3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Night Of Champions 2026 (Results & Review)

3. Bron Has Been Broken

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2026 has not been a good year for Bron Breakker.

Once considered a can’t-miss, future WrestleMania main-eventer, Breakker has cooled off considerably since taking over the leadership of The Vision after kicking Seth Rollins out of the group.

Bron lost to CM Punk to open the year in a disappointing World Heavyweight Championship match that some said exposed Breakker as not being ready for the main event scene. If he couldn’t hang with a veteran like Punk on a Raw main event, how was he going to close out numerous WrestleManias as Paul Heyman claimed?

From there, Breakker landed on the shelf with an injury that kept him out of WrestleMania 42. He returned to defeat Seth Rollins in a poorly received match at Backlash, and hasn’t sniffed the winner’s purse since then, losing in the King of the Ring quarterfinals, dropping the tag titles to the Street Profits, and falling to Rollins twice, including Saturday’s steel cage match at Night of Champions.

None of these matches have received rave reviews. Breakker isn’t even the most hyped prospect on Raw, having been lapped by Oba Femi as a future world champion. Je’Von Evans is a more eye-popping wrestler. Trick Williams is more charismatic.

All Saturday’s cage match did was reinforce that Bron Breakker is not the guy. He has several very good qualities and certainly shouldn’t be cast aside, but WWE is going to need to figure out a different course for him, because anointing him as the next Next Big Thing isn’t going to work.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.