WWE Raw takeaways: Rollins stripped, Jey Uso yeets his bro for a title shot

The World Heavyweight Championship representation was wholly flipped connected its caput connected Monday's occurrence of "Raw." Seth Rollins was stripped of the satellite rubric aft WWE wide manager Adam Pearce announced the quality that Rollins had undergone "major surgery" and would beryllium "on the support for rather a while" aft Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed turned connected him past week.

A caller World Heavyweight Champion volition beryllium crowned astatine "Saturday Night's Main Event" connected Nov. 1. CM Punk, chap No. 1 contender, added commentary to the "Raw" main lawsuit Battle Royal that named his opponent, Jey Uso.

Oct. 20 Raw results

• World Tag Team Championship: AJ Styles and Dragon Lee decision The Judgement Day by pinfall

• Intercontinental Championship: Dominik Mysterio defeats Rusev by pinfall

• Women's Intercontinental Championship: Maxxine Dupri defeats Becky Lynch by disqualification

• Stephanie Vaquer defeats Roxanne Perez by pinfall

• Jey Uso wins Battle Royal

A caller heavyweight champion volition beryllium crowned

With respect to Rollins, it doesn't truly consciousness similar we are successful for a "ruse of the century" Part 2, due to the fact that it wouldn't marque consciousness to fake an wounded that is going to get your rubric taken from you. But Rollins is genuinely 1 of the top wrestlers of his era, and I anticipation helium tin instrumentality earlier Wrestlemania 42 successful April 2026. Imagine the absorption helium would get from a instrumentality lucifer connected the biggest amusement of the year.

As for the satellite heavyweight rubric picture, Jey Uso had to spell done a immense radical of contenders, including his duplicate member Jimmy, to get his shot. Dominik Mysterio, who successfully defended his Intercontinental Championship against Rusev earlier successful the night, was eliminated aboriginal but snuck backmost into the lucifer portion the refs were distracted. Jimmy saved Jey from elimination, but Jey did not instrumentality the favour adjacent the extremity of the match, sending Jimmy and LA Knight to the outside. Jey would spell connected to destruct "Dirty Dom" to unafraid his rubric shot.

Punk vs. Jey volition beryllium a bully match. Punk winning and holding onto the rubric until Rollins' instrumentality would beryllium fun. Punk has nary shortage of imaginable challengers successful the meantime -- including "Dirty Dom."

More Raw takeaways

• Paul Heyman definite knows however to spot value connected each azygous endowment helium backs. Breakker and Reed already were ascending, but Heyman's promo successful the ringing aft Pearce's announcement to commencement the amusement made them look similar aboriginal Hall of Famers.

• AJ Styles is simply a Mount Rushmore endowment of this generation. He's a squad player, a terrific locker country person and the benignant of feline who tin person a lucifer of the year-level bout with John Cena past spell close backmost to the tag squad rubric picture. That's not a sound connected tag squad wrestling. It's a testament to the quality of "The Phenomenal One" to excel successful each situation, anyplace connected the card.

• Speaking of that tag squad rubric match, kudos to Styles, Dragon Lee, Finn Balor and JD McDonagh connected a highly entertaining match. Some fantastic 2.999 adjacent pinfalls, particularly the McDonagh prevention aft a Styles Phenomenal Forearm astir pinned Balor. He couldn't person executed it better. CM Punk adjacent praised McDonagh's show portion commentating connected the main lawsuit Battle Royal.

• I don't caput Becky Lynch hardly holding connected to the Women's Intercontential Championship against Maxxine Dupri, due to the fact that it makes Dupri consciousness similar a worthy adversary with the quality to bushed the seasoned Lynch. A rematch betwixt the 2 for the rubric would beryllium a definitive decision to their story.