I think it's possible but there are other circumstances like Khan will massively overpay for him just like Osprey and Okada's family likely won't want to move since his wife is a tv star....AEW can offer those things that WWE can't.

I don't think that's even close to good enough personally. Lesnar taking the belt and doing Punk/Lesnar could work but I'm pretty sure he's already pencilled in for Gunther

Rollins will probably be fine for mania but it cuts it razor thin close.

Depends on the grade of the tear.

Eh. Ospreay has always leaned quite hard into the anti WWE schtick. Okada by comparison has been backstage numerous times and probably has at least a decent relationship with the top brass.

Not to mention with this international kick they've been on with the PLEs, if they want to run a couple shows in Japan having Okada and Nakamura would be a pretty hefty boon

Looked to me like they would have Jey take the belt off of Gunther, so I guess Lesnar is coming in after that happens.

They've been trying to get in bed with New Japan, All Japan, etc....what better way to do that than have Okada.

Like I could def. see him going to AEW but I do think the WWE will make a serious play for him and unlike Vince, HHH will respect Okada and probably bend over backwards for him in a lot of ways.

It all really comes down to will Endeavor pony up what Tony will and does Okada want to remain living with his family in Japan, Osprey didn't want to move his family.

Hell, Vince respected the hell out of Nakamura. It's his fault for phoning it in and derailing that run.

Jey Uso and Gunther seems more like it's primed for either the Rumble undercard or whatever they call the event between RR and Mania.

Nakamura openly said he went to WWE to get paid to not work as hard, he literally viewed it as an opportunity to get paid to do less. He's content getting paid, being lazy in a lot of matches and fishing in his off time.

He didn't wanna work Japan style anymore.

Huh. So according to Meltzer it may well be a triple threat between Rock, Reigns, and Rhodes.

Not a chance IMO....they have one shot at Rock/Reigns, that's the match.

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So does that mean you have to have Netflix to watch it? That's going to piss a lot of people off if so.

That is what it means, Amazon was also in on it.

And the other shoe finally drops.

https://www.wsj.com/business/vince-m...d=hp_lead_pos2


Janel Grant, a former employee at WWE’s headquarters, said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she was abused and sexually exploited by McMahon while he was chief executive. She alleged that McMahon lured her with promises of career advancement, and then he allegedly exploited her and trafficked her to other men inside the company.

Grant signed a nondisclosure agreement in 2022 in which McMahon agreed to pay $3 million for her to not discuss their relationship or to disparage him. The WWE received an anonymous tip in 2022 about the relationship and started a board investigation, which uncovered other payments by the CEO to women. Grant’s lawsuit said McMahon stopped making payments under the 2022 deal after the initial $1 million installment. The suit seeks to void the agreement and unspecified financial damages.

The lawsuit, filed in a Connecticut federal court, describes in graphic detail Grant’s account of interactions with the businessman and TV personality. She alleged that McMahon and another WWE executive locked her in an office in WWE’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn., on June 15, 2021, and took turns sexually assaulting her while other staff were working.

In the middle of another workday, on June 23, 2021, McMahon locked Grant inside his private locker room at WWE’s offices and forced himself on her over a massage table, the suit said. Later that day, McMahon’s personal assistant delivered $15,000 in Bloomingdale’s gift cards to Grant in her office.

The suit also includes screenshots of explicit text messages that McMahon allegedly sent to Grant. A May 2020 message said: “i’m the only one who owns U and controls who I want to f— U.”

Grant alleged that McMahon shared nude photos and explicit videos of her without consent with other WWE employees, unnamed executives and stars, and directed her to have sex with them. The suit cited a July 2020 text that said others at WWE wanted to have sex with her after seeing photos on McMahon’s phone, and the group laughed when he told them, “She may scream and try to say NO!!although it would B difficult to say anything with a c— down her throat.”

Grant alleged that the company diverted attention away from McMahon’s abuse by focusing on the accounting for the payouts. Others at WWE knew about McMahon’s misconduct but worked to conceal the wrongdoing, according to the suit.

That December, McMahon gave Grant’s personal cellphone number to the WWE star, the lawsuit said. The wrestler asked her to send a video of herself urinating, the suit said, and after she did, he called her a “b—.” That same month, the suit said, the star expressed a desire to “set a play date,” but a snowstorm disrupted his travel plans.

In January 2022, the suit said, McMahon told Grant that his wife, Linda McMahon, had discovered the relationship and he pressured Grant to sign an NDA in exchange for payments. The CEO warned Grant of reputational ruin that included pornographic content he had of her. He paid her about $1 million in February, the suit said, and later stopped making the payments.

