WWE Scraps Seth Rollins’ Supershow Japan Title Match After Shoulder Injury
Seth Rollins is already paying for the shoulder injury he suffered against Cody Rhodes at Crown Jewel on October 11, 2025, just as he’s booked for back-to-back WWE SuperShow bouts in Japan on October 17 and 18.
WWE just reshuffled a whole overseas tour because Seth Rollins banged up his shoulder last weekend. If you were hoping to see the Architect in Japan this week, that plan is gone.
The injury that started it
Rollins hurt his shoulder during his Crown Jewel championship match with Cody Rhodes on October 11, 2025. That knock is already turning into exactly the kind of long-term fallout people around him were worried about.
Japan tour shake-up
Rollins was booked for back-to-back matches on WWE SuperShow dates in Japan on October 17 and 18, including a world title bout with CM Punk. Multiple outlets on X and elsewhere say WWE has now pulled him from the entire Japan lineup. Here is how the card changed:
- October 17: Instead of CM Punk vs Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship, WWE pivoted to CM Punk vs Dominik Mysterio with Dominik's Intercontinental Championship on the line. That swap has been echoed by several sources, not just one tweet.
- October 18: The original plan was a six-man tag: CM Punk, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Jey Uso vs Seth Rollins, Bronson Reed, and Bron Breakker. With Rollins out, WWE also pulled Jey and turned it into a standard tag: Punk and Nakamura vs Reed and Breakker (per ITRWrestling). A pretty dramatic shuffle just to keep the balance right.
How bad is this for Rollins?
Officially, WWE has not put out a statement on the exact diagnosis. PWInsider says Rollins is scheduled for testing in the coming days to determine the severity, and the decision to yank him from both Japan dates suggests this is not a minor tweak. Sports Illustrated reports the expectation is 'several months' out. If that holds, a late-2025 return seems optimistic at best.
One more wrinkle for Japan
CM Punk is still advertised for both live events overseas on October 17 and 18. For fans keeping score, he has not wrestled in Japan since 2011, so him working both nights is a notable booking choice on its own.
Bottom line: Rollins is sidelined, Japan gets a very different pair of cards, and we are probably not seeing Seth back until the calendar flips—assuming the tests confirm what the schedule changes already imply.