After Dodger Stadium tackle cuts marriage proposal short, couple is all smiles
- April 4, 2023
Ricardo Juarez and Stephani Ramona Gutierrez decided to tag along with friends to the Dodgers’ Opening Day game Thursday, March 30.
But Juarez, who lives in Riverside, didn’t just take his Mookie Betts jersey and Dodgers cap.
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The 35-year-old sushi chef at Oishii Sushi & Teriyaki in Moreno Valley also took an engagement ring. He planned to propose to then-girlfriend Gutierrez, 33, who uses the name Ramona Saavedra on social media.
But what Juarez thought would be a proposal shown on the jumbotron ended with him being tackled by security guards on the field — and with him as the star of a viral video.
“I wanted it to be special,” Juarez said Monday, April 3. “I didn’t want to be simple.”
During the seventh-inning stretch of the Dodgers game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Juarez decided to run onto the field from their seats in the left-field pavilion, fall to one knee and propose to Gutierrez, who was in the stands. But a Dodger Stadium security guard sped toward him, tackled him to the ground and handcuffed him. Juarez was escorted off the field as the crowd cheered him on.
Proposal gone wrong at Dodger Stadium pic.twitter.com/qankLwE5sW
— maze (@Mazeaveli) March 31, 2023
Juarez bought the ring two weeks ago and planned something special to show his love for Gutierrez.
“I just wanted to go the baseball game and come out on screen,” he said. “I never imagined it being this big.”
Gutierrez, who lives in Beaumont, said Juarez was extremely excited but he “jumped the gun” with his spur-of-the-moment decision to propose from the field instead of in the stands.
“I was coming back from the bathroom,” Gutierrez said. “I almost missed the whole thing.”
Though Gutierrez, a respiratory student at American Career College in Ontario, said yes to Juarez, there were consequences to his bravery.
“They gave him a citation, they gave him the ring back and they banned him for a year,” she said.
After the tackle, Juarez went to Riverside University Health System Medical Center in Moreno Valley and got a shot for his pain, Gutierrez said.
Juarez said his spine and neck hurt after the tackle, which sent his Dodgers cap and the ring flying. Doctors told Juarez it was normal to feel pain after the impact of such a hit.
A Los Angeles Dodgers spokesperson declined to comment on the incident Friday, March 31.
The couple met when a mutual friend introduced them at Lake Perris about three years ago. They started going on hikes at Mount Rubidoux in Riverside and hit if off, Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez and Juarez have a child, 1, together and Gutierrez has three from two previous relationships.
Planning for the wedding wasn’t the first thing on Gutierrez’s mind when he proposed.
“I was so shocked,” Gutierrez said. “And I was scared. I thought he was gonna go to jail and I thought I wasn’t going to see him anymore.”
While being interviewed on a Spanish-language radio show, “El Show de Piolín” on 107.1 FM, hosted by Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, pushed the couple to set a wedding date and created a GoFundMe page to help pay for the nuptials. As of Monday evening, $583 of the $20,000 goal had been raised.
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Though the couple was apprehensive about a fundraiser, Gutierrez said, “let’s just do it and see what happens.”
As for the wedding, “we’re shooting for Aug. 5,” she said.
So what happened after Juarez was released?
Juarez was dropped off by security on Sunset Boulevard, near a stadium entrance. Still, he had one more trick up his sleeve.
“He gets on one knee and he proposes again, as soon as I see him,” she said.
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While California lifts mask, vaccine mandates, some restrictions will endure in LA County
- April 4, 2023
As the state officially eased many COVID-era masking rules on Monday, April 3, Los Angeles County will retain its vaccine requirement and mask mandate for all health workers when they are around patients. Visitors and patients, however, will no longer be required to wear a mask.
The county’s rules are more restrictive than other parts of the state. The California Department of Public Health ended the statewide mask requirements in healthcare and other indoor high-risk settings — including correctional facilities and emergency and homeless shelters.
