Paul Heyman Thinks Bron Breakker Is Going To Come Back ‘Hungrier Than Ever,’ Discusses Speaking To Him Every Day

WWE Hall of Famer Paul Heyman joined Busted Open Radio this week to discuss The Vision’s Bron Breakker being sidelined due to his hernia injury, which required emergency surgery. Heyman revealed that he talks to Breakker every day, and expects him to come back “hungrier than ever.” Below are some highlights:

Paul Heyman on How Bron Breakker Will Come Out of His Current Injury

“He’s going to come out hungrier than ever because now he understands what it’s like to miss out. And that’s just going to be something for him that’s going to **** with his head and **** with his head to the point that when he comes back, he’s going to appreciate this even more than he already does. There is never the right time to get injured. It’s always, ‘Oh man, of all days to get injured, this would be the worst time to get injured, and that’s the day you get injured. It would be like breaking your [Bully Ray’s] ankle right before our first pay-per-view or during the first pay-per-view. It’s the same thing. It’s of all the times to break your ankle, that was the worst time for you to break your ankle. It’s the same thing for Bron Breakker, headed into a ridiculously enormous spotlight at WrestleMania, and then comes this hernia that he aggravated beyond description to the point where they had to have emergency surgery. So, what’s going to happen is that every day that he’s home right now, it’s eating him up alive. Great. I want that for him.”

On Why He Talks To Bron Breakker Every Day

“Because day one is the easiest cuz that’s when everybody does it, and that’s when everybody puts their tribute, and you know — Anthony Jeselnik has the absolute most brilliant comedy routine about thoughts and prayers. How on the day of a tragedy, everybody goes online and says, ‘My thoughts and prayers. My thoughts and prayers with the victims. My thoughts and prayers with all these people,’ and his whole thing is you’re saying it for yourself, like notice me. Notice me with my thoughts and my prayers. And everybody has their thoughts and their prayers and their tributes and their well-wishes day one. But where are you day eight? What happens day nine when it’s not 50 people tweeting about you, posting Instagram stories about you, and posting about you and talking about you? What happens when you’re not the topic of conversation? And those are the days where you sit there, and you say, ‘I let everybody down. I let myself down. I let my family down.’

“I call him every day to let him know to let them know it’s like, ‘Hey, you’re one day closer to coming back, and here we go.’ And it’s going to be time. He also has a great support system at home. His father is a tough father, but a loving father. His uncle Scotty is an insane human being, but he’s a loving uncle. He’s a tough, loving uncle and an uncle that employs tough love, but he’s there, and he’s there for Bron. So, he has those two on top of him, saying, ‘All right, let’s go. Let’s get ready. Okay, you’re getting back. What day are you getting back? Let’s get back a day early. Let’s get back two days earlier. So, he has a lot of inspiration and motivation around him, but just from outside the Rechsteiner family, I want him to hear from somebody that says, ‘You’re on our minds. You’re on you’re in our thoughts. You don’t need to be in our prayers cuz you got this covered.'”

Breakker was originally expected to face Seth Rollins, who is also recovering from an injury, at WrestleMania 42, although the match was never announced. It’s not yet known if Breakker’s injury will force him to miss WrestleMania 42, but based on Heyman’s comments, that appears to be the case.

It was also recently reported in The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Breakker and Rollins are “working their ***es off” in their injury rehab to return to WWE “as soon as they can.”

If using any of the above quotes, please credit Busted Open Radio, with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.