AJ Styles joins those worrying WWE’s wasting Bron Breakker’s potential

Bron Breakker’s loss to Seth Rollins in a steel cage match at Night of Champions brought some grumbling about Breakker’s main roster run from fans, and frustrated fans felt validated when rumors about the former two-time NXT champ being unhappy with his own booking surfaced early this month. That rumor raised the topic’s profile, and led to takes by those of us whose livelihood’s depend on conversations about professional wrestling. And then, “what is WWE doing with Bron?” became an even bigger discussion after the new season of Netflix’s Unreal came out last week. An early episode featured a scene of WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque shooting down a pitch for Breakker to win the 2026 Men’s Royal Rumble match, and takes are really flying now. Enough so that new WWE Performance Center coach AJ Styles himself is expressing concern about how Rick Steiner’s son’s being handled by his bosses at the next level. Styles brought it up on his weekly Phenomenally Retro Podcast.