Jacob Fatu's aura was on full display Saturday night in the opening contest of Backlash, in which he successfully retained the United States Championship with a win over LA Knight, Damian Priest, and Drew McIntyre in a Fatal 4-Way Match.

The WrestleMania match -- just over 11 minutes -- was a mechanism to crown Cena and give JBL his comeuppance. The title rematch that followed, a brutal "I Quit" match a month later at Judgment Day, was the true in-ring classic. But dethroning JBL at WrestleMania 21 was an important step on that path.