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Ups & Downs - WWE Raw Review (Oct 20th)

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0

Raw general manager Adam Pearce was out at the start of the show this week to give us a health update on Seth Rollins,

0:22.9

and I have decided I would like this from somebody. They can walk out and go today, Simon Phil's tired. And bald is going to be that most days. Also, though my friends are working two ups and downs, the only wrestling review show you need, because I watch wrestling so you don't have to. and I have just watched Raw, so we're going to go through it beat by beat.

0:39.4

The good one gets it up, the babbit gets it down. Do not forget to go to norvpn.com 4 slash what culture where you can get a good old deal where essentially it's going to cost you less than $3 a month and I'm not saying anything. But then you can watch wrestling on other services. Maybe, allegedly, apparently, I don't know.

0:44.9

Also, during the recap video, from last week, the aired on Raw, they actually left in a mistake when Michael Cole said, Rollins has just knocked out Rollins. So we may be living in the phantom zone.

0:51.4

Let's up those doubts. And appears wasn't able to say much else, though, because out came Brombreaker, Bronzerie and Paul Heyman. And Brombreaker had Seth Rollins's World Championship over his shoulder. And Adam Pierce didn't like that when he did drop the news. Seth Rollins has already vacated this championship because he had had major surgeries. So let's take the sports entertainment stories and throw it over there because it does not matter. I just hope that guy gets back to 100% as quickly as he can. I mean, he always bust his ass, and this is just mega unfortunate. Like I'm sure there'll be some things WW can do to use it for lack of a better term, because usually that does happen when somebody does get injured. But talking about the real life, Seth Rollins, again. All the best wishes to him, hope he's back on his feet soon. It absolutely sacks. Pierce then also told us our main event this evening will be a battle rule to determine a second number one contender, and that number one contender will then take on CM Punk and Saturday night's main event, and the winner will become the brand new World Heavyweight Champions. So I can understand this one. Your back's against the wall. You need to put things in place. What's the fastest match you can do? A battle royal. At this point too, Adam said to Mr. Brombreaker, can I please have that belt back? Bron was like, no man. You're not about to take it from me, and then Paul Heyman kind of took it. Essentially, they made

2:03.3

Adam Pearce say please. And then they did pass the championship back over to him. At the time, I just thought they were trying to be intimidating. It was actually going to tie into a story beat later on. Nobody's around. It was a little bit silly. And appears then left because why would you hang out with these goobers when Paul Heyman cut his big promo.

2:21.3

And I also found this weird. He was all like, ha ha ha ha. Bronson Reed and Brom Breaker were always conspiring behind the back of Seth Rollins and now they've executed their plan.

2:31.3

I was like, that's not what happened seven days ago. Brom Breaker Seth Rollins his ass, then went to Bronzerie and said, oh, God, I'm you should be with me. By the way, Paul Heyman, you should be with me too. I've got my accents wrong there. So unless they were just having a moment, it was sold to us like they had just decided to do this on the day, or that Brom Breaker was fed up with Seth Rollins being all like, I can do everything by myself. He also called Seth Rollins a bum-shoulder bitch, which feels very mean, when he was all like, oh, the vision of the future, and I'm so happy to be with the vision. Maybe I'm being a negative Nancy here, but I kind of feel like Brom Breaker should have taken that microphone, been like, that's great pool. And we are happy you've jumped on board, but don't forget this is my ship now, and I'm sailing it all the way to Success Town. He then could have been like, yes, it was me. I was the worm in the dirt, but quite clearly you do see the future in my eyes, and that's why you have jump on board. So if I do take that and the fact that Seth Rollins is injured to begin with, which isn't any good at all, I am going to give it a down, and actually that was one of my pet peeves throughout this episode of Raw. Sometimes I think when the chips do fall on the floor, you should just look at somebody, you know you're going to push anyway, and be like, you know what let's pull the trigger now, especially because Jacob Fah two is going to be out for a while as

3:43.7

well. I don't really feel like W.W. We did that. But of course, we do need to see what's going to happen over the coming weeks and months. By December, I could look like an absolute fall, more so than I already do, but yeah, down was just a little bit lackluster.

3:58.4

The judgment day was then furious with Dominic Mysterio, because of course last week he had And I already do, but yeah, down was just a little bit lackluster.

