3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (12 January - Results & Review)

2. Breakker Loses Any Composure He Ever Had

WWE Raw The Vision Bron Breakker Adam Pearce
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Bron Breakker accomplished two things with his flying spear to trigger a disqualification in the tag match between The Vision and Penta and Dragon Lee: it set off a chain of events with Raw GM Adam Pearce that was fantastic, and it short-circuited a mediocre tag match less than 10 minutes into the contest.

Breakker had been instructed to stay away from Raw if there was any chance of him doing damage or wreaking havoc, but he ignored the warnings and attacked Penta and Dragon with repeated spears, then got in Pearce’s face while Bronson Reed flattened Penta with a Tsunami. When Pearce went to confront Reed, Bron speared Lee again.

This enraged Pearce to the point where he grabbed Breakker and berated him, which led Bron to put his hands on the GM and shove him into the corner, only for the rest of The Vision to pull the Badass off Pearce.

Later, Pearce announced that Breakker had been suspended indefinitely, which Paul Heyman called a huge mistake… for the GM. Heyman noted that Pearce had put his hands on Breakker first, a rare instance of the heel manager being too clever for the babyface authority figure.

Good, unhinged stuff from Breakker here – which you’d expect after last week’s loss to CM Punk – that sets the table for him to exact revenge on Pearce at some point in the near future as well.

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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.