{"id":144447,"date":"2025-10-20T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=144447"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:01:38","slug":"wwe-announces-massive-names-for-wwe-world-championship-1-contenders-battle-royal-on-raw-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/10\/20\/wwe-announces-massive-names-for-wwe-world-championship-1-contenders-battle-royal-on-raw-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Announces Massive Names for World Championship #1 Contender&#8217;s Battle Royal on Raw Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Raw was already stacked with three championship matches before <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/10\/20\/huge-wwe-world-title-announcement-made-at-beginning-of-monday-night-raw\/\" target=\"_self\">Adam Pearce announced a huge #1 contendership<\/a> for the newly vacated world heavyweight championship. After addressing Seth Rollins&#8217; injury would require him to miss a decent amount of time, Pearce officially stripped Rollins and moved on to his next line of business: crowning a new champ.<\/p>\n<p>CM Punk won a #1 contender&#8217;s match last week and Pearce was going to honor that. So tonight, there would be a #1 contender&#8217;s battle royal to determine who would face Punk at Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event in November. About an hour through Raw, the field for the match was revealed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jey Uso,<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Uso<\/li>\n<li>LA Knight<\/li>\n<li>Rusev<\/li>\n<li>Grayson Waller<\/li>\n<li>Kofi Kingston<\/li>\n<li>Dominik Mysterio<\/li>\n<li>Finn Balor<\/li>\n<li>JD McDonagh<\/li>\n<li>Otis<\/li>\n<li>El Grande Americano<\/li>\n<li>Penta<\/li>\n<li>Bron Breakker<\/li>\n<li>Bronson Reed<\/li>\n<li>AJ Styles<\/li>\n<li>Dragon Lee<\/li>\n<li>Sheamus<\/li>\n<li>Tozawa<\/li>\n<li>Ivar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of these men will go on to face CM Punk to compete for the newly vacated title and it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess who will emerge from that stacked field. Check back later for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/10\/20\/wwe-raw-results-10-20-25-live-updates-for-3-title-match-night\/\" target=\"_self\">full results<\/a> from the match.<\/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, WWE Raw tonight, and 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>WWE Raw was already stacked with three championship matches before Adam Pearce announced a huge #1 contendership for the newly vacated world heavyweight championship. After addressing Seth Rollins&#8217; injury would require him to miss a decent amount of time, Pearce officially stripped Rollins and moved on to his next line of business: crowning a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":141181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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],"tags":[4834],"class_list":["post-144447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe","tag-wwe-world-heavyweight-championship"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144447","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=144447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144449,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144447\/revisions\/144449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}