Brock Lesnar returned to WWE for the primary time in two years after being named within the bombshell civil sexual lawsuit in opposition to Vince McMahon.
Lesnar's music hit for his beautiful return after Cody Rhodes defeated John Cena to win the Undisputed WWE championship in the primary occasion of Night time 2 at SummerSlam at MetLife Stadium on Sunday evening.
Lesnar, whose final look was at SummerSlam in 2023, delivered his F5 finisher to a shocked Cena to arrange a match later this yr through the “Peacemaker” star's retirement run.
It's the previous UFC heavyweight champion's first time on the corporate's programming since his title got here up in allegations made in opposition to the previous WWE boss, McMahon, made by ex-employee Janel Grant. She accuses him of sexual assault and intercourse trafficking.
Grant filed the swimsuit in January 2024. The unique criticism didn't embody Lesnar's title, solely referencing a “world-famous athlete and former UFC Heavyweight Champion” whom McMahon was making an attempt to signal on the time. Lesnar, who just isn't a defendant within the case, was formally named by Grant in federal courtroom in an amended criticism in February.
Grant accused McMahon of asking her to create “customized sexual content material” for Lesnar in July 2021 throughout his contract negotiations. She additionally alleges McMahon flew Lesnar to Connecticut in 2021 for a sexual encounter that ended up not occurring.
McMahon's lawyer, Jessica Rosenberg, known as Grant naming Lesnar within the swimsuit, a “publicity stunt” in February.
“As anticipated, the proposed amended criticism is nothing greater than the newest publicity stunt in an ongoing smear marketing campaign,” McMahon lawyer Jessica Rosenberg stated in an announcement to ESPN on the time. “It's full of determined falsehoods from a crew that continues to ignore the regulation and the reality.”
Lesnar has been persona non grata round WWE since then, together with his merchandise being taken down from WWE Store and his playable character, together with McMahon's, being faraway from the WWE 2K24 online game. Lesnar was rumored to be returning on the 2024 Royal Rumble, however the look was scrapped after the information of the lawsuit broke
The lawsuit accuses McMahon of inflicting her bodily hurt together with his fists and different objects, together with intercourse toys, together with locking her in a WWE workplace earlier than he and one other WWE government took turns sexually assaulting her. She additionally accused McMahon within the lawsuit of forcing her into sexual relationships to maintain her job.
McMahon has denied the allegations in opposition to him,
On the time, his authorized crew known as the lawsuit “replete with lies, obscene made-up cases that by no means occurred, and a vindictive distortion of the reality.”
