WWE RAW 10/20 Recap: Jey Uso Betrays Jimmy To Earn World HW Title Match Against CM Punk

After a quick recap of Breakker’s turn last week, the kickoff segment of RAW began with GM Adam Pearce inside the ring on the verge of speaking before a black SUV pulled up and out walked “The Vision” sans Rollins. One by one, Heyman, Reed, and Breakker who carried Rollins’s heavyweight title in hand, they stepped out of the SUV as the camera followed them all the way through Gorilla and into the arena.

After declaring that Punk earned his title shot after defeating Jey and Knight in a #1 contenders match, he made it clear that a champion will be decided before that title match to spite Breakker’s coup de gras causing Rollins to relinquish his reign.

With the HW title vacant, Pearce announced that a new champion would be crowned at Saturday Nights Main Event on November 1^st live from the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pearce announced that there would be an ‘over-the-top’ battle royal to decide who Punk would face in the match to crown the new champ.

The dust settled on Pearce’s promo and things became very contentious when he said, “Bron, respectfully, I’m going to need you to hand over the world heavyweight championship, now, please.” This was in response to Breakker telling Pearce to ‘say please.’

Breakker eventually handed over the title and that is when the ‘Heyman promo’ on Breakker began—receiving an intro in the same vein as past Heyman Guys’ like Lesnar, Reigns, and, most recently, Rollins. “It was vision over bloodline, and there’s Seth Rollins pointing to the future with one good arm,” Heyman said before taking a shot at Seth by claiming he could not carry The Vision with a bum shoulder.

“He’s a bum shoulder b***h”, Heyman exclaimed before claiming winners write history.

The promo revolved around the future, and Heyman put him over even though last week’s finish seemed to catch him by surprise. But this was not a ‘Solo’ program where Heyman is being forced to accommodate, instead, this was Heyman, a week later and convinced that Breakker was always the ONE—the one to win world championships, the one to headline Mania, and the one to completely replace The Architect that cultivated The Vision.

LATER

At the end of the 2^nd hour, Adam Pearce wanted his ‘get back’ on The Vision for embarrassing him earlier in the night. So, he told Heyman that both Breakker and Reed were pulled from tonight’s battle royal for the title match against Punk. Pearce told Heyman if he wanted his guys back in the match he needed to say ‘please,’ but after getting his receipt the RAW GM still said ‘no.’

If that wasn’t contentious enough, Becky Lynch approached Heyman with a face that suggested she was not happy immediately after his powwow with Pearce. Heyman started talking fast, claiming that Breakker and Reed turned on Seth and that he had no say in the matter. Heyman then tugged at Becky’s motherly heartstrings, suggesting that ‘surviving the day’ is sometimes the best you can do even if Seth couldn’t—it was both patronizing and insulting to Becky’s intelligence.

“It’s win/win for you, you can have a hot husband at home and an adorable oracle on the road,” Paul said to Becky, telling her to think about it. Becky did not respond kindly, calling Heyman a penguin and claiming she never liked him. Becky said he never needed Heyman, he used him and said it was surprising it took him so long to turn on Seth—something she stoldher man fully expected before claiming Seth would destroy any ‘nepo-baby’ aligned with Heyman.

JEY AND JIMMY CHRONICLES: UPS & DOWNS OF BROTHERS THAT FIGHT… TOGETHER?

The USOS have been on a drama-filled rollercoaster dividing the once powerful “Bloodline” faction into three men, Jey, Jimmy, and Roman, as separate forces pulling one or the other towards one and away from the other. After weeks of bickering and escalation, Jey began the backstage segment by apologizing for his treatment of Jimmy last week.

Jimmy was not hearing it and he snapped at Jey at first mention of Roman, and he then reminded his twin bro that both he and Jey are entrants in tonight’s battle royal for the heavyweight title.

Jimmy then dropped the bomb on Jey by claiming he lost the hw title because “Jey stopped believing in Jey.” Jimmy then said he’s ‘going in on everybody’ including Jey, and his brother seemed to understand where Jimmy was coming from but was more concerned with their relationship being ‘cool.’

