{"id":159322,"date":"2026-04-18T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=159322"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:20:38","slug":"bron-breakker-makes-shocking-return-at-wrestlemania-42-rekindling-rivalry-with-seth-rollins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/18\/bron-breakker-makes-shocking-return-at-wrestlemania-42-rekindling-rivalry-with-seth-rollins\/","title":{"rendered":"Bron Breakker Makes Shocking Return at WrestleMania 42, Rekindling Rivalry With Seth Rollins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/18\/wwe-wrestlemania-42-results-night-1-4-18-26-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">WWE WrestleMania 42<\/a>, Gunther and Seth Rollins wanted to prove to themselves that they had <em>it<\/em> when it came to the &#8220;Showcase of the Immortals.&#8221; The bout between the two is one of the most physical we&#8217;ve seen in the history of the &#8220;Granddaddy of them All.&#8221; Both men battered each other from the jump, even when the bell hadn&#8217;t rung yet. When they finally got into the ring, all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Rollins took it to Gunther, hitting multiple Stomps and Pedigrees, even a Buckle Bomb that could&#8217;ve put him away in the early part of this match. Unfortunately, Gunther would come out victorious, but it was because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/18\/paige-and-brie-bella-become-andnew-wwe-womens-tag-team-champions-at-wrestlemania-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">returning<\/a> Bron Breakker. Seth Rollins had Gunther dead to rights, hitting a Pedigree on the announcer&#8217;s table, followed up by a huge Stomp.<\/p>\n<p>When Rollins was ready to bring back Gunther into the ring and finish this whole thing off, like a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/18\/randy-orton-unleashes-on-cody-rhodes-at-wrestlemania-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Missile no one ever saw coming<\/a>, Bron Breakker would sprint full speed and break Seth Rollins in half with a crushing Spear. Gunther would not care how he won, putting Seth Rollins in the Sleeper Hold, making him pass out.<\/p>\n<p>Gunther continues his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/18\/becky-lynch-becomes-andnew-womens-i-c-champion-in-controversial-fashion-at-wrestlemania-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">reign of dominance over WWE<\/a>, while Seth Rollins lies motionless, with his WrestleMania dream destroyed. Bron Breakker was on his way back up the ramp, but then he saw blood, and from the top of the WrestleMania 42 stage, Bron Breakker would once again make a run for it, hitting a nuclear Spear on Seth Rollins, almost running most of the WrestleMania venue to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 610px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"a61405551f80e72f675225f083759bb9\" image-id=\"fwuQxi5HOxeI\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 2667px; aspect-ratio: 2667\/4000;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p>Once Bron Breakker was done, he was met on the stage by the &#8220;Oracle&#8221; of The Vision, Paul Heyman, as they exchanged a hug. Bron Breakker was the man who kicked Seth Rollins out of The Vision, and now, he&#8217;s the man who <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/18\/paige-and-brie-bella-become-andnew-wwe-womens-tag-team-champions-at-wrestlemania-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">cost him his WrestleMania moment<\/a>. What a<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/18\/bianca-belair-makes-grand-return-at-wwe-wrestlemania-42-makes-major-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> grand return<\/a> for the &#8220;Bad Ass of WWE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WWE Universe, we&#8217;re going into the second half of 2026 with a bang as Seth Rollins will not let this one go, looking to exact revenge on Bron Breakker after what he did at WrestleMania 42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At WWE WrestleMania 42, Gunther and Seth Rollins wanted to prove to themselves that they had it when it came to the &#8220;Showcase of the Immortals.&#8221; The bout between the two is one of the most physical we&#8217;ve seen in the history of the &#8220;Granddaddy of them All.&#8221; Both men battered each other from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":156341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,2192,4,3],"tags":[7986,8238,76,9655],"class_list":["post-159322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-bron-breakker","tag-gunther","tag-seth-rollins","tag-wwe-wrestlemania-42"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159381,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159322\/revisions\/159381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}