It’s unclear how long the tougher guidelines will be in place locally, but county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer has said they will be reassessed in September, if not sooner.
Many other restrictions have gone away in the county, however. Local leaders have already aligned with the state’s five-day isolation and quarantine recommendations. And workers in correctional roles, detention facilities and adult day care centers are no longer be required to be vaccinated.
“Our communities did a lot of the hard work by getting vaccinated and boosted, staying home and testing when sick, requesting treatments when positive, and masking to slow the spread,” said CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón. “With these critical actions, and a lot of patience and persistence, we have now reached a point where we can update some of the COVID-19 guidance to continue to balance prevention and adapting to living with COVID-19.”
As rules ease, monitoring of the virus will continue. County officials will continue to require schools, employers and hospitals and clinics to record COVID numbers and report outbreaks.
“This is when we take the training wheels off, ” said Dr. Kimberly A. Shriner, infectious disease expert at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena. “We have to learn to live with COVID19 … There are things that we’ve sort of trained the public to do now, hopefully, that ingrained in them to do the right thing when they sense that there’s a risk.”
That said, Shriner added that the timing of the mandate release is not ideal. Masking is a vital first defense from infection, especially in healthcare settings. Because the vaccine does not completely prevent infection, and the possibility of new variants are ever present, them the outcome — if people choose not to wear a mask — is the higher possibility of an uptick in infection rates.
“It’s very hard to measure what’s happening out in the community until you start seeing sick people and, by that time, the horses out of the barn,” Shriner said. “That’s what they’re gonna do — they’re using hospitals, hospital admissions, hospital evaluations as sort of the canaries in the coal mine.”
By default, this all means that as mandates lift and masking becomes a thing of the past, immunocompromised and disabled populations are left to further isolate and ramp up their personal protections.
Along with the mandate lifts, the state will “wind down” other COVID initiatives such as state-funded testing and test-to-treat sites, vaccine staff, outbreak response teams, mobile vaccine units and pop-up vaccination events.
Other impacts to public health programs and initiatives include:
Reduced state support for local contact tracing efforts.
Fewer staffing flexibilities for hospitals and nursing homes.
End of reduced training and certification requirements for certified nursing assistants and home health aides.
Ending the expedited license processing for facilities performing COVID-19 tests.
In a late 2021 report, the National Council of Disabilities People said that disabilities and chronic conditions who were at particularly high risk of infection with, or severe consequences from the virus, were not recognized as a priority population by many states when vaccines received emergency use authorization. It found that roughly one-third of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths were at facilities that house seniors with disabilities and people with disabilities aged 31-64.
There are still risks for “healthy” populations.
At least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have long COVID, a multisystemic chronic health condition experienced people who were infected with SARS-CoV-2. The condition is disabling, can last for years and has no known cure or treatment. Repeat infections put people at increased risk of Long COVID. The condition can lead to concurrent diagnoses like myalgic encephalomyelitis, dysautonomia, cardiovascular disease along with many others.
Marginalized people living with “Long COVID” and its concurrent diagnoses face heightened medical bias and financial hardships.
Shriner, who is also director of Huntington Hospital’s Long COVID Recovery Clinic, said that the risk of getting Long COVID if the patient stays up-to-date on vaccinations. Through it’s research, the clinic identified markers in patients blood that confirmed their claims of Long COVID symptomology. The finds were surprising for Shriner, who shared that upon early opening of the clinic she was unsure how many patients would truly have Long COVID.
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“I thought we may have a lot of folks that sort of think they have it and they don’t really have it. They’ve all had it. They have the symptoms … their stuff is abnormal. So I think that it’s real, and it’s important and debilitating disease,” she said.
Because the disease is only newly researched, experts are still working to find treatments that will relieve patients suffering and allow them to return to normality.
Shriner added that to avoid infection, people must consider masking if they are high risk or are entering a high risk scenario and to maintain regular COVID vaccinations.
