Bron Breakker Wants To Pursue Surprising Career After WWE Retirement
Bron Breakker loves being a WWE superstar, but he also sees himself competing in something else later in life.
It has been about four years since Bron Breakker made his WWE television debut when the NXT 2.0 re-launch took place. Breakker was immediately pushed as a main eventer in NXT, as he’s physically imposing and a second-generation wrestler, being the son of WWE Hall of Famer Rick Steiner and nephew of Hall of Famer Scott Steiner.
After a successful NXT run as the top guy on the brand, Bron Breakker moved to Raw and became the Intercontinental Champion in his first year on the brand.
In his current role on Raw, Breakker is part of the top heel group with Mr. Money in the Bank Seth Rollins, Bronson Reed, and Paul Heyman, who Breakker considers an advocate of sorts behind the scenes, as well as on camera.
Away from the ring, the former football player Breakker has become a big fan of fishing, as he explained to WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker on his Six Feet Under podcast.
“I’ve been fishing since I can remember. It’s something that’s started to pick up more recently. I’ve gotten into fishing tournaments now. I grew up on the water. I started out fishing from the shore, and then my dad had this old john boat. I think he used to duck hunt out of it back in the day. We still have it—1980s Evinrude motor on the back. One pole, one pull.
I fished off that boat all the way until I went off to school. Then I kind of took a break from fishing for a bit. I hadn’t really done any fishing in Florida before, except for a couple deep sea trips.”
Bron Breakker And NXT’s Tony D’Angelo Are Fishing Buddies
As he continued, Bron Breakker discussed buying a boat while also becoming close friends with NXT’s Tony D’Angelo, who is a fishing buddy of Breakker’s.
“Later, me and Tony D’Angelo from NXT became buddies at the Performance Center, and we started fishing here and there—just off the bank. But I remember thinking, ‘This is a whole different kind of fishing down here. We need a boat. I can’t do the shoreline stuff anymore.’ So we started off with a john boat and did that for a little while.
Eventually, I wanted to explore the bigger lakes and go out further, so I bought a boat. We started with an older one because, while I had some experience running motors on the water, I’d never driven an outboard connected to a dashboard. So we got something used and beat it up pretty good. I beached it a couple times flying around, just learning and figuring it out.
We expected to mess up a bit at first—learning how to drive a boat, fix things, just handle everything. After that first boat, we sold it. I wrestled at SummerSlam, and the next day I went straight to a local dealership. They had a boat I liked, I saw it, and I just said, ‘This is it.’”
The 27-year-old Bron Breakker will likely be a fixture in WWE for the next 10-15 years and could be a future WrestleMania main eventer, but he knows that after his done in the ring, fishing will be there for him.
“Eventually, you know, I’m—I’m obviously—wrestling is priority number one. You know, fishing’s a hobby. You know, we get to have a little bit of competition in it. It’s fun. Maybe one day, when I decide to hang up the boots, and, you know, maybe my body’s quitting on me or whatever the situation is—I want to fish professionally when I’m done.”