Bron Breakker wasn’t just frustrated with WWE’s booking—he was trying to get out of it.
For months, fans have questioned why one of WWE’s biggest young stars suddenly lost momentum. From getting stuck in a faction to being pushed into the tag team scene, plenty of people felt Breakker wasn’t being presented like the future main-event player he looked destined to become. According to a new backstage report, Breakker apparently felt the exact same way.
Speaking during a Self Made Session, Self Made Pro revealed that Breakker had grown increasingly frustrated with the direction WWE was taking him earlier this year. He explained that he’d been sitting on the information for months because it was originally shared with him off the record, but can now speak about it publicly.
“I can finally say this. I was not allowed to say this earlier because it was off the record, but now it’s on the record. I can tell you guys publicly, for a fact, that some of what happened with Bron Breakker creatively did frustrate him. Like, Bron Breakker, for a fact, was very frustrated with how a lot of his creative played out early this year.”
According to Self Made Pro, Breakker’s frustration didn’t stop at simply being unhappy backstage. He claims the former NXT Champion actually tried to change his situation by speaking with people inside WWE about moving away from the creative direction he was in.
“I have a scoop. I can tell you for a fact that Bron Breakker has explored his options creatively from the standpoint of pivoting away from this. I can tell you he had conversations with people in the company about ejecting himself from this situation and being put in another situation creatively.”
That’s a pretty eye-opening update considering where Breakker is today. Just a day ago, The Vision walked out of RAW with the WWE World Tag Team Championship after Maxxine Dupri’s shocking heel turn helped the group beat The Street Profits. On the surface, everything looks to be going exactly as planned. Behind the scenes, however, this report paints a very different picture, suggesting Breakker had already been looking for a way out of that creative direction.
The report also comes after Jonathan Coachman publicly blasted WWE’s handling of Breakker, arguing the company has cooled off a future superstar by putting him back into a tag team instead of building him around Paul Heyman as a dominant singles attraction.
Whether anything ultimately changes remains to be seen, but if this report is accurate, it shows Breakker wasn’t content to simply wait for WWE to figure things out. He tried to steer his career in a different direction himself—and that’s a side of this story fans hadn’t heard until now.
Do you think WWE has mishandled Bron Breakker, or is The Vision the right spot for him? Let us know in the comments below.
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