3:58.4

The judgment day was then furious for Dominic Mysterio, because of course last week he had accidentally booked Finn Bala and J.D. McDonor in a tag team title match. I was a bit like, thank goodness of that, Dom, because it's been ages. And we had Roxanne Perez, talking about Raquel Rodriguez, because they're going to be flubbing up to definitely the care later, and Roxanne being like, Dominic, I love you, and you can do nothing wrong. So Liv Morgan's going to return soon and punch her right in the face. We went right into this tag team title match as well, and let's not stand on Cerebony Mr. Wayne. AJ Stiles and Dragon Lee or A.J. Lee or Dragon Stiles, which is also an amazing name, actually won those flubbing belts. I was like, you did have to do it. Because if they had a lost here, who the flub would have Judgment Day even fought. There are barely any tag teams on the roster. The ones we do have, well, they've all vanished. Lee and J.D. then started killing each other with power bombs when Finn Ballot and AJ Stiles got the hot tags and I will watch them fight for the rest of my life. When AJ did get the phenomenal forearm and J.D. McDonough broke up the pin. When we got a Spanish fly, I ask you this, my friends. Who the hell asked where it came from to begin with? Lee then make sure to kill J.D. McDonough with the dives. I put a one on the dive counter when Finn Ballo was like, ha ha, I'm going to hit you with the Stiles class, AJ Stiles. He was like, don't you dare try and do my move on me. The most insulting thing in professional wrestling. He hit the Stars Clash. He got the three. And yeah, as in the drag. Now have the tag team titles, And who are they going to face? I have absolutely no idea. Although the rumor was Bronson Reed and Bronbroker were going to win these titles before all the madness. Maybe we do still do this because they're bad guys. Stars and the drag are good guys. I'm just saying. Now I'm going to give it an up. You did did need to change these tag team titles now, please, for the love of everything, do something with them. And given that AJ Stars is retiring in 2006, with any love we can give that guy, I'm down for it. Jimmy and Jay Usa then had another very difficult meeting backstage. I was about like, guys, you really need to start having conversations in the week because you're just putting all your personal life on TV. Jimmy still feels like Jay Usa is being two Roman reigns, though, although they did try to make up. But the big takeaway is that Jimmy was like, you need to start believing in yourself again. If you want that World Championship back, although, wink, wink, nudge, in that battle raw later,

6:11.6

I have to put myself first. So Jail's like, well, you know what, I'm going to put myself first too when they did shake hands. And, well, that wasn't going to happen. We'll get there. I guess that Dominic Mysterio had been warming up during all of this, because it was then time for an intercontinental title match as Dombey boy was defending against Rusev. The first thing Mysterio did was dive on the man, put one on the counter, and he threw him in December the still steps. This didn't help at all because Rusef then got in the ring and he batted this guy half to death. Dom-Dom was able to get some double-ax handles to get back this, so he was my hero, but when he went from the spass of the flogs,

6:46.2

Roussev got his knees up, so Dominic was like, screw this, I'm going to leave. When Penta arrived, because he wanted to stop Dominic doing this, when Penta and Roussev got into it, and Roussev just punched Penta right in the face. I was like, Penta, this was always going to happen.

7:00.4

Why do you care?

7:01.5

Who is the ICONDEL title here?

7:03.5

In fact, you just shot yourself in the face. I was like, Penta, this was always going to happen. Why do you care? Who wins the its kind of title here? In fact, you just shot yourself in the foot or the mask. It's just that ridiculous thing that WW sometimes does, when because you're a baby face, you'll just do ridiculously good things, even though nobody would act that way. And throughout all of this, Rusev then found Timmy the Timekeeper's hammer in Dominic Mysterio's

7:19.1

boot, and you have never seen anybody so mad. Of course, Rusef took it away when the referee

7:23.7

magically saw him and was like, you can't use that, you Bulgarian brute. And given that the

7:28.4

official was distractive, Dominic pelted him right in the penis, he hit the 619, he got the splash of the frogs, and he pinned him for the 1-2-3. So not only does he retain his intercontinental title, there's always rumours going around, that it may be Dominic versus John Sina, with that belt on the line, after thinking about it, I think that's great. I am going to give it up, especially because Dominic'sterio is just a baby face now. So that's something to consider. Mostly though, it's pretty damn fun. Should have also mentioned that Otis was just magically back at the start of this show and nobody told us where he had been. But he is going to be in the battle of all later. When we had back-to-back, I see title matches because it was Becky Lynch versus Maxine Dupree. This just works, man. Maxine has this thing about her where you just want to root for her, and she is the underdog. Becky Lynch, this kind of heel meant she could just pound on her here and there. I never actually thought Maxine was going to win. But in terms of what they have been doing the last few weeks, I think it's zeer-ze elegant. Dupri Kett going for the most devastating move.

8:26.0

In all of sports entertainment too over and over again, although this didn't really work,

8:31.0

when she realized, oh my gosh, I can buff my stats and she pulled down the straps,

8:36.0

and that means your HP goes up and you get more MP, I mean it's just simple RPG.

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