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United States Champions with foreign backgrounds: photos
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% ]8 f: z# N+ OAntonio Cesaro seized the United States Championship at The 25th Anniversary of SummerSlam.
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$ V' r. i) U- UHowever, the Swiss-born Superstar is not the first foreign-born champion in the title's history.
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WWE Hall of Famer Edge
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5 x/ U# N0 S' ^6 v& mThe Canadian competitor held the United States Title for one week in 2001.5 K" F+ K) I% `
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: O4 u( v+ l6 V/ E# \) YThe Ghanaian Superstar claimed the championship gold twice, in 2009 and again in 2011.3 J( i9 T' p) f2 k2 e
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& ]/ M/ `' e. p) I"The Russian Nightmare" beat Magnum T.A. in a best-of-seven series to win the title in 1986.
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& ^: z& \2 L! M# i: a. k5 ~0 F4 c" I4 LThe grappler from Glascow, Scotland went nearly 16 years between his second and third U.S. Title reigns.4 }- n! N+ E, p3 R# A- @
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The Great White relied upon the luck of his Irish heritage to win the U.S. Title in 2011.
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0 P0 s1 \+ D; u5 b( }# n# dThe Excellence of Execution's five reigns represent the most by a foreign-born U.S. Champion.
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' `, q- j3 `8 I1 [4 `# B6 b; }) NThe Japanese grappler became the first to win the championship gold outside of the United States.
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2 s& \% g! F2 Y* m( ~6 jIn September 2001, Tajiri became the second competitor from Japan to claim the coveted title.( j: S' S& S' a" z/ L) Q, c
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John Cena's second reign came to a halt in 2004 courtesy of The Caribbean Bad Apple.
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Ireland claimed its first U.S. Title holder when The Belfast Bruiser won it in 2006.1 T3 y1 ^ Q& Y7 N
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WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka
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