Triple H has revealed why WWE brought back Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.
One of the most prominent wrestlers of all time, Lesnar’s last appearance for WWE was at SummerSlam in 2023.
Lesnar returned to action even though he was named 44 times in Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE. Lesnar is not a defendant in the lawsuit but had been written out of television due to his alleged involvement.
Triple H explained that it was John Cena’s wish for Lesnar to be involved in SummerSlam as part of Cena’s retirement tour.
After the main event, Lesnar attacked Cena, setting up a potential future match between them.
Speaking at the SummerSlam Post-Show, Triple H said: ‘This is John Cena’s wishlist. John Cena’s… it’s him writing the last chapter of his book, and I think people saw a conversation with us where he said we’d have to screw it up pretty badly to ruin his career.
‘But it’s not about that for me. It’s about John being able to go out the way he wants to go out. To write his chapter. I know what that’s like as a performer. I know what that’s like for everybody to feel that, and I think for John to be able to do what he wants to do.
‘One of the very first things I said to him is ‘Who do you want? And how?’ And we’re working through that.’
Journalist Dave Meltzer told Wrestling Observer Radio: ‘Four weeks ago, WWE Legal cleared him.
‘I do know, everyone figured this out but I can tell you also, factually, that the reason they didn’t do the press conferences was because of this angle.’
Lesnar’s return to action co-incided with WWE taking away live press conferences from members of the local media following premium live events.
In February Lesnar was named in the sex trafficking lawsuit against McMahon.
Ex-WWE CEO McMahon allegedly enticed Lesnar into staying under contract by using former WWE employee Grant as a ‘sexual pawn.’
In 2021, McMahon was embroiled in discussions with Lesnar over a return to WWE when he offered her to the wrestler and told her to create personalized sexual content for a WWE superstar, the complaint alleges.
According to the suit, McMahon shared explicit photos with Lesnar and told Grant: ‘He likes what he sees’. Then, allegedly after Lesnar agreed his new WWE contract, McMahon is said to have sent Grant a message in August 2021, telling her ‘that part of the deal was f***ing U.’
The complaint had previously detailed the allegations but had not named Lesnar, instead citing an anonymous fighter. The Wall Street Journal had previously identified the wrestler in question as Lesnar.
An attorney for McMahon told DailyMail.com: ‘As expected, the proposed amended complaint is nothing more than the latest publicity stunt in an ongoing smear campaign. It is filled with desperate falsehoods from a team that continues to disregard the law and the truth.’
A few months later, McMahon is said to have given Grant’s cellphone number to the WWE star who asked her to send a video of herself urinating. The suit claims that after she did, he called her a ‘b****.’
McMahon is also said to have arranged a meeting between Grant and Lesnar, with a sexual encounter between the pair not taking place as the wrestler was escorted back to his plane intoxicated.