“We need to be very careful,” Shriner said. “The next six to eight weeks will be critical as people really start not using their masks, and there’s less testing. If a new variant emerges, you want to try to catch it before everybody’s coming into the emergency room with it.”
To read the CDPH update, visit www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR23-014.aspx. For Los Angeles COVID resources, visit www.publichealth.lacounty.gov.
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CIF-SS girls lacrosse polls, April 3
- April 4, 2023
CIF-SS GIRLS LACROSSE POLL
(Selected by the Girls Lacrosse Committee)
DIVISION 1/2
1. Foothill
2. Marlborough
3. Mira Costa
4. Redondo Union
5. Edison
6. St. Margaret’s
7. San Clemente
8. Oak Park
9. Murrieta Mesa
10. Palos Verdes
Others: Newport Harbor, Newbury Park, Santiago/C, Mater Dei, San Juan Hills
DIVISION 3
1. Huntington Beach
2. Chaparral
3. Simi Valley
4. Portola
5. Northwood
6. Santa Monica
7. Orange Lutheran
8. San Marcos
9. El Toro
10. Murrieta Valley
Others: Rosary, Notre Dame/SO, ML King, Temecula Valley, Downey
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Check out our OC photographers’ favorite images from March 2023
- April 4, 2023
We asked our photographers to pick their favorite moments from March 2023, and here are some they selected.
The rain continued to make Orange County soggy throughout most of March.
The water-logged hills slide out from under buildings in San Clemente which prompted the evacuation of apartments on the bluff due to the danger of the structures tumbling down the hillside.
The atmospheric rivers that gave us all the rain also provided a beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains, but, up at the high elevations all that snow caused Crestline to lose its only grocery store and people to be trapped in their homes for days.
Along with the water falling from the sky, more than 60 Orange County schools came together to learn about water issues and conservation during the Children’s Water Education Festival at UC Irvine. The Angels kicked off their season against the Dodgers and took two of three games from the cross-town rivals.
Over in Costa Mesa, the American Ballet Theatre’s “Like Water for Chocolate,” based on the best selling novel and film, thrilled audiences at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
Along the county’s beaches, Laylan Connelly, the Register’s long-time beach reporter got the news she will be inducted into the Surfing Hall of Fame later this year.
In Anaheim, it was all fun and games as Disney opened a “reimagined” Toontown and costumed cosplayers streamed into WonderCon.
Stay dry and stay healthy, and check out the photos and follow The Orange County Register on Facebook and Instagram. Here are our staff photographers’ individual pages: Paul Bersebach, Jeff Gritchen, Leonard Ortiz, Mark Rightmire, and Mindy Schauer.
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Veto stands: Transgender pronouns OK in N. Dakota schools
- April 4, 2023
By Trisha Ahmed | Associated Press/Report for America
Teachers in North Dakota can still refer to transgender students by the personal pronouns they use, after lawmakers on Monday failed to override the governor’s veto of a controversial bill to place restrictions on educators.
House lawmakers fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to block the veto, days after Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s office announced the veto and the Senate overrode it.
The bill would have prohibited public school teachers and employees from acknowledging the personal pronouns a transgender student uses, unless they received permission from the student’s parents as well as a school administrator. It would have also prohibited government agencies from requiring employees to acknowledge the pronouns a transgender colleagues uses.
Republican lawmakers across the U.S. have drafted hundreds of laws this year to push back on LGBTQ+ freedoms, particularly seeking to regulate aspects of transgender people’s lives including gender-affirming health care, bathroom use, athletics and drag performances.
“Ask yourself, does Senate Bill 2231 treat others the way you would want to be treated?” Democratic Rep. Emily O’Brien of Grand Forks said on the House floor, adding that overriding the veto would perpetuate “discrimination, hatred or prejudice.”
Republican Rep. SuAnn Olson of Baldwin said the bill protects freedom of speech for teachers and keeps “inappropriate” topics out of the classroom.
