WWE Raw 1/26/26 Review | CM Punk Gives AJ Styles A Title Match, HE'S DONE ISN'T HE?
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
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Solomonster reviews WWE Raw before the Royal Rumble with CM Punk giving AJ Styles a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship on a night where it truly felt like AJ is out the door after this weekend. But does that mean he's retired from WRESTLING or just from WWE?
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight was the final WWE Raw before the Royal Rumble. |
| 0:05.0 | You know how many people I've heard from this week who said, wait, the Rumble is Saturday? |
| 0:09.9 | Yeah, yeah, the Royal Rumble is actually on Saturday. |
| 0:13.8 | I know it doesn't feel like it. |
| 0:15.7 | It doesn't feel like Royal Rumble season, does it? |
| 0:19.1 | It's kind of what happens when you really start promoting the show as if you remembered, oh shit, we have a Royal Rumble season, does it? It's kind of what happens when you really start promoting the show as if you |
| 0:22.9 | remembered, oh shit, we have a Royal Rumble coming up only about a week ago. Tonight they were in Toronto, |
| 0:31.1 | and the real story of tonight, it really wasn't even about the Royal Rumble. It feels to me like they are speed running |
| 0:41.1 | through the AJ Stiles retirement run. And if you would have asked me a week ago, do I honestly believe |
| 0:49.8 | when this match was announced for Saturday, where AJ wasJ. was going to put his career on the line |
| 0:56.0 | against Gunther, do you really think that this is going to be AJ's last match in WWE? |
| 1:01.3 | Here in 2006, I would have said, of course not. And now they've boxed themselves into a corner |
| 1:06.7 | because you really shouldn't be beating Gunther right now, right? He just retired John Cena a month ago. |
| 1:12.9 | But now you almost have no choice, right? |
| 1:14.9 | Or you could do some sort of disqualification finish in their match. |
| 1:17.6 | But like, how are they going to get out of this, right? |
| 1:19.1 | What are they going to do? |
| 1:21.1 | And then on 24 hours notice, they announced on Smackdown Friday night |
| 1:24.9 | that A.J. Stiles was going to be wrestling his old rival, |
| 1:30.3 | Shinski Nakamura, out of nowhere, on Saturday night's main event. |
| 1:35.1 | One last time. |
| 1:36.1 | And I thought, hmm, kind of short notice to put the match like that together. |
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