The World Heavyweight Championship image was utterly flipped on its head on Monday’s episode of “Uncooked.” Seth Rollins was stripped of the world title after WWE basic supervisor Adam Pearce introduced the information that Rollins had undergone “main surgical procedure” and can be “on the shelf for fairly some time” after Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed turned on him final week.
A brand new World Heavyweight Champion shall be topped at “Saturday Night time’s Major Occasion” on Nov. 1. CM Punk, fellow No. 1 contender, added commentary to the “Uncooked” primary occasion Battle Royal that named his opponent, Jey Uso.
Oct. 20 Uncooked outcomes
• World Tag Crew Championship: AJ Kinds and Dragon Lee defeat The Judgement Day by pinfall
• Intercontinental Championship: Dominik Mysterio defeats Rusev by pinfall
• Girls’s Intercontinental Championship: Maxxine Dupri defeats Becky Lynch by disqualification
• Stephanie Vaquer defeats Roxanne Perez by pinfall
• Jey Uso wins Battle Royal
A brand new heavyweight champion shall be topped
With regard to Rollins, it would not actually really feel like we’re in for a “ruse of the century” Half 2, as a result of it would not make sense to pretend an harm that’s going to get your title taken from you. However Rollins is actually one of many best wrestlers of his period, and I hope he can return earlier than Wrestlemania 42 in April 2026. Think about the response he would get from a return match on the most important present of the 12 months.
As for the world heavyweight title image, Jey Uso needed to undergo an enormous group of contenders, together with his twin brother Jimmy, to get his shot. Dominik Mysterio, who efficiently defended his Intercontinental Championship towards Rusev earlier within the evening, was eradicated early however snuck again into the match whereas the refs have been distracted. Jimmy saved Jey from elimination, however Jey didn’t return the favor close to the top of the match, sending Jimmy and LA Knight to the surface. Jey would go on to eradicate “Soiled Dom” to safe his title shot.
Punk vs. Jey shall be an excellent match. Punk successful and holding onto the title till Rollins’ return can be enjoyable. Punk has no scarcity of attainable challengers within the meantime — together with “Soiled Dom.”
Extra Uncooked takeaways
• Paul Heyman certain is aware of learn how to place significance on each single expertise he backs. Breakker and Reed already have been ascending, however Heyman’s promo within the ring after Pearce’s announcement to start out the present made them appear like future Corridor of Famers.
• AJ Kinds is a Mount Rushmore expertise of this technology. He is a group participant, a terrific locker room chief and the type of man who can have a match of the year-level bout with John Cena then go proper again to the tag group title image. That is not a knock on tag group wrestling. It is a testomony to the power of “The Phenomenal One” to excel in each state of affairs, anyplace on the cardboard.
• Talking of that tag group title match, kudos to Kinds, Dragon Lee, Finn Balor and JD McDonagh on a extremely entertaining match. Some fantastic 2.999 close to pinfalls, particularly the McDonagh save after a Kinds Phenomenal Forearm practically pinned Balor. He could not have executed it higher. CM Punk even praised McDonagh’s efficiency whereas commentating on the primary occasion Battle Royal.
• I do not thoughts Becky Lynch barely holding on to the Girls’s Intercontential Championship towards Maxxine Dupri, as a result of it makes Dupri really feel like a worthy adversary with the power to beat the veteran Lynch. A rematch between the 2 for the title can be a definitive conclusion to their story.