North Dakota will consider other bills this session about transgender students, she said.
Olson said that if lawmakers “are firm on this bill, on girls’ athletics, on separate bathrooms, we will strengthen public schools.” But allowing what she called an “emphasis on sexuality” in schools would cause students and teachers to abandon the public education system.
State representatives voted 56-36 to override the governor’s veto, but 63 votes were required.
All 12 Democrats in the House voted against the bill, as did 24 Republicans. One was Rep. Eric Murphy, of Grand Forks, an associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of North Dakota.
“I’m tired of these bills. I’m tired of both sides,” Murphy said on the House floor. “If a student wants to be called a different pronoun, does that really matter? Is this earth-shattering?”
In a letter to state lawmakers announcing his veto, the governor said, “The teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police.” The First Amendment already protects teachers from speaking contrary to their beliefs, and existing law protects the free speech rights of state employees, Burgum added.
Lawmakers who supported the bill have said in debates that it would free teachers from worrying about how to address each student and create a better learning environment.
Opponents said the bill targets transgender students who already have disproportionately high risks of suicide.
In 2021, Burgum vetoed a bill that would have barred transgender girls from playing on girls’ teams in public schools. Lawmakers didn’t override that veto, but they’re considering new legislation this session to replicate and expand that bill — including at the college level.
Last week, President Joe Biden denounced what he called hundreds of hateful and extreme state laws that target transgender kids and their families.
“The bullying, discrimination, and political attacks that trans kids face have exacerbated our national mental health crisis,” Biden said. “These attacks are un-American and must end.”
Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Trisha Ahmed on Twitter: @TrishaAhmed15
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Orange County scores and player stats for Monday, April 3
- April 4, 2023
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MONDAY’S SCORES
BASEBALL
NATIONAL CLASSIC
Villa Park 12, Jordan (UT) 1
Cypress 6, Liberty (AZ) 2
Foothill 13, Damien 6
RYAN LEMMON TOURNAMENT
San Clemente 3, Corner Canyon (UT) 1
Centennial/Corona 5, University 2
San Juan Hills 12, Segerstrom 3
Bountiful (UT) 2, Portola 0
Mission Viejo 3, Northwood 1
Trabuco Hills 6, Northview 4
Yorba Linda 6, Irvine 1
El Toro 7, Davis (UT) 6
Ayala 3, Brea Olinda 1
Yorba Linda 3, Northwood 0
Woodbridge 13, Esperanza 5
SANTA ANA ELKS / CENTURY TOURNAMENT
Covina 10, Godinez 3
West Covina 15, Valencia 5
SOFTBALL
SUNSET LEAGUE
Edison 8, Newport Harbor 0
Los Alamitos 8, Fountain Valley 1
EMPIRE LEAGUE
Cypress 15, Valencia 0
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CIF-SS boys lacrosse polls, April 3
- April 4, 2023
CIF-SS BOYS LACROSSE POLL
(Selected by the Boys Lacrosse Committee)
DIVISION 1/2
1. Mater Dei
2. Loyola
3. Foothill
4. St. Margaret’s
5. Mira Costa
6. Westlake
7. Santa Margarita
8. Agoura
9. Trabuco Hills
10, Corona del Mar
Others: None
DIVISION 3
1. Santa Monica
2. Chaminade
3. Crean Lutheran
4. Canyon
5. ML King
6. University
7. Village Christian
8. El Segundo
9. El Dorado
10. Dos Pueblos
Others: None
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WWE begins new Endeavor after merger with UFC amid record-setting WrestleMania weekend in Inglewood
- April 4, 2023
INGLEWOOD — While a multi-billion-dollar deal for the future of the company was being quietly brokered backstage, the WWE provided waves of over-the-top action that spurred eight hours of boisterous emotions for the 161,892 fans throughout the two-night WrestleMania 39 event over the weekend at SoFi Stadium.
