Horrible news out of Dublin, Ireland from the current WWE European tour will change the face of the WWE's main event landscape for the foreseeable future.
Seth Rollins, who has held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship since defeating Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania back in March, suffered tears to his right ACL, MCL, and medial meniscus during a power bomb spot in a match with Kane earlier today. The injuries not only have him being out of action for the next six-to-nine months, but the WWE has reported that he will be stripped of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Rollins was set to face Reigns in a WWE World Heavyweight Championship title match at the Survivor Series in Atlanta on November 22. The WWE plans on holding a tournament for the now-vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship to crown a new champion.
The bigger issue in all of this, however, is that Rollins is now added to a long list of stars who are currently out of action—John Cena's still on his hiatus, Randy Orton recently injured his shoulder, Daniel Bryan can't get medically cleared, and Brock Lesnar is just out until they say he can come back. The Wrestling Observer reported that there might be a chance that the WWE will be calling in some big names to supplement the weakened roster.
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[via The Wrestling Observer]
