Bronson Reed Has Multiple Broken Ribs and a Lacerated Kidney, F4W Reports

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.@Obaofwwe is HERE and he took out @BRONSONISHERE 😱 pic.twitter.com/k595gXCJgJ
— WWE (@WWE) November 7, 2026

WWE · X · Nov. 7, 2026. The promotion’s post shows Femi taking Reed out during the World Tag Team Championship match at Crown Jewel. View WWE’s original post.

Bryan Alvarez of F4W/WON said Wednesday that Bronson Reed’s injuries from WWE Crown Jewel are several broken ribs and a lacerated kidney, and that an earlier account of a punctured lung was wrong. Joseph Currier published the update for F4W on Nov. 11. Fightful Select reported Tuesday that Reed was still in Saudi Arabia, with WWE medical staff and a top international executive in the region staying with him.

Key Takeaways

Alvarez, in a Nov. 11 F4W exclusive written by Joseph Currier, said the injuries are several broken ribs and a lacerated kidney, and that Reed does not have a punctured lung.
Reed did not wrestle at Crown Jewel on Nov. 7 in Riyadh, but he was involved in the World Tag Team Championship match, when Oba Femi threw him off the stage. Our results recap covers that finish.
On the following Raw, WWE said Reed was hospitalized after that spot. The company has not itself confirmed the specific diagnoses in Alvarez’s report.
Fightful Select, in a Nov. 10 report, said Reed was not on the flight home and remains in Saudi Arabia, with medical personnel and WWE’s top international executive in the region on site.
Reed had only just returned in September after spending several months out with a torn biceps.

The Full Story

What Alvarez Reported

Currier’s F4W report, published Nov. 11, quotes Alvarez directly: “Bronson Reed actually has multiple broken ribs and a lacerated kidney, not a punctured lung. Here is hoping to a very speedy recovery.” That note was meant to clarify F4W’s own report a day earlier, which had described broken ribs and a punctured lung. The diagnoses are Alvarez’s. WWE has not issued its own medical statement beyond what was said on Raw.

The Crown Jewel Spot

Reed was not booked in a match at Crown Jewel, held Nov. 7 at The Venue (ANB Arena) in Riyadh. He came out during the World Tag Team Championship bout, in which his Vision teammates Bron Breakker and Austin Theory lost the titles to Penta and Je’Von Evans. After Reed got involved, Oba Femi came in and threw him off the stage. Our Crown Jewel results described the landing as going through a table; WWE’s Raw announcement later said he was sent onto an area of production equipment. WWE posted about the spot the same afternoon, writing that Femi “is HERE and he took out” Reed. That original post is embedded above.

Still in Saudi Arabia

On Raw the next night, WWE told viewers Reed had been hospitalized because of that attack. Some viewers took the line as part of the storyline. Fightful Select, in a report summarized on Nov. 10 by Jeremy Lambert, said the injury was genuine and that Reed had not been on the flight home. “Bronson Reed remains in Saudi Arabia after sustaining an injury. WWE has top international executive and a member of their medical team on-site with him,” the Select report said, as quoted by Lambert. Currier’s earlier F4W write-up of that same Select report added that WWE was making sure Reed received “VIP treatment.” Fightful Select did not itself specify multiple broken ribs and a lacerated kidney; that wording comes from Alvarez.

What Comes Next

A return date has not been reported, and we are not going to guess at one. This is the latest setback in a rough stretch for The Vision. Reed came back only in September, at Sunday Night’s Main Event, after a distal biceps tear earlier this year. Logan Paul, another member of the group, is still out with a torn triceps, according to Currier. More wrestling coverage is on our Wrestling page.