{"id":144438,"date":"2025-10-20T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=144438"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:32:07","slug":"huge-wwe-world-title-announcement-made-at-beginning-of-monday-night-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/10\/20\/huge-wwe-world-title-announcement-made-at-beginning-of-monday-night-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge WWE World Title Announcement Made at Beginning of Monday Night Raw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Pearce promised us an update on Seth Rollins and the WWE world title, and boy did he have one to give.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce kicked off Raw before he was interrupted by the Vision. Pearce noted everyone knew Rollins was banged up after Crown Jewel but the world will never know just how bad. Pearce indicated that it was the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/10\/14\/seth-rollins-betrayed-by-bronson\/\" target=\"_self\">actions of the Vision, specifically Bronson Reed and Bron Breakker<\/a> that are why he was there today. While he credited the attack by the Brons and not the Crown Jewel match for Rollins&#8217; both real and now kayfabe injury angle, Pearce said the champ just had (real) surgery and will (actually) be on the shelf for months. That being said, he vacated the title and in short order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>announced a new champion would be crowned at Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event in November<\/li>\n<li>announced CM Punk, who earned the #1 contendership last week, would be in the match<\/li>\n<li>announced Punk would face the winner of an over-the-top battle royal&#8230;that would happen tonight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141181\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141181 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Seth-Rollins-and-Paul-Heyman-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"An injury to Seth Rollins has led to a huge shift in the WWE world title picture.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Seth-Rollins-and-Paul-Heyman-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Seth-Rollins-and-Paul-Heyman-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Seth-Rollins-and-Paul-Heyman-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Seth-Rollins-and-Paul-Heyman-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In short, Pearce wasted no time transitioning the title and keeping storylines moving. We here at Last Word on Pro Wrestling wish Seth Rollins a speedy and full recovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><i>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><u><i>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i> for more on the WWE world title,\u00a0and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Netflix<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>USA Network<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>The CW<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(NXT),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Tubi<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Evolve),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>A&amp;E<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Superstar Sunday \u2013 Rivals, WWE LFG, and Greatest Moments) and\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Peacock<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Main Event as well as archives and premium live event streaming). Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>YouTube<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>, and catch fast-paced action on X (<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/events\/1773457579022155776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>WWE Speed<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>).<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Pearce promised us an update on Seth Rollins and the WWE world title, and boy did he have one to give. Pearce kicked off Raw before he was interrupted by the Vision. Pearce noted everyone knew Rollins was banged up after Crown Jewel but the world will never know just how bad. Pearce indicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":144391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,2192,25,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144441,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144438\/revisions\/144441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}