MAIN EVENT: 17-MAN RAW OVER THE TOP BATTLE ROYAL—#1 Contender WWE Heavyweight Title

Before the main event, Heyman had a meeting with Breakker and Reed in which Bron made it clear that he did not understand how they showed up with the title and are now out of the battle royal. Heyman used Brock Lesnar as an example for the young guns to understand that listening to the oracle eventually gets you into the main event—in Brock’s case it was several months later and against The Rock. Heyman did his best to settle the tempers of both men, and in the end both admitted they still have a lot to learn.

Almost every single compeitior in the match received an entrance as they piled in the ring before the official bell sounded—though it was CM Punk that received the final entrance as he sat on commentary to get a look at his future opponent. Without Breakker in the match, it felt like the field was open wider, though Jey was clearly the favorite.

The final four consisted of LA Knight, Jimmy Uso, AJ Styles, and Jey Uso—with Dom playing the role of hidden spoiler. Jey and Jimmy, despite claiming it was every man for themselves, eventually began helping each other—giving the tag team specialist a leg up over the remaining field. However, when Jimmy attempted to eliminate LA Knight, Jey Uso took the opportunity to eliminate Knight along with his brother. Dom popped up out of nowhere and the crowd was very excited for the potential of Dom on a three-title reign.

Jey ended up eliminating Dom and a face-off with Punk closed out RAW, but it was the look on Jimmy’s face after ‘saving’ his brother twice in the match that told the rest of the story.

THE JUDGMENT DAY(c) vs. AJ STYLES & DRAGON LEE—WWE Tag Team Titles

If you said at the beginning of the year that AJ Lee would become a champion in 2025 WWE, then you probably assumed once the former women’s (Divas) champion returned with her husband CM Punk to defeat Becky Lynch and her husband Seth Rollins.

However, the tag team of AJ Styles and Dragon Lee became tag team champions tonight after defeating the incredibly inactive champs in The Judgement Day’s Fin Balor and JD McDonaugh. The online fandom of this pairing has resorted to calling them “AJ-LEE,” a funny play off both of their names.

For weeks, Lee and Styles have made huge impact on the tag team division and have provided some of the best matches of the night, and tonight launched them into the history books of incredible singles wrestlers turned tag team—they might not have the star power of Stone Cold Steve Austin and Shawn Micheales tag team title run in the mid-90’s, but they certainly possess an extra quality that you do not always get in these pairings.

DOMINIK MYSTERIO(c) vs. RUSEV—Intercontinental Title

Dom has personified his “dirty” nickname and took it to a whole other level as of recent, specifically with his creative ‘veteran tactics’ that most would call “cheating.” Rusev received an IC title shot against Dom three weeks ago, unsuccessfully challenging for the IC title on the Sept. 29^th edition of RAW. Dom cheated to win that match and has been ‘ducking’ Rusev every week since, and throughout this title feud, Rusev has caught the ire of Penta who is on his own chase for Dom’s title.

Penta showed up in this match, but Rusev was reluctant to take any assist and threw Dom into Penta. Before Penta got involved, Dom attempted to flee the match with both of his titles in hand—taking the count out loss without losing his title. Rusev eventually was able to get things under control, but by the time he got back into he ring Dom got the jump on him.

Rusev attempted to utilize the ‘time keeper’s hammer’ that Dom introduced into the ring, but he could not go ‘cheat for cheat’ with “The Dirty One.” Dom retained the title and that left Penta alone with Rusev to get his revenge on the title-less Bulgarian.

OTHER TIDBITS/IN-RING ACTION

• Becky Lynch and Maxxine Dupri continued their rivalry after Lynch went life and death with Dupri last week for her women’s IC title. Lynch was pushed to the max and they decided to run it back, and even though there were some solid near-falls they could not quite duplicate last week’s magic. Instead, this segment was meant to continue the downfall of Lynch as her husband, forced to relinquish his title, sits on a shelf for an unknown timeframe.
• The Kabuki Warriros cut a promo via video vignette with Auska claiming they need ‘titles around their waist’ because they are “back,” even though they’re fresh off a loss against Ripley and Sky.
• Stephanie Vacquer picked up the win over Roxanne Perez in singles action. Vacquer is positioned for a huge ‘Road to WrestleMania’ 2026, but for now, creative is biding their time in the ‘slow days’ of the year’s final quarter. It was said on commentary, Perez tied LA Knight for the most active superstar on the roster with this, her 44 ^th televised match this year. After the match, Perez and Raquel Rodriguez attacked the champ, but that is when Nikki Bella came in for the save. The faces struggled but eventually rid the heals from the ring.