After Grant signed the NDA, McMahon continued the abuse, according to the suit. It alleged that he forced Grant to perform oral sex on him the last time they met and then attempted to traffic her to the WWE star in March 2022. She texted the star explicit photos as directed by McMahon, but they didn’t meet, the suit said.

Oof. There's some really ****ed shit in those allegations, and I have a hard time believing at least some of them are not true given how TKO has already prepared exactly for this outcome. Hell, wouldn't shock me if someone higher up at TKO gave pertinent info to the lawyers of the accuser.

Trips finally throwing the old man out?

Puts the whole Brock walking out of Smackdown when Vince left into a whole new picture....

Just abhorrent shit but nothing with Vince is surprising anymore sadly...

Wow. Not linked by the article. There's some ****ing depraved shit in here.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...157647.1.0.pdf

As one example of McMahon’s extreme depravity, on May 9, 2020, he defecated on Ms. Grant during a threesome, and then commanded her to continue pleasuring his “friend”— with feces in her hair and running down her back—while McMahon went to the bathroom to shower off. Upon his return from the bathroom, McMahon and his “friend” actively resumed the threesome, which lasted over an hour and a half, while Ms. Grant remained covered in McMahon’s filth. When McMahon’s “friend” left, McMahon ordered her to stay and to continue to sexually gratify him.

My goodness. That is so ****ed.

Vince was already pretty much put out to pasture, but how they handle Lesnars involvement will be interesting.

McMahon totally looks like the guy who would type like that.

Also, what am I missing with Lesnar?

J is an entire excerpt on Vince trafficking her to presumably Brock. The Summer 2021 date and the superstar expressing interest to return to other ventures matches up perfectly with Brock. (signed an 18 month deal around SummerSlam 2021 and was using UFC as leverage at the time.)

The biggest issue here is that many people who were in positions of power when that happened, still are.

An internal investigation turned up "nothing" there may be heads rolling to try to prove they don't have a toxic culture.

Goodness

That doesn't even include the part where Vince shit on her head during a threesome.

They didn't even interview the woman filing this lawsuit.

Vince named dildos that he would use on her after WWE wrestlers. What the actual ****…

And apparently participated in a threeway that involved John Laurinaitis...that's ****ing disturbing.

LMAOThis situation is horrifying for that poor gal, but that's the most Vince McMahon thing ever

Some "highlights"

The suit also includes screenshots of explicit text messages that McMahon allegedly sent to Grant. A May 2020 message said: “i’m the only one who owns U and controls who I want to **** U.”

The suit cited a July 2020 text that said others at WWE wanted to have sex with her after seeing photos on McMahon’s phone, and the group laughed when he told them, “She may scream and try to say NO!!although it would B difficult to say anything with a cock down her throat.”

When they met, McMahon allegedly made promises of a job at WWE and showered Grant with gifts. During meetings that were supposed to be about the job, he greeted her in his underwear and repeatedly asked for hugs.

He forcefully used sex toys on her, including dildos he named after WWE wrestlers, causing her bruising and bleeding, the suit said.

In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said.

In the June 2021 encounter inside the WWE office, the suit said McMahon and Laurinaitis forced themselves on her and took turns restraining her for the other, while saying “No means yes” and “Take it, bitch.”

The suit said McMahon shared the explicit photos with the star [likely Brock Lesnar] and informed Grant that “he likes what he sees.” After the star agreed to a new WWE contract, McMahon texted Grant in August 2021 to say “that part of the deal was ****ing U.”

That December, McMahon gave Grant’s personal cellphone number to the WWE star, the lawsuit said. The wrestler asked her to send a video of herself urinating, the suit said, and after she did, he called her a “bitch.” That same month, the suit said, the star expressed a desire to “set a play date,” but a snowstorm disrupted his travel plans.


What in the actual ****

Best response to that I saw on Reddit (and feel horrible laughing at it) is that he had one named John Cena with a little green arm band on it.

Also is it surprising to anyone that Vince texts like a 12 year old boy?

No. If anything it just adds more legitimacy.

I saw another excerpt that said Lesnar requested she send him a video of her pissing....I'm like what in the blue hell, sick ****s.

It's rather concerning that likely most everyone at WWE knew about this..including people like Triple H and Stephanie..I mean shit they're family.

Ol Vince screw the pooch.

It was a woman this time.

Of course they knew, they all knew...hell Stephanie tried starting up a "thank you Vince" chant on Smackdown I believe it was on the day Vince was initially sent packing.

I think Vince might legitimately be a sociopath.

Jfc

I would imagine this will kill the Netflix deal no?

