{"id":320199,"date":"2025-10-21T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/320199\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:42:11","slug":"wwe-strips-rollins-of-the-world-heavyweight-title-after-major-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/320199\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE strips Rollins of the world heavyweight title after \u2018major surgery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tonight\u2019s (Oct. 20) episode of Raw kicked off with General Manager Adam Pearce making a major announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He said World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins was already banged up coming out of his Crown Jewel match against Cody Rhodes, and he was further injured when The Vision shockingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/389697\/wwe-raw-vision-turns-seth-rollins-attacked-bron-breakker-bronson-reed-paul-heyman-cm-punk-1-contender-world-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned on him<\/a> last week. As a result of that attack, Rollins already had \u201cmajor surgery\u201d and will be out of action for a long time. Pearce was left with no choice but to strip Seth of the gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rollins wasn\u2019t in the building to address the situation. Bron Breakker walked out with the belt in his possession last week, so Pearce asked him to hand it over\u2026please.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The new champion will be crowned on November 1 at Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event when CM Punk goes one-on-one with the winner of a Battle Royal that takes place later tonight on Raw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Once Pearce left the ring, Paul Heyman took the mic and explained why The Vision turned on Rollins. You see, he just couldn\u2019t \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/389943\/seth-rollins-injury-news-wwe-shoulder-rotator-cuff-surgery-world-title-vacate-unknown-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shoulder<\/a>\u201d the responsibility of leading The Vision into the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ouch, that\u2019s got to be a blow to the ego of the former champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Catch up on the all the results from Raw in our live blog right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/391295\/wwe-raw-results-live-blog-oct-20-2025-dom-mysterio-becky-lynch-title-matches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight\u2019s (Oct. 20) episode of Raw kicked off with General Manager Adam Pearce making a major announcement. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,205,67,132,68,188,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-320199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-saturday-nights-main-event","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wwe","14":"tag-wwe-raw"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115410091755116502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}