Subhojeet Mukherjee on June 13, 2025
GUNTHER defeated Jey Uso on the June 9th edition of Monday Night Raw in order to become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion again. Fans have been wondering why the Ring General won in the first place, and now the reason behind his win has been revealed.
According to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, GUNTHER defeating Jey Uso was a decision made by Triple H, who wanted GUNTHER vs. Goldberg on the July 12 edition of Saturday Night’s Main Event to be a title match.
Meltzer noted that this show takes place on the same day as All In Texas. Putting a title match on free network TV, especially one featuring Goldberg’s retirement match, was seen as a way to make the event stand out.
Dave Meltzer added that the plan had always been for GUNTHER vs. Goldberg to serve as Goldberg’s final match, airing on NBC rather than Netflix so that it would get the most attention possible on that big day.
“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.”
As reported earlier, Goldberg will be making his return to WWE television on the June 16th edition of Monday Night Raw, where he is expected to confront WWE World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER. Regardless, we’ll have to see how WWE will book GUNTHER and Goldberg’s feud in the coming weeks as it’s definitely going to lead to a huge match.
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June 13, 2025 9:04 am
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