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Maybe the Vince docu. TKO will push everything involved with Vince out so people like Triple H are probably ****ed.

Nah.

I still like watching old school 90s wrestling from time to time.

That’s going to stop now

Yeah...that's probably why Stephanie left when Vince came back (and I really wouldn't be surprised if she was, in some way, a victim of Vince's when she was younger...I really hope not, but I read all 67 pages of the court document and little would surprise me now).

Maybe not of Vince but there's long been rumors of Randy Savage grooming her basically and something may or may not have happened there...who the **** knows with this cesspool.

He was on the investigation committee that buried the entire thing. He could be in some legal hot water.

That was just gossip and looks to be completely untrue. The reality is that Macho took the Slim Jim deal with him when he went to WCW. That was the cause of the animosity between Savage and McMahon.

Vince wanted to do a storyline where he knocked up his own daughter

Better than shitting on her in a 3some

Rumors making the rounds on Twitter that Slim Jim is pulling their sponsorship of the Rumble tomorrow and evaluating their long term committment...

Nothing confirmed though.

Watching the Royal Rumble as a plus to subscribing for Peacock for the year.... my thoughts thus far...

Women's Royal Rumble....Winner (Yawn) Saw that coming a mile away...but will say that seeing Jade Cargill drop Nia Jax over the rope was nice to watch. Would have preferred to have seen Jade Cargill win and challenge Mami.

Fatal 4 Way....Winner (Another Yawn) The match was good to watch but so predictable that it really made it anticlimactic.

Fully convinced that the other 2 matches will be disappointing to some extent too

They have been a sponsor tonight....their commercials have Savage on video but LA Knight and Bianca Belair in person

LOL....Logan Paul and Kevin Owen....good match, weird ending.

It was a pretty creative ending, honestly.

Logan Paul is a natural at wrestling.

Guess I see it differently...he looks stiff to me.

Who didn't guess the final 2 were going to be?

Ok.....I am surprised that Rhodes won since I was fully expecting CM Punk to be the winner.

Cody going to finish the story come hell or high water.

Man, HHH handled that fake presser about as poorly as one could.

Jordyanne grace was a big shocker thou I wish moose would of come out for the men or joe hendry.

Apparently Punk got injured during the Rumble...some rumors that it's a torn triceps...

Again?

That's the injury he got against Moxley, dude is to old to not get hurt apparently.

Yep. Just saw where he got it. Took that DDT from McIntyre and he immediately rolls over and holds his tricep.

Maybe CM Punk should consider retirement.

He is done and honestly wasn't impressed with his return. boring....

Can he challenge Seth and have a cripple match for the belt?

New Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Tees will both be pulling official merchandise and t-shirts for Kazuchika Okada as of tomorrow, 2/1. Today would be the final day to order those items.

The belief among those we've spoken with is today is his final day under contract with NJPW and that tomorrow, he will officially be a free agent.

As PWInsiderElite has noted previously, the belief is that with his long-time friendship with The Young Bucks, AEW is Okada's likely destination. When Okada was a rookie on excursion in the United States and wrestling for TNA, The Young Bucks took him under their wing and befriended him, assisting him out when most others left Okada to his own devices to navigate living, traveling and working in a foreign country. Okada has maintained a steadfast loyalty to the Bucks in the years since as he evolved into one of the best in-ring wrestlers in the world.

Okada is being represented by Barry Bloom for negotiations with his next deal. Bloom was with him when Okada wrestled for TNA in Las Vegas. PWInsider is told there are no current talks between TNA and Okada and he is not expected to appear there again. We are also told that if there were any discussions between Okada and WWE, they were not of any great length of depth.

Okada is ****ing nuts if he goes to AEW instead of WWE given current circumstances.

To be really really honest, he may not think WWE will present him properly..or he may not want to be associated with WWE with well you know..

Or it could be something as simple as not moving his family to America.

Why would Vince McMahon being a vile human being matter anymore. He's been ostracized and from the outside looking in, apart from HHH pulling a PR blunder at the press conference, they've played it about as well as they could have.

Present him properly? If that was a concern he'd have already signed with WWE. Being brutally honest, Khan has no earthly idea what the **** he's doing, and it becomes more and more glaring he farther out we get from him not being able to trade on fans being sick and tired of WWE. Every star WWE has decided to poach instantly becomes a much bigger star (Rhodes, Punk, Cargill, etc) and every name that goes to AEW is an irrelevant face in the crowd within a month.

If these guys want to play grabass with their friends on Khans dime, by all means, go for it, but I wouldn't be shocked if AEW isn't even a thing before most of these terms run out the way business has been for them recently.