Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A daren da ya biyo baya a kan "Raw", Owens ya yarda da kalubalen Jericho don wasa a WrestleMania 33 a ranar 2 ga Afrilu muddin Jericho zai kare Gasar Amurka, wanda Owens zai ci gaba da lashe shi a karon farko a cikin aikinsa. A ranar 11 ga Afrilu na "SmackDown Live", an yi musayar Owens zuwa alamar SmackDown a matsayin wani ɓangare na WWE Superstar Shake-up na 2017. Owens, wanda har yanzu zai kare sabon taken da ya ci nasara a kan Jericho a Payback tare da wanda ya ci nasara ya tafi SmackDown, ya fara kiran kansa da "Face of America" kuma ya fara yin wasa da wani nau'i daban-daban, bayan ya yanke gemu da gashinsa, yayin da yake sanye da kwat da wando. A Payback a ranar 30 ga Afrilu, Owens ya rasa taken zuwa Jericho, don haka ya ƙare mulkinsa a kwanaki 28. Koyaya, Owens zai dawo da taken a ranar 2 ga Mayu a cikin shirin "SmackDown Live" ta hanyar kayar da Jericho, sannan kuma ya kai masa hari da raunata shi bayan wasan. A Ƙungiyar Backlash
, Owens ya doke AJ Styles ta hanyar ƙidaya don riƙe gasar zakarun Amurka. Daga baya an sanar da Owens a matsayin daya daga cikin mahalarta a cikin kudin da aka samu a bankin a bankin, tare da Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamura, Styles, Dolph Ziggler da Baron Corbin, wanda Corbin ya fito da nasara.