Bron Breakker picked up the biggest win of his career at Survivor Series. (Credit: Michael Marques/WWE via Getty Images)
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WWE Survivor Series 2025, in the words of WWE CCO Triple H, positioned the men’s WarGames match as the “biggest WarGames” in the company’s storied history.
With just a four-match card in PetCo Park in San Diego, WWE indeed stacked the men’s WarGames bout with most of the company’s top stars. WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk joined forces with former rival CM Punk and the Usos to take on Paul Heyman’s heel squad consisting of Brock Lesnar, Bronson Reed, Bron Breakker, Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul.
At stake, nothing concrete in the short-term, but WWE’s creative team reportedly planned on using the men’s WarGames match at WWE Survivor Series 2025 to set up the WrestleMania 42 despite that bout being nearly half a year away.
WWE Survivor Series 2025 Results for Men’s WarGames Match
WWE Survivor Series 2025 boasted one of the most star-studded men’s WarGames match in history, and the youngest star in the bout emerged with a massive victory.
In a star-studded match that was easily the highlight of an underwhelming overall PLE, the heel team ultimately prevailed with a huge win. The finish of the bout came when a masked mystery man attacked CM Punk, allowing the upstart Bron Breakker to get the win for his team and gave himself some much-needed momentum in the early stages of WrestleMania season.
Here are the biggest highlights from Team Heyman’s victory at WWE Survivor Series 2025, the last PLE stop on the road to the 2026 Royal Rumble:
- CM Punk entered first and faced off with Bron Breakker, the heel side’s first entrant. Breakker dominated much of the first five minutes until the No. 3 entrant, Drew McIntyre, made his way to the ring and immediately went after Punk. McIntyre quickly blasted Punk with a Claymore kick, but there can be no pins until all 10 wrestlers have entered the match.
- Cody Rhodes entered fourth, and McIntyre prevented him from entering through the gate so Rhodes climbed up to the top and leaped off onto McIntyre with a big crossbody block followed by a Cody Cutter on Breakker. Rhodes accidentally hit Punk, who has somehow been busted open and is bleeding from the forehead. Rhodes and Punk teamed up to hit McIntyre with a Hart Attack double team.
- Punk and Rhodes hit a Doomsday Device onto Breakker, who landed terribly on his neck and head. They teamed up with some Dusty Rhodes-esque jabs on McIntyre until Logan Paul entered at No. 5. Paul grabbed a steel chair from under the ring and nailed Rhodes, then hit him with a reverse powerbomb before taking out Punk with a leap over the top rope.
- Paul climbed to the top, and Rhodes followed. They exchanged punches, but Breakker nailed Rhodes with a chair shot to the leg. The sixth entrant, Jimmy Uso, smashed Breakker with the steel door and pulled a table from under the ring. He hit McIntyre and Breaker with super kicks, then nailed Paul with a Samoan Drop and followed that up with a splash on Paul and Breakker before McIntyre demolished him with a Claymore Kick.
- Breakker hit a lightning-quick Frankensteiner on Rhodes. Moments later, Bronson Reed entered at No. 7. and immediately destroyed Punk, Jimmy and Rhodes with a trio of Tsunami splashes. Rhodes is busted open as well.
- Jimmy unleashed a flurry of superkicks before being taken out by Reed. Jey Uso made his entrance as the eighth man in the match and superkicked Reed. He and his brother Jimmy followed that up with a trio of tandem superkicks and a 1D on Paul. Jey then called for his entrance music to play again as the crowd went berserk. While Jey danced along with his song on top of the cage, Brock Lesnar’s music hit and immediately changed the atmosphere inside PetCo Park.
- Lesnar immediately laid out the Usos and suplexed both Rhodes and Punk, then tossed them into the cage. Lesnar easily hit a pair of F5s on Jimmy and Punk, followed by one on Rhodes and then Jey. Rhodes fought back, but Lesnar quickly suplexed him and then began attacking the face team with a chair. Roman Reigns then made his entrance as the tenth and final entrant of WarGames.
- Lesnar left the cage to confront Reigns during his entrance but was met with a Superman punch by Reigns. Note: The heel team will not be disqualified for Lesnar leaving the cage because the match hadn’t officially started. Reigns went for a Superman punch but Lesnar avoided it and slammed Reigns through the announce table with a monstrous F5.
- Lesnar tossed Reigns into the ring so that the match would officially start. He hit Reigns with an F5 and went for the pin, but Rhodes broke it up. Punk hit Lesnar with an F5, and Rhodes hit him with a Cross Rhodes. Paul broke up the pin attempt and Heyman slid the brass knuckles to Paul.
- Paul took out Rhodes and Jimmy with a pair of vicious punches. Reigns wrecked Paul with a spear, grabbed the brass knuckles and hit Reed with a Superman punch with the knuckles. Then, he did the same to McIntyre. Reigns faced off with Breakker and speared him.
- Lesnar went to F5 Jey, but Reigns speared him through a table. Breakker then speared Jimmy and Jey back-to-back. McIntyre low-blowed Rhodes, then Breakker speared Rhodes. Punk picked up Breakker for a GTS, but Paul saved him. Punk then nailed Paul with a GTS, just as a mystery man wearing a hoodie entered the match by climbing the cage.
- The mystery man kicked Punk and delivered a Stomp, suggesting that it was Seth Rollins, but never showed his face. Breakker then ran the ropes and dismantled Punk with a spear to get the win for the heel team.
The loss for the babyface side at WWE Survivor Series marks the first time that Reigns and the Usos have ever lost a WarGames match.
WWE Survivor Series 2025 Results: Order of Entrants for Men’s WarGames Match
Below is the full order of Entrants for the men’s WarGames match at WWE Survivor Series 2025:
- CM Punk
- Bron Breakker
- Drew McIntyre
- Cody Rhodes
- Logan Paul
- Jimmy Uso
- Bronson Reed
- Jey Uso
- Brock Lesnar
- Roman Reigns
WWE Survivor Series 2025 Results: What’s Next for CM Punk, Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes?
Paul Heyman called WWE Survivor Series 2025 an “infomercial” for next year’s WrestleMania 42. The men’s WarGames match, meanwhile, was reportedly set to tease the main event of that highly anticipated show.
In a blockbuster match with ten of WWE’s biggest stars, it was absolutely inevitable that the WarGames bout would determine not just one or two but several storyline directions for numerous stars in the bout. In reality, however, there are more questions than answers coming out of Survivor Series.
WWE booked this match so that the likes of Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes and Brock Lesnar don’t necessarily have clearer creative path than they did before Survivor Series. The appearance of the mystery attacker, suggested to be Rollins, also was used as a way to keep open the possibility of Rollins returning in time for WrestleMania.
Original creative plans had called for Rollins to face Reigns in the WrestleMania 42 main event, but after undergoing shoulder surgery, Rollins’ WrestleMania status is up in the air. Still, WWE is keeping its options up so that Rollins vs. Reigns isn’t completely off the table.
For now, the immediate paths of Punk, Rhodes and Reigns isn’t clear, but that ending very much suggested that Reigns will face one of these two stars at WrestleMania 42. It all just depends upon the status of Rollins. Still, Survivor Series demonstrated that Royal Rumble and WrestleMania season will revolve around these four stars, even with Rollins off TV.
WWE Survivor Series 2025 was not perfectly booked by any means and while significant questions loom large, WWE clearly has a long-term plan for Reigns, Rhodes and Punk that is contingent on Rollins’ availability.