WWE: Bronson Reed Provides Broken Foot Injury Update & To Miss WrestleMania 41, Logan Paul Set for WWE Raw Netflix Premiere, Triple H on WWE RAW on Netflix to Have Less Commercial Time for Now

Jan 6, 2025

Bronson Reed Broken Foot Injury Update – Reed Expected to Miss WrestleMania 41

As noted before, Bronson Reed has been out of action for WWE since this past November due to a broken foot injury and underwent surgery this past December.

Reed provided an update on Sunday on Twitter clarifying his injury situation and stated that he is currently expected to miss WrestleMania 41.

“Let’s clear up some things.
Dirt sheets report ankle fracture or injury. I unfortunately smashed my talus bone completely in half, I had it surgically repaired with screws and fragments taken out. Also had some bone marrow taken from my hip and put into my foot.
Now this means I won’t be at Raw netflix Premiere, don’t expect a rumble surprise, and the biggest loss is no mania.
Please keep up with me on social media at this time. Understand I’ve had a serious injury, undergone serious surgery, and have serious implications from that.
It’s not merely a fracture!”

Let’s clear up some things.
Dirt sheets report ankle fracture or injury.
I unfortunately smashed my talus bone completely in half, I had it surgically repaired with screws and fragments taken out. Also had some bone marrow taken from my hip and put into my foot.

Now this means I…
— BIG BRONSON REED (@BRONSONISHERE) January 6, 2025

Logan Paul Announced for WWE RAW Premiere Show on Netflix

WWE recently announced that Logan Paul will be making an appearance on Monday’s WWE RAW premiere show on Netflix at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.

Former #USChampion @LoganPaul returns tomorrow night on the #WWERaw @netflix premiere!#WWERawonNetflix

📍 @IntuitDome
🎟️ https://t.co/HiKP81qBMM pic.twitter.com/DVtN7GFbsx
— WWE (@WWE) January 6, 2025

This will be Paul’s first appearance in WWE since this past August’s SummerSlam 2024 event.

Current card for January 6, 2025 WWE RAW show:

WWE Women’s World Championship Last Woman Standing match – Rhea Ripley vs. Liv Morgan (c)
Tribal Combat match – Roman Reigns vs. Solo Sikoa
CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins
Jey Uso vs. Drew McIntyre
John Cena to appear
Logan Paul to appear
The Rock to appear

Triple H Comments on WWE RAW on Netflix to Have Less Commercial Time At Least for Now

A recent episode of The Press Box podcast featured WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Levesque’s thoughts about what WWE and Netflix were thinking regarding having commercials breaks during WWE RAW shows on the service.

“Look, [laughs], my guess on their part would be money is part of this. They’re paying us a lot of money. They’re in the business of making money, so they’ve got to have ad times and they’ve fit to sell things, even though it’s a subscription product. There’s other factors that go into that for them. For us, to some degree, it’s a funny thing. Sometimes, they tell us, for whatever reason, ‘Hey, you can have the entire first hour commercial-free.’ I know that nobody out there that watches the show, unless they do television, will understand this because they hear this and think, ‘That’s the most ridiculous thing ever.’ Commercial-free live television is incredibly difficult. People don’t understand that. To be able to go from, this match ends, you gotta get them out of the arena, you gotta go backstage, you gotta go to this other stuff, you gotta be ready to go on every single thing, in real time, in that moment. If something crashes, if somebody gets injured, there’s no place to go. There’s no commercial to go to. There’s no, ‘Hey, we can go to this.’ You can only go to so many backstage segments. If they’re not ready to go, something happens and you gotta get out in the ring, if no one’s ready to go, ‘Alright, just run a package or something.’ It’s incredibly difficult to do. So having those breaks in there to some degree is helpful. There’s less commercial time. It’s going to be more manageable, at least for now. Anything can change, but at least for now. I also think this will be a work on progress for us. The formatting is slightly different here. How we work with things is slightly different, so it’s gonna take us a minute also to get to where we feel comfortable and we feel smooth getting in and out of everything and going to where we need to go. But I think it’ll be a better experience for people. It’s just a part of what we do. It makes me laugh whenever people say, ‘There’s so many commercials this week.’ Well, same exact amount of commercials we had last week. I’ll give you that maybe we didn’t do as good of a job of managing the time in between the commercials, but it’s the same amount of commercials. We didn’t change anything. The format’s the same.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com