WrestleMania is the company’s biggest event of the year — essentially the Super Bowl for this brand og sports entertainment — and results in the conclusion of several of its top scripted storylines.
But this year’s event — which WWE officials on Monday said shattered company records for attendance, revenue, sponsorships, charitable contributions and social-media activity — marked the start of a new chapter in the company’s history, not in the arena but in the boardroom.
The company made headlines for months on the business pages, with news of then-embattled WWE founder Vince McMahon’s abrupt but short-lived retirement — spurred by reports that he paid more than $12 million in hush money to women in hopes of keeping them quiet about alleged sexual misconduct — and eventual return as executive chairman in January.
McMahon returned, he said, to orchestrate discussions of the WWE being available for purchase. His asking price: $9 billion.
INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 02: (L-R) Brock Lesnar wrestles Omos during WrestleMania Goes Hollywood at SoFi Stadium on April 02, 2023 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
A deal appeared to emerge over Wrestlemania weekend, Endeavor, parent company of the UFC cage-fighting dynasty, reportedly signed an agreement to merge with the WWE.
“Together, we will be a $21+ billion live sports and entertainment powerhouse with a collective fanbase of more than a billion people and an exciting growth opportunity,” McMahon said in a statement Monday.
McMahon and Ari Emanuel, CEO of the American mixed martial arts promotion, sat down for an interview with CNBC on Monday morning to confirm the pact.
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“We’ve known each other for 23 years,” Emanuel said of his relationship with McMahon during the interview. “There’s a lot of trust here.”
WWE’s chief content officer Paul Levesque — a popular retired grappler better known to fans as “Triple H,” who is married to McMahon’s daughter, Stephanie — said during the WrestleMania press conference on Sunday that he was unable to confirm the reports of the sale but finished the conference saying “No matter what happens, WWE is going nowhere.” More details on the merger spread out into media reports Sunday and on into Monday, streaming into the eventual conformation of the deal.
McMahon, who built his father’s regional wrestling promotion into an international juggernaut, and Levesque, who is in charge of mapping out the actual story lines and matches, are expected to retain their leadership roles with WWE. Nick Khan will become WWE’s president while longtime combat-sports baron Dana White will remain his role as UFC president.
Though one business is tightly scripted and the other brutally spontaneous, there is consistent crossover between the worlds of WW and UFC. For example, former UFC competitors Ronda Rousey and Brock Lesnar recorded victories in their respective matches on Sunday.
Meanwhile, on the spectacularly decked out floor of SoFi, the two-day show delighted its fan base.
WWE saw four of its six champions successfully defend their titles over the weekend, including top-billed villain Roman Reigns, who earned a pinfall victory over Cody Rhodes to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in the main event. Reigns has held the titles for 945 consecutive days, a record for the current WWE era.
Reigns has worked together with members of his family — all wrestlers of Samoan descent with ties to the sport’s fabled Anoa’i dynasty — to create one of the strongest-ever storyline factions, known as “The Bloodline,” in the company.
The main event drew a split reaction of cheers and jeers throughout the match until its jaw-dropping conclusion. Some fans were jumping around, including one who was seen jumping on the chairs in excitement holding his replica championship belts in the air to celebrate, while others were in complete shock.
Over 80,000 attend the first night of WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., Saturday, April 1, 2023. It was announced Monday that Endeavor had signed an agreement with WWE to form a new, publicly listed company that will house UFC and WWE under one roof. (WWE via AP)
“This portion of my career has been the most fulfilling,” Reigns said during the WrestleMania press conference. “By being able to dive deep into this with Paul (Heyman), to bring my family along and lift them up and put them in a position to showcase their talent and potential to the point that we are the main event both nights of WrestleMania.”
Solo Sikoa and twins Jimmy and Jey Uso — all second-generation pro-wrestling brothers, sons of Hall of Fame star Rikishi — interfered in various points in the match to help give Reigns the advantage he needed to fend off Rhodes. Longtime Canadian cohorts Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn also made an appearance to defend Rhodes and remove the Usos from the match.
