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Brock Lesnar is believed to have been pulled from the slate for Royal Rumble over the weekend, and his place on the upcoming Elimination Chamber subsequent month is also in danger as effectively, amid strategies he has been implicated within the intercourse trafficking scandal surrounding former WWE boss Vince McMahon.
After making his wrestling debut means again in 1998, and formally becoming a member of what was then known as the WWF in 2000, Lesnar went on to turn into one of many greatest stars in WWE and one in every of its most profitable rivals. Having left the world of wrestling in 2008 to hitch the UFC, Lesnar returned to his roots in 2012 and, till lately, benefited from a profitable contract that noticed him battle only a handful of instances annually.
Lesnar was rumoured to be returning to the ring over the weekend for WWE’s Royal Rumble on Saturday night time in what would have been a shock look, however that by no means occurred. And now, it appears his bout at Elimination Chamber on the twenty fourth of February might be doubtful, too.
Extra allegations encompass Vince McMahon
This comes after Vince McMahon, the co-founder and former government chairman of WWE, resigned from his place within the organisation amid a lawsuit alleging that he had pressured a former worker, Lanel Grant, into sexual exercise, together with different males within the enterprise.
Particulars emerged due to a report from the Wall Road Journal, wherein an confederate of McMahon’s within the acts was described as a “world-famous athlete and former UFC heavyweight champion with whom WWE was actively attempting to signal a brand new contract.” It’s stated that “folks accustomed to the matter” have named Lesnar because the individual in query.
The allegations confer with an incident in July 2021, when McMahon had “instructed Grant to create personalised sexual content material for a WWE Celebrity.” It’s believed McMahon shared express pictures with the wrestler and gave the person in query Grant’s phone quantity, which led to quite a few troubling messages.
The swimsuit claims McMahon then paid Grant to maintain quiet on the matter as a part of a $3million settlement in trade for signing a nondisclosure settlement in 2022. Grant now claims McMahon didn’t uphold his finish of that association.
Brock Lesnar’s return to WWE scrapped for now
The Beast was meant to be on the Royal Rumble, in addition to the upcoming Elimination Chamber
Lesnar’s involvement is but to be formally confirmed, and, on the time of writing, he has but to reply to requests for feedback. Regardless of not formally being named, the 46-year-old’s rumoured look on the Royal Rumble on Saturday was seemingly scrapped.
As per POST Wrestling, Lesnar was additionally a part of the “upcoming inventive plans” for Elimination Chamber in Perth subsequent month, the place he was to go up in opposition to Dominik Mysterio. Lesnar was changed by Bron Breakker within the males’s Royal Rumble, however it stays to be seen whether or not Breakker might be handed an invite to the Premium Reside Occasion in Perth, too.
The impression this might have on Lesnar’s profession can be appreciable, after all. He was lately tipped by Michael Bisping to be the headline act at UFC 300, too, for a battle with present UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. It will be secure to imagine that any authorized points would stop Lesnar from showing at that occasion in April.
