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“Gunther beat Jey Uso to win the World title on the 6/9 Raw show in Phoenix.
It was confirmed to us the reason this happened is because Paul Levesque made the call to make Gunther vs. Bill Goldberg on 7/12’s Saturday Night’s Main Event a title match, likely since it was going on the same day as All In Texas.
Gunther vs. Goldberg was always going to be the retirement match and it was always going against All in Texas and on NBC, with the idea of maximizing that day with the big match not on Netflix but on free network TV.”
We didn’t need the explanation manJust like that, Uso’s world title reign ended in less than 60 days with only two title successful title defenses. One of those matches was a very rushed bout against Logan Paul on Saturday Night’s Main Event, and the other had a disappointing disqualification finish on Raw. No Yeet.
This begs the question, why did WWE suddenly cut off Jey’s run with the gold like that? According to Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer, it’s because the plan is to make Goldberg’s retirement match next month as big as possible by putting GUNTHER’s world title on the line.