Zayn and Owens had stood tall as the new undisputed tag team champions on Night 1 of WrestleMania, after successfully defending the Usos.
Snarling, black-clad “heel” Rhea Ripley’s victory over Charlotte Flair — a multiple-time champ and daughter of wrestling legend “Nature Boy” Ric Flair who recently wrestled his final match — for the Smackdown Women’s Championship was the second of two title changes on Saturday.
Bianca Belair successfully defends the RAW Women’s Championship against Asuka at WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium on April 2, 2023. (Photo courtesy of WWE)
Ripley was the only member of her sinister “Judgment Day” faction to have a successful outing with Finn Balor and Dominik Mysterio losing their respective matches.
Balor was unable to defeat Hall of Fame star Edge in a “Hell in a Cell” match contested in a towering black cage. Balor did suffer a wound to his head — medics sealed with wound with staples right there in the ring — required staples but Levesque stated that he was going to be OK.
Second-generation teen star gone wrong Dominik Mysterio challenged his father, San Diego-based Rey Mysterio Jr.
It was a big weekend for the Mysterio family, with Rey being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on Friday at Crypto.com Arena. The elder Mysterio, known for his high-flying stunts and colorful array of masks, is widely considered one of the greatest-ever Latino luchadores, after launching his career in Mexico at the age of 14 in 1989.
Snoop Dogg during WrestleMania Goes Hollywood at SoFi Stadium on April 02, 2023 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
The local area was well represented with legendary Long Beach-born rapper Snoop Dogg cohosting the show.
Snoop also got to engage in a little impromptu ring action, staging an improvised knockout of co-host The Miz after his competitor — Shane McMahon, the son of WWE boss Vince McMahon, who hadn’t seen in-ring action in many months — was felled by a injury mere moments into his match. Levesque confirmed Shane McMahon had suffered a torn quadricep.
The Divas of Compton, a local youth dance troupe, also made an high-stepping appearance performing before Bianca Belair’s successful defense of her RAW Women’s Championship against Asuka and improving to 3-0 at WrestleMania. The local dancers were decked out in flashy Bianca-inspired garb, including her trademark braid.
“They were amazing,” said Belair about the dance team. “Just being able to meet them and during rehearsals when I first got to meet them I was tearing up. … they are going to do amazing things and I just wanted to bring them out.”
WWE star Bianca Belair performs with members of the Divas of Compton dance troupe at Wrestlemania on Sunday. Photo: WWE
Belair was impressed with the way the team handled themselves on a big stage and in front of so many people.
“They are 7 to 12 years old on this stage and not intimidated by being in front of 80,000 people and thousands of people watching on Peacock. They were amazing and I wanted to give them the stage and let them shine bright. … Representation is so important. They are my ‘why.’”
WrestleMania 39 results:
Night One
WWE United States Championship: Austin Theory def. John Cena
Fatal Four-Way Showcase: The Street Profits def. Alpha Academy,. Viking Raiders and Ricochet & Braun Strowman
Seth Rollins def. Logan Paul
Rey Mysterio def. Dominik Mysterio
Becky Lynch & Lita & Trish Stratus def. Damage CNTRL
Smackdown Women’s Championship: Rhea Ripley def. Charlotte Flair
Pat McAfee def. The Miz
Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship: Sami Zayn & Kevin Owens def. The Usos
Night Two
Brock Lesnar def. Omos
WWE Intercontinental Championship: Gunther def. Drew McIntyre and Sheamus
Fatal Four-Way Showcase: Ronda Rousey and Shayna Bazler def. Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez, Natalya & Shotzi, and Sonya Deville & Chelsea Green
Snoop Dogg def. the Miz
Raw Women’s Championship: Bianca Belair def. Asuka
Hell in a Cell: Edge def. Finn Balor
WWE Undisputed Universal Championship: Roman Reigns def. Cody Rhodes
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