Before Roman Reigns won the Royal Rumble to earn a title shot at WrestleMania 42, WWE had plans for Bron Breakker to get the biggest victory of his career in the 30-man match. A lot of the WrestleMania plans were adjusted to Seth Rollins' shoulder injury suffered in October that left his status for the marquee event unclear. After Rollins' injury, Reigns and Cody Rhodes became the top two choices to win the Rumble, with Reigns getting the win and going on to defeat Punk for the championship at WrestleMania. There was no Bryan-type figure in this year's Rumble that would lead the crowd to turn against Breakker. Given the injury to Breakker, it wound up maybe working out that he didn't win the Rumble because plans may have had to change again.