Seth Rollins crowned inaugural WWE World Heavyweight Champion
Seth Rollins is the inaugural holder of WWE’s new World Heavyweight Championship.
The title tournament wrapped up on Saturday with Rollins defeating AJ Styles in the opening match of Night of Champions. Despite Styles targeting his knee during the match, Rollins was able to hit a stomp on Styles to get the victory.
There was a moment leading into the finish where Styles was going for a Phenomenal Forearm but got caught with a superkick. Rollins went to follow it up with a stomp, but his knee was too hurt to hit the move. Rollins was able to avoid the Calf Crusher and give Styles a Pedigree. Rollins then hit a stomp to win the match.
Paul “Triple H” Levesque then entered the ring and presented Rollins with the World Heavyweight Championship belt.
New World Heavyweight Champion @WWERollins is joined by @TripleH for an emotional celebration at #WWENOC! pic.twitter.com/TWbOgF65QP
— WWE (@WWE) May 27, 2023
This is the first World title Rollins has held since he was Universal Champion in 2019.
The creation of the new World Heavyweight Championship was announced by Levesque last month. The title is Raw’s World Championship, while Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns is the champion of SmackDown.
Rollins hasn’t appeared in person on Raw the last two weeks due to filming for the upcoming Marvel movie “Captain America: New World Order.”
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