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CM Punk and Jey Uso battled for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Saturday Night's Main Event after Seth Rollins vacated the Championship. Rollins won the Championship at SummerSlam after cashing in his Money in the Bank contract on CM Punk, who just won the title by beating Gunther.
Rollins was having an excellent reign of the Championship before getting injured at the Crown Jewel event, where he defeated Cody Rhodes for the Crown Jewel Championship. He suffered a shoulder injury and now he is going to be out of action for a number of months. He also had to vacate the Championship could not continue working in the ring.
Bubba Ray Dudley thinks CM Punk does not need to win the title right now
WWE announced a one on one match at the Saturday Night's Main Event show to crown the new World Heavyweight Champion. CM Punk got a bye since he was already scheduled to challenge for the title, and a Battle Royal was organised to determine the other No. 1 contender. Jey Uso won the battle Royal and earned the right to challenge for the title at SNME.
CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship at SNME
CM Punk ended up beating Jey Uso for the World Heavyweight Championship at SNME, and presently he stands as the face of Monday Night RAW. However, WWE Hall of Famer Bubba Ray Dudley recently explained why Punk should not have won the World Heavyweight Championship right now. Speaking on the “Busted Open Radio” podcast recently, he explained the following;
The previous champion Seth Rollins had to vacate the Championship due to injury
“It didn’t fit. Listen, everything went fine. Everything was good, everything worked out. No problems. They put the championship on Punk. There’s no negative to what they did. But it just didn’t feel like a big deal. Yes, the fans were happy; yes, the place popped. But it just didn’t feel like a a win that really, really mattered. It felt like a win because they had to do something based on what happened to Seth. And I think subconsciously that’s in the back of everybody’s minds.”
“It felt like this moment was to come down to him and Seth Rollins again. We never expected the injury, and then this to come down to Jey vs. Punk, two babyfaces. Two guys that kinda like each other. So there wasn’t that. I mean, it was a good wrestling match.” said Bubba Ray Dudley, regarding the World Heavyweight championship win of Punk.
