Report on why Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed weren’t in the WWE RAW battle royal

After winning a battle royal on the October 20th 2025 edition of WWE RAW, Jey Uso is scheduled to face CM Punk for the vacant world heavyweight title at Saturday Night’s Main Event. Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed did not participate in the battle royal.

According to Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com, the belief is that Breakker and Reed were removed from the battle royal by General Manager Adam Pearce to keep them positioned as strong heels. Meltzer stated the following…

“Breakker is expected to end up as champion, but they have a plan of how and when to execute it, and it happening on an SNME show which is a Peacock exclusive and likely won’t do big viewing numbers was decided to not be the time or the place. So if Breakker wasn’t going to win, there was no reason to put him in and get eliminated.”