2 weeks Ago By Josh Nason
WWE WrestleMania 41 night one is officially in the books and Seth Rollins left the three-way main event with Roman Reigns and CM Punk as the winner and also with someone new in his corner: Paul Heyman.As Rollins, Punk and Reigns were laid out in exhaustion in the match’s closing stages, Heyman grabbed a chair and couldn’t figure out who to slide it toward, Reigns or Punk, eventually giving it to Punk. He then got in the ring behind Punk to guide him and low blowed him instead, groveling in anguish at his decision afterward.
Reigns then waffled Punk with the chair before turning his attention to Rollins at Heyman’s instruction. As Reigns loaded up, Heyman gave him a low blow and handed Rollins the chair who then hit Reigns with it followed by a curb stomp, pinning Reigns as Heyman looked on in approval. The two then left together to close the show.
PAUL HEYMAN DID THE UNTHINKABLE! 😲#WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/i4t1QyDLQx— WWE (@WWE) April 20, 2025The match itself was competitive between all three men, spilling to the outside of the ring early on with Rollins and Punk using chairs and trash cans before Reigns flew out of nowhere over the barricade to take both men out.
Rollins looked to have had the match won at one point, countering a spear into a pedigree and hitting a curb stomp for a close nearfall. Later, Punk hit a GTS on Reigns after he accidentally took out Rollins with a spear for his own nearfall. Rollins attempted to align with his former Shield teammate Reigns to take Punk out, but then took Rollins out with a punch and power bombed Punk through an announce table, followed by Rollins through another table.
He then tossed Rollins in the ring, hit a spear, and got his own close nearfall.Punk reversed a Reigns guillotine into the anaconda vice until Rollins got in and ensnared Punk into a sharpshooter. Reigns recovered and got a guillotine choke on Rollins which Rollins countered into a suplex, leading to a Punk curb stomp, GTS and another nearfall.
That was all before the final sequence listed above.**********There was no title on the line, Reigns’ first WrestleMania since the 35th edition in 2019 where he didn’t come in with a championship to defend. For Punk, it was his first WrestleMania main event and first WrestleMania match since 2013’s 29th edition against The Undertaker.
For the first time in years, Punk was accompanied by Heyman (much like he was at 29) as a favor Punk was owed going back to last November’s Survivor Series WarGames match. Rollins, of course, had his issues with both men from in-ring feuds to past alliances.Now, things have changed for all four men again.
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