Brock Lesnar's Return Update

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This is the official thread for all news and rumours on the return of Brock Lesnar. Check back here if you're a fan of Brock as all related news shall be posted around the clock.

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After WWE’s constant promotion of Big Show’s F5 from Armageddon, rumors are spreading that a Brock Lesnar return is closer than anyone would have guessed. The PPV truly seemed to support the quote from last week that indicated Lesnar was “considering a comeback.”

At this time, no inside word is available on Lesnar’s status, but it should be clear by now that the football move was not a successful option for the former WWE champion. Thus, one has to believe a return is possible, especially with two of WWE’s biggest annual PPVs on the horizon.

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New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced that former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar will be appearing as a guest at the 1/4/05 Tokyo Dome show.

NJPW has a habit of making claims to have major guests, such as Mike Tyson a few years ago, and then it never seems to happen. However, when/if Brock Lesnar makes his appearance, it would be the first pro wrestling appearance since losing to Bill Goldberg at WrestleMania XX

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-Brock Lesnar has been calling Vince McMahon on a weekly basis, but Vince has yet to return any of Brock’s messages sources say. Vince may be trying to ice Lesnar and let him know who has the power where these negotiations lie.

Lesnar has a non-compete clause which does not allow him to join any other fighting organization including TNA, MMA, K-1 and others. Basically Lesnar has not bargaining power when it comes to the WWE at this point. If Lesnar is brought back for a return, many believe he will have to re-earn the respect of his cohorts and Vince McMahon, because of the way he left. He would likely have to do the job to the likes of JBL, Batista, Cena and others just to prove himself again.

Many also believe that Vince will eventually sit down with Lesnar and discuss a possible return because of what’s “best for the company.” Lesnar hopes its sooner rather than later, because his finances are dwindling already.

There are also reports that Lesnar would like to work part-time, to which WWE would probably not agree. Lesnar want’s to work part-time because it was the travel that drove him out of WWE in the first place. This could be a large hangup as far as the two sides reaching an agreement.

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Former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar arrived in Tokyo, Japan this morning and on his arm was former WWE star Rena “Sable” Mero, Lesnar’s fiancé.

As announced last week New Japan Pro Wrestling will have Brock Lesnar in attendance at the Tokyo Dome show tomorrow.

Lesnar told Japanese reporters that he is really thinking about fighting for New Japan, K-1 and PRIDE, but will only be a spectator for now until his WWE contract expires in March. He went on to say that he “may do something” at tomorrow’s Tokyo Dome show.

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*According to PWTorch.com, Brock Lesnar has not been able to get past Vince McMahon’s secretary when trying to call the WWE chairman about a return. He has made a number of calls, but negotiations up to this point have not gone anywhere.

Although WWE did not have a problem with Lesnar’s decision to leave to play football, they were less than satisfied with his interview remarks that seemed to put down WWE and pro wrestling in general. Thus, the decision to bring Lesnar back has some hurdles and will not be as easy as most suggested at the time the former champion left the company.

Additionally, many feel the fact that Lesnar’s failure to even make the practice squad of an NFL team severely hurt his leverage in return negotiations. WWE would have seized on the opportunity to bring a successful NFL player back, but now that Lesnar has gone from a top WWE wrestler to a failed NFL hopeful, he is not even as big a star as when he left the company. For a WWE return to occur, his attitude would need to change and accept that he does not have as much bargaining power as he did before leaving.

Lesnar was also not a serious financial draw, so WWE does not see a return as imminent. While most believe a return to the company is inevitable, many backstage believe Lesnar should not immediately return to the main event and should have to “pay his dues” once again for leaving and badmouthing WWE the way he did. Of course, the other school of thought is that if he is brought back as a main-eventer, his return will seem important from a storyline-perspective.

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According to TwinCities.Com, Brock Lesnar hasn’t heard from the Minnesota Vikings as to whether he will get another tryout next year. Since he hasn’t been doing anything to better himself as a football player, like playing in Europe or Canada, I don’t see what he will bring to the table next year that he didn’t this year. To add to speculation that he wont play for the Vkings, Lesnar has been contacting WWE recently about a return. A possible return could be at this Sunday’s Royal Rumble, seeing him take the last Smackdown entry.

A commercial in Puerto Rico for No Way Out shows a barbed wire cage, and confirms that The Big Show will face JBL inside it.

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According to a WWE source, they say Lesnar’s contract demands for a WWE return are “ridiculous” so far in discussions he’s had with them that it’s doubtful a deal would have been worked out in recent days.

However, it is possible that WWE could offer him a Royal Rumble slot, to soften the demands on returning, hoping he “marks out” for the opportunity to make a “splash” in a surprise return.

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Former WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar has filed a lawsuit against WWE. Word has it that Lesnar has been hell-bent on getting a lawsuit filed because WWE is allegedly holding him back from making a living due to the “no compete clause” in his WWE contract.

Lesnar signed a new contract after his WrestleMania appearance agreeing to the no compete clause. He decided he no longer wanted to wrestle and wanted to pursue a career in the NFL. While making the preseason squad for the Minnesota Vikings, he was cut before the end of the season.

Now, a no compete clause prevents him from working for any other major competitor, including other professional wrestling organizations or professional fighting promotions such as UFC and PRIDE. That clause does not expire until June 30 in the year 2010. We also learned that the no compete clause covers the world, not just the U.S.

Last week we reported that Lesnar was making ridiculous demands regarding the terms of his return to WWE when he contacted them a couple months ago. The company was fine with letting Lesnar out of his contract because he agreed to the no compete clause.

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Former World Wrestling Entertainment champion Brock Lesnar filed a lawsuit against the WWE in U.S. District Court in Connecticut last week, arguing that a no-compete clause he signed last year before joining the Vikings is too vague and “unenforceable.”

The WWE has until March 1 to respond. Calls to the WWE weren’t returned Thursday.

Lesnar, whose attempt to make the Vikings as a defensive tackle failed in training camp, was released from his WWE contract in March. According to court documents, part of the agreement restricts Lesnar from working “in the businesses of professional wrestling, ultimate fighting and/or sports entertainment in any capacity whatsoever through June 30, 2010.”

“Basically, Brock needs to go back to work,” said David Olson, Lesnar’s Minneapolis-based attorney. “Wrestling and contact sports are what he knows.”

Lesnar, a former NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion with the Gophers, probably has exhausted his chances of making an NFL team. He hadn’t played football since high school nine years earlier when he was signed by the Vikings last summer.

Ed Hitchcock, Lesnar’s NFL agent, said Lesnar “still wants to play football.” However, no teams were interested enough to allocate Lesnar to NFL Europe, the league’s spring developmental league.

Lesnar could return to the WWE, but Olson said WWE founder Vince McMahon hasn’t made an offer to take him back.

Lesnar could not be reached for comment.

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The latest in the Brock Lesnar vs. WWE lawsuit is that World Wrestling Entertainment moved successfully for attorneys Jerry S. McDevitt, Mark D. Feczko, and Christopher Michalski to be added to their legal team for the case. McDevitt has long been the head of WWE’s legal cases, including Vince McMahon’s successful defense against steroid distribution charges in the State of New York in 1994.

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WWE.com has posted an update in its continuing coverage of the Brock Lesnar return story. The following was announced this evening:

WWE.com has learned that Brock Lesnar has met with his attorney, David Olsen, to discuss the written contract offer Lesnar received last week from World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. It is unclear when the contract will be signed. The terms were not disclosed.

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IWGP champion Kazuyuki Fujita will face Masahiro Chono and Brock Lesnar announced today in Japan. Of course it will be interesting too see how this plays out because Lesnar has a no-compete clause with WWE that is still being enforced although he had meetings with WWE earlier this year.