Wrestling Thread (WWE, AEW, etc)

After Amann filed his lawsuit on February 16th, 2015, Punk and Cabana retained Brenner as legal counsel for the case. Since Punk assured Cabana he was 100% covered, they signed an agreement saying they agree to "bill [Punk] for all of the legal services and expenses that we incur with respect to the Amann lawsuit" and "it is our understanding that Phil (Punk) will be responsible for paying these invoices."

Despite agreeing to pick up the cost of the trial's mounting legal fees, in late April 2016, Punk demanded via email that Cabana pay "for one or more of the Loeb Firm's statements."
"To date, I have spent $513,736 on this Amann lawsuit," Punk wrote. "My outstanding current bill is at least $300k. Half of all this is yours. Divide the 513,736 by 2 and that is what you owe me and what I expect you to pay me. Starting now I will no longer be paying your bills. You are on your own. Whatever my bill is currently, will be cut in half, and half will be yours. If you choose to make this ugly, that's fine too. I hope you won't but I gave up on you doing what is right a long time ago."

The legal documents filed by Cabana's attorney on August 7th provides new details about the Amann lawsuit. It was said Cabana received an email with a letter from Dr. Amann "on or about December 14, 2014," demanding that he take down the podcast. Cabana notified Punk of this email through text messaging and the former WWE Champion said he would have his attorney at Loeb & Loeb "handle it."

After Cabana received a demand letter by mail on December 16th, Punk was notified again via text messages. Punk allegedly told Cabana to not respond and that he would be talking to his attorney, Sunny Brenner, to come up with a game plan." Punk told Cabana that "you're 100% covered." Cabana said that if he would have responded to the letter instead of listening to Punk, then he wouldn't have have had to incur the "costs, expenses or losses" associated with the case that he did.

if this is true, looks like Colt has more than a case against him. i'll give it another 6 months before Punk desperately needs money and we hear his music hit at RR.

Orton may be in hot water. j/k He's untouchable but this is still disturbing...

An account of Randy Orton allegedly sexual harrassing WWE writing staff several years ago has once again come into the public eye.
Former WWE writer Court Bauer, who is now the CEO and founder of MLW (Major League Wrestling), spoke of the way Orton allegedly treated new WWE writing staff members on a 2012 podcast as part of MLW Radio. The incident was discussed on episode 49 of the podcast, titled "Ribbing and Junk," which is now part of their premium archives.

A user on Reddit brought up the segment recently after listening to it and posted Bauer's account:
For every new writer that would show up, he [would] come in the room put his hand down his pants, pull out his d---, touch himself, then say "I'm Randy Orton, shake my hand...Oh, you don't want to shake my hand? You're 'big leaguing' me? That's f----- up man. Should I tell Vince and Steph you won't shake Randy Orton's hand?"
The writers would all start sweating and backing up into the corner, the guy's d--- is still hanging out, and he would be there cutting a promo on a guy with his d--- hanging out for like five minutes. Court goes on to say Orton was very intense so you could never tell if he was f------ with you or [if] he was really hot.
Court says he was lucky, Randy did it to him on the first day he was with the company at TV and just as he was about to pull his d--- out, Stephanie walked in, and that s--- went right back in his pants. Court describes it as a teacher entering the classroom.
When asked if he would have shaken his hand, Court says "I don't know. I'm a bit of a germaphobe." Court says this was something Orton did during his [Court's] entire time at the WWE, and he is surprised Orton didn't get hit with sexual harassment.

WrestlingNews.co reached out to WWE for a comment on the story. WWE responded with the comment "WWE is looking into the matter."

Word is from many wrestlers on Twitter is that the father of Natalya Jim Neidhart "The Anvil" has passed away.

Originally posted by jrg:
Word is from many wrestlers on Twitter is that the father of Natalya Jim Neidhart "The Anvil" has passed away.

dude wasn't looking so hot the past three years. He was on a drug binge or something like that. IIRC they took him to rehab.

The Anvil is gone.

Originally posted by JustinMT:
Orton may be in hot water. j/k He's untouchable but this is still disturbing...

An account of Randy Orton allegedly sexual harrassing WWE writing staff several years ago has once again come into the public eye.
Former WWE writer Court Bauer, who is now the CEO and founder of MLW (Major League Wrestling), spoke of the way Orton allegedly treated new WWE writing staff members on a 2012 podcast as part of MLW Radio. The incident was discussed on episode 49 of the podcast, titled "Ribbing and Junk," which is now part of their premium archives.

A user on Reddit brought up the segment recently after listening to it and posted Bauer's account:
For every new writer that would show up, he [would] come in the room put his hand down his pants, pull out his d---, touch himself, then say "I'm Randy Orton, shake my hand...Oh, you don't want to shake my hand? You're 'big leaguing' me? That's f----- up man. Should I tell Vince and Steph you won't shake Randy Orton's hand?"
The writers would all start sweating and backing up into the corner, the guy's d--- is still hanging out, and he would be there cutting a promo on a guy with his d--- hanging out for like five minutes. Court goes on to say Orton was very intense so you could never tell if he was f------ with you or [if] he was really hot.
Court says he was lucky, Randy did it to him on the first day he was with the company at TV and just as he was about to pull his d--- out, Stephanie walked in, and that s--- went right back in his pants. Court describes it as a teacher entering the classroom.
When asked if he would have shaken his hand, Court says "I don't know. I'm a bit of a germaphobe." Court says this was something Orton did during his [Court's] entire time at the WWE, and he is surprised Orton didn't get hit with sexual harassment.

WrestlingNews.co reached out to WWE for a comment on the story. WWE responded with the comment "WWE is looking into the matter."

I'm sure the WWE knew about it. Hardly anything is a secret backstage and Orton did some crazy stuff back then.

he hears voices in his head, they understand, they talk to him, they talk to him...

Originally posted by jrg:

He looks so strange with the short hair and beard. He definitely put on some muscle too. He looks way bigger than he did before.

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Originally posted by jrg:

He looks so strange with the short hair and beard. He definitely put on some muscle too. He looks way bigger than he did before.

At least Renee is happy.

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Originally posted by jrg:

He looks so strange with the short hair and beard. He definitely put on some muscle too. He looks way bigger than he did before.

At least Renee is happy.

i approve of the new look. he needed some sort of change. but yeah, he got jacked.

Dude's gonna turn on Seth

Who?