The WWE has been in the business of wrestling entertainment for over three decades already and it has been very good at it.
Amid the competition posed by WCW and other wrestling outfits not too long ago, the WWE stood out and is in fact, the only reputable sports wrestling entertainment that is around today.
Wrestlers who are not able to get a juicy contract from the outfit either turn their backs on the business, jump over to the UFC and do real mixed martial arts fighting, or worse, sue the company for bodily injuries among others. So getting sued by former wrestlers is no longer new to the WWE.
Apparently, the WWE is now faced again with a similar legal entanglement as three former wrestlers of the outfit have sued the company alleging that the WWE has been subjecting its wrestlers to extreme physical brutality and that those things cause long-term irreversible bodily damage including possible brain injuries to the wrestlers, details MSN News.
Class suit
The class suit was filed on April 9 in California by Russ McCullough also known in the WWE as Big Russ McCullough, Ryan Sakoda, