suzuki, Cena p. Gunn, Cena p. Reigns, Booker T. p. Cena, Booker T. p. Rob Van Dam to win the match and the vacant WWE United States Championship. 005. John Cena (2) [4 Days] 0. d. Booker T., Best Of Five Series, 3 Matches to 2 Matches Match #1: John Cena p. Booker T., WWE SummerSlam 2004 04.08.15 Match #2: Booker T. p. John Cena, WWE Smack Down! 04.08.26 Match #3: Booker T. p. John Cena, WWE Smack Down! 04.09.02 (Tape Aired From Austrailian House Show, 04.08.28) Match #4: John Cena p. Booker T., WWE Smack Down! 04.09.16 Match #5: John Cena p. Booker T., WWE No Mercy 2004 04.10.03 006. Carlito Caribbean Cool (1) [42 Days] 0. d. John Cena, WWE Smack Down! 04.10.07 1. d. Rey Misterio, Jr., WWE Smack Down! 04.10.14 007. John Cena (3) [105 Days] 0. d. Carlito Caribbean Cool, WWE Smack Down! 04.11.18 1. d. Jesus Aguilera, WWE Armgeddon 2004 04.12.12 Street Fight. 2. d. Rene Dupree, WWE Smack Down! 04.12.30 3. d. Kenzo Suzuki, WWE Smack Down! 05.01.13 4. d. Kenzo Suzuki, WWE Smack Down! 05.01.27 008. Orlando Jordan (1) [171 Days] 0. d. John Cena, WWE Smack Down! 05.03.03 1. d. Jon Heidenreich, WWE Judgment Day 2005 05.05.22 2. d. Mark Jindrak, WWE Velocity 05.05.28 3. d. "Hardcore" Bob Holly, WWE Velocity 05.06.11 4. d. "Hardcore" Bob Holly, WWE Smack Down! 05.06.16 5. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE The Great American Bash 2005 05.07.24 6. DQL "Hardcore" Bob Holly, WWE Velocity 05.08.06 009. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit (4) [61 Days] 0. d. Orlando Jordan, WWE SummerSlam 2005 05.08.21 1. d. Orlando Jordan, WWE Smack Down! 05.09.01 2. d. Orlando Jordan, WWE Smack Down! 05.09.09 3. d. Orlando Jordan, WWE Smack Down! 05.09.23 4. d. William Regal, WWE Velocity 05.10.01 (WWE.Com) 5. d. Booker T., Christian, and Orlando Jordan, WWE No Mercy 2005, 05.10.09 Fatal Four Way Match. Benoit d. Christian by Submission. 6. d. Orlando Jordan, WWE Smack Down! 05.10.14 010. Booker T. (3) [35 Days] 0. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 05.10.21 1. COL "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 05.11.04 2. DRAW "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 05.11.25 Match is ruled a draw when two different officials count the fall, one on Booker T. and one on Chris Benoit. ---. Vacant [49 Days] -. WWE Smack Down! General Manager, Theodore Long, vacates the WWE United States Championship due to a double pinfall in a match between Booker T. and "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 05.11.25 011. Booker T. (4) [37 Days] 0. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, Best Of Seven Series, 4 Matches to 3 Matches Match #1: Booker T. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Survivor Series 2005 05.11.27 Match #2: Booker T. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! Special 05.11.29 Match #3: Booker T. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 05.12.09 Match #4: "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit d. Booker T., WWE Armageddon 2005 05.12.18 Match #5: "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit DQW Randy Orton, WWE Smack Down! 05.12.30 Booker T. was injured and chose Randy Orton as his substitute. Match #6: "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit DQW Randy Orton, WWE Smack Down! 06.01.06 Booker T. was injured and chose Randy Orton as his substitute. Match #7: Randy Orton d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 06.01.13 Booker T. was injured and chose Randy Orton as his substitute. By winning, Orton wins the series and WWE United States Championship for Booker T. 1. d. Orlando Jordan, WWE Smack Down! 06.01.20 Booker T. was injured and chose Randy Orton as his substitute. Orton d. Jordan. 2. DQL "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 06.02.03 Booker T. was injured and chose Fit Finlay as his substitute. Benoit d. Finlay by DQ. 012. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit (5) [42 Days] 0. d. Booker T., WWE No Way Out 2006 06.02.19 013. John Bradshaw Layfield (1) [54 Days] 0. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE WrestleMania XXII 06.04.02 1. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Smack Down! 06.04.14 Steel Cage Match. 2. d. William Regal, WWE Smack Down! 06.04.28 014. Bobby Lashley (1) [49 Days] 0. d. John Bradshaw Layfield, WWE Smack Down! 06.05.26 1. d. King Booker T., WWE Smack Down! 06.06.30 Steel Cage Match. 015. Fit Finlay (1) [49 Days] 0. d. Bobby Lashley, WWE Smack Down! 06.07.14 1. DQL Bobby Lashley, WWE Smack Down! 06.07.21 2. d. William Regal, WWE The Great American Bash 2006 06.07.23 3. d. William Regal, WWE Smack Down! 06.07.28 4. DQL William Regal, WWE Smack Down! 06.08.04 5. DQL Bobby Lashley, WWE Smack Down! 06.08.18 016. Mr. Ken Kennedy (1) [42 Days] 0. d. Fit Finlay and Bobby Lashley, WWE Smack Down! 06.09.01 Triple Threat Match. Kennedy p. Lashley 017. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit (6) [219 Days] 0. d. Mr. Ken Kennedy, WWE Smack Down! 06.10.13 1. d. Chavo Guerrero, Jr., WWE Survivor Series 2006 06.11.26 2. d. Chavo Guerrero, Jr., WWE Armageddon 2006 06.12.17 3. DQW Chavo Guerrero, Jr., WWE Smack Down! 06.12.22 4. d. Chavo Guerrero, Jr., WWE Smack Down! 07.01.19 No Disqualification Match. 5. d. Fit Finlay, WWE Smack Down! 07.02.02 6. d. Montel Vontavious Porter, WWE WrestleMania XXIII 07.04.01 7. d. Montel Vontavious Porter, WWE Backlash 2007 07.04.29 018. Montel Vontavious Porter (1) [343 Days] 0. d. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, WWE Judgment Day 2007 07.05.20 Best Two Out Of Three Falls. Montel Vontavious Porter Wins 2 Falls to None. Falls: Montel Vontavious Porter p. "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, Porter p. Benoit 1. d. "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, WWE Vengeance 2007 07.06.24 2. d. Matt Hardy, WWE The Great American Bash 2007 07.07.22 3. DQL Kane, WWE Smack Down! 07.09.27 4. COL Kane, WWE Cyber Sunday 2007 07.10.28 Kane was the winner of a fan vote on WWE.com Fan Choices: The Great Khali (24%), "The World's Strongest Man" Mark Henry (9%), and Kane (67%) Montel Vontavious Porter was originally scheduled to wrestle Matt Hardy in either a Boxing Match, Mixed Martial Arts Match, or Wrestling Match for the WWE United States Championship. Earlier in the day, it was announced on WWE.com that Hardy would be unable to compete due to injury. 5. COL Rey Misterio, Jr., WWE Armageddon 2007 07.12.16 6. d. Dave Batista, WWE Smack Down! 08.03.14 No Holds Barred Match. 019. Matt Hardy (1) [84 Days] 0. d. Montel Vontavious Porter, WWE Backlash 2008 08.04.27 1. d. Montel Vontavious Porter, WWE Smack Down! 08.05.02 2. d. Chavo Guerrero, Jr., WWE Night Of Champions 2008 08.06.29 3. d. Shelton Benjamin, Chavo Guerrero, Jr., and Mr. Ken Kennedy, WWE Smack Down! 08.07.04 Fatal 4th of July Way. Matt Hardy p. Chavo Guerrero, Jr. 020. Shelton Benjamin (1) 0. d. Matt Hardy, WWE The1 Great American Bash 2008 08.07.20 1. v. ?, WWE SummerSlam 2008 08.08.17 2. v. ?, WWE Unforgiven 2008 08.09.07 3. v. ?, WWE No Mercy 2008 08.10.05 4. v. ?, WWE Cyber Sunday 2008 08.10.26 5. v. ?, WWE Survivor Servies 2008 08.11.23 6. v. ?, WWE Armageddon 2008 08.12.21 7. v. ?, WWE Royal Rumble 2009 09.01.29 8. v. ?, WWE No Way Out 2009 09.02.15 9. v. ?, WWE WrestleMania XXV 09.04.05