Lesnar/WWE lawsuit update

[Guest karlitoapple]

Brock Lesnar might be using "The Verdict" to finish off his matches in Japan, but his legal battle with WWE is far from over, reports PWInsider.com

 

WWE's lawyers filed a temporary restraining order on 12/6 to prevent its former wrestler from continuing his work with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Lesnar recently won the promotion's title and was scheduled to work several upcoming shows, including NJPW's Tokyo Dome card on 1/4/06.

 

WWE also asked the court to prevent Lesnar from working for any other professional wrestling organization and from furthering his relationship with NJPW.

 

Lesnar signed a settlement agreement with WWE in 2004 that enabled him to leave the company to pursue a career in football. In exchange, he agreed not to work for a competing organization.

 

The Stamford-based wrestling company also said that Lesnar verbally agreed to return to WWE in July 2005, only to later meet with Simon Inoki about a deal with New Japan. WWE learned during Lesnar's November deposition that he backed out of his verbal agreement after signing with Inoki International; in the same deposition, Lesnar admitted that he decided to work for New Japan prior to receiving the court's decision.

 

New Japan was also a target of WWE, who complained of NJPW's calling Lesnar a "former WWE champion." WWE left the door open to take legal action against New Japan.

 

The new developments pushed the settlement conference, which was scheduled for next week, back to 2006.

 

Not sure if this belongs here or the WWE section. Here's a site with the info

 

http://www.panamajackcapri.com/supporttro.pdf

[The Buzz 0]

I'd be more worried about putting out a good product then messing with a guy who's working a product that maybe 500,000 people in the US will ever see, and that might be me being generous about the number of people who buy Puro in the US.

[Placebo Effect 0]

I'd be more worried about putting out a good product then messing with a guy who's working a product that maybe 500,000 people in the US will ever see, and that might be me being generous about the number of people who buy Puro in the US.

 

Might be?

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

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As of 8:30 p.m., or less than eight hours away from his scheduled match in Osaka against Manabu Nakanishi, U.S. District court in Connecticut has not upheld WWE's request for a temporary restraining order.

 

The WWE was attepting to stop Lesnar's matches with Nakanishi very late tonight, Yuji Nagata very late tomorrow night and a third match on January 4th at the Tokyo Dome against Kazuyuki Fujita.

 

It seems highly unlikely given the time frame and it being the weekend, that any restraining order would stop the weekend matches from taking place.

 

To grant the order, the WWE needed to prove it would suffer irreparable harm if Lesnar were to perform in the weekend matches. Such an assertion is laughable on the surface.

 

And from SSS:

 

The morning press is alight with what I speculated last night in the comment thread for yesterday's show. Yomiuri Sports said it in an incredibly matter-of-factly way: "It is all but official that IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar, will join New Japan Professional Wrestling in February, 2006". Lesnar has apparently agreed to a contract blueprint and will sign it early next year with other wrestlers. Like Josh Barnett, this would make him different from other foreigners; Brock would be a fully contracted affiliated employee of New Japan, representing them in all of his ventures. If this is officially done, Brock will become the first ever WWE graduate to join New Japan. Simon Inoki has nominated Lesnar to be the first foreigner to become New Japan's true ace in history, and said that although some wrestlers will likely leave at the end of January (whether by their own intention or company restructuring; Tarzan Yamamoto persists in saying that as many as 1/3 of wrestlers could be cut), New Japan could gain one that would blow all of that away. Simon also announced that if this contract is signed, Brock will appear on New Japan tours and be built into programs with native wrestlers. Fujinami said that Lesnar has the sort of power that no one else does, and that if he is made the ace of New Japan, fans will pay to watch him wrestle. There is a feeling now that the (planned) 1/4 main event will no longer have two "outsiders" in it, only one, although if history tells us one thing, it is to not start the party before the guest arrives. There has still been no acknowledgement whatsoever of WWE's attempts to stop Brock from appearing in New Japan, and as far as I know, he will wrestle in six hours time.

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To grant the order, the WWE needed to prove it would suffer irreparable harm if Lesnar were to perform in the weekend matches. Such an assertion is laughable on the surface.

 

Oh man, only a McMahon.. only a McMahon.. LMAO

[Fökai 0]

If New Japan hadn't booked every gaijin in the last decade as the "unstoppable foreign monster", people would really believe how incredible Lesnar actually is. From the way he came into the business, to how quickly he picked everything up, to the level of workrate he had produced that would take others years to perfect. Instead, he's going to be lost in the scene and unappreciated for his time spent there.

 

I hope I'm wrong.

[Bruce Blank 0]

New Japan was also a target of WWE, who complained of NJPW's calling Lesnar a "former WWE champion." WWE left the door open to take legal action against New Japan.

Oh man now they're REALLY in trouble.

 

They referred to his past - yes let's sue them for stating a FACT GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

 

how utterly pathetic

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

Oh man now they're REALLY in trouble.

 

They referred to his past - yes let's sue them for stating a FACT GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

 

how utterly pathetic

 

And you know something. That statement is funny on SO many levels.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Yeah, that's the part I don't get. If they're mad about that, WWE should sue pretty much every indy fed in North America for billing people as "former WWE superstar" or whatever.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

CRZ has some stuff hosted in regards to Brock vs. WWE

 

I haven't read it, but some of you might find it interesting.