After completing Summerlam on Sunday evening, WWE has never felt like ownership in TKO. The permanent picture from the first two-night edition of the annual summer event could achieve a shocking return after the main event of Night 2 and John Cena attack moments after Cena lost the undisputed WWE championship to Cody Rhodes.
Lesnar's return was not only shocking because the ten-time world champion of WWE WAR WAR-FAST for two years until the day of the day, especially due to Why He had been gone.
While Lesnar was not mentioned by the law Janel Grant against WWE and former chairman and CEO Vince McMahonclaimed sexual abuse and trade while Grant McMahon's girlfriend and a WWE employee was. McMahon allegedly said Grant that Lesnar would be her next “game comrade”, according to the lawsuit that claimed claims as an instrument in contract negotiations with the wrestler. Lesnar supposedly demanded humiliating videos of sexual nature of Grant, although he did not take part in the apparently arranged sexual encounters twice.
When Lesnar was mentioned in the lawsuit, WWE immediately distanced himself from the former UFC heavyweight champion. On July 15, the former UFC colleague was in heavyweight and the UFC commentator Daniel Cormier said This Lesnar, named in the lawsuit, led him to be included in Tko's “forbidden list”.
Lesnar's return on Sunday evening from the above context could be rejected as a WWE and pursue another “moment” that his creative team apparently seems to prioritize from important events.
Cena's heel transition in the elimination Chamber in February was a “moment” that was wild on social media. However, the subsequent booking around an evil Guy Cena fell flat after the inspiring figure, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, disappeared from WWE programming. With this, CENA appeared 48 hours before playing with Rhodes to a strange, unsolicited baby face curve in “Smackdown”.
However, the context plays a role, and WWE has added a lot to be a 100 % TKO product -even about Lesnar's recording at the Premium -Live event on Sunday.
“WWE: Unreal”, a look behind the scenes of the campaign, debut last Tuesday on Netflix. The reality adjacent show, which was invoiced as the WWE version of the NFLS “Hard Knocks” or “Formula 1: Drive to Survive to Survive”, “framed Paul” triple H “Levesque in the same light as the UFC-CEO Dana White-and Organization controlled.
Both WWE and UFC belong to TKO.
Days after the debut of “Unreal”, Levesque appeared in the White House, where he stood with President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order who re -examined the president's fitness test. Levesque appeared in the video, which was published on social media accounts of the White House, and gave interviews that praised the president while claiming His own world is “not political”.
It was a page directly from White's Playbook. White spoke to Republican on several national conventions, and UFC performs the red carpet for Trump at events with an elaborate entrance than those who are granted the fighter of the transport. Despite these clear connections, White claims that he is apolitical and says he just estimates that Trump was there for him years ago when UFC tried to find venues that would organize his events. Similarly, Levesque pointed out that Trump is a WWE -Hall of Famer and so said: “My hat is to him.”
While UFC has long distorted in a more conservative direction, the professional wrestling landscape has moved to a much more progressive tendency in the past decade. WWE, which relates to itself as a family -friendly product with a PG evaluation, largely followed the example by supporting the fan question for an improved women's department and periods such as Pride Month and Black History Month, while leaning into the variety of his squad. For the first time in recent times, WWE has not recognized this February to recognize the Black History Month.
WWE may want to say that her world is not political, but many of her more committed fans are no longer of the opinion that this is the case.
Hulk Hogan, who appeared at the recent RNC as a vowel supporter, whose Legacy was passed through racismIn his last WWE appearance at the “Monday Night Raw” debut on Netflix on January 6th, almost out of the building. Hogan was supposed to make numerous subsequent appearances with the company, but never return to television. During the Wrestlemania 41 weekend, WWE organized a not a teliobark event with moderated by Tony Hinchcliffe, which occurred in a controversial Trump rally. An attempt to organize a similar Summerlam weekend was allegedly canceled due to the low ticket sales.
Fans in the Metlife Stadium were loud this weekend when the advertising video of Levesques White House trip was shown 1 and night 2 of Summerlam on screens during the night. Michael Cole with the WWE-lead play-by-play man, in addition to the video with the inscription WWE, obliged to “make America fit again”.
Of course, WWE has always been political, since all art is to a certain extent. However, McMahon shifted the total tone of the promotion to the same point that his wife Linda ran for a seat of the United States of the US Senate. The McMahons were significant donors for Trump's three presidential campaigns, and Linda McMahon now serves as Minister of Education. Her daughter Stephanie next to Levesque was present for Linda's greatest moments in Washington, DC,
During the latest media tour of Levesque, which promoted Summerlam, he addressed the complaint against McMahon, in which Lesnar was named.
While the retirement of McMahon and the later fall from his positions in WWE and TKO – also led to a federal investigation, which was dropped in February, shortly after Trump's trucks, the office spoke to the lawsuit in a way that was subsequently returned by Lesnar.
“Everything we can do is to advance and allegations are allegations, right?” Said Levesque. “It is a complicated relationship for everyone in life. Nobody is perfect.”
Levesques statements repeated the way White has been accused of misuse over the years.
WWE did not answer a CBS sports request for comments on Levesques appearance in the White House or Lesnar's return to the company.
WWE avoided discussing Lesnar's return by canceling his standard press conferences after Summerlam, but switching to a format in which superstars and Levesque of talents on the screen and not by media by third-party providers were interviewed. While the correlation in this case may not correspond equally – media members who took part in previous press conferences, the time of the decision was certainly convenient.
Levesque Lesnar's return on the feet of Cena's feet retired in the Summerlam post show.
“For me, this is a kind of wish list from John Cena,” said Levesque. “It is that he writes the last chapter of his book, and I think people saw a conversation with us in which he said we had to grab it quite badly to ruin his career. But it's not about me. It is about John's position to go out as he wants to go out to write his chapter.
“One of the very first things I told him was: 'Who do you want and how?' And we work through that.
When the show was locked on Sunday, Lesnar's return dropped an event with two nights, in which almost all available centimeters of real estate were treated with sponsor logos-a TKO parade, in which WWE programs reflect the appearance of UFC events. Suddenly WWE's “Tko-i-iFide” was completed.