Brock Lesnar under new contract with WWE
Brock Lesnar is under a new contract in his return to WWE.
In the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reports that Lesnar was actually a free agent for a while during his two-year absence from the ring. Lesnar has signed a new contract for limited dates in his return.
“A correction regarding Brock Lesnar. Lesnar actually just signed a new contract to return. He was getting paid on his prior contract long after they stopped using him, but that deal did expire and he actually was a free agent for months until the new deal was signed,” Meltzer wrote. “They couldn’t extend the prior deal due to injury like with others because he wasn’t injured and it was their choice not to use him.”
Lesnar made his WWE return last month, attacking John Cena in an angle that took place at the end of SummerSlam. Lesnar was given the okay to return by WWE legal after having not been used since his name was mentioned in Janel Grant’s lawsuit against Vince McMahon and the company.
The suit — which was filed in January 2024 and remains ongoing — alleges that McMahon sent Lesnar explicit images and videos of Grant and offered Lesnar sex with Grant (which did not ultimately happen) as an incentive of him signing a new WWE contract in 2021. Lesnar is not a defendant in the lawsuit.
Lesnar’s next match will be the first time he’s wrestled since 2023. It’s expected that he’ll be facing John Cena in the main event of WWE’s Wrestlepalooza PLE on September 20. That could become official tonight with Lesnar rumored to appear on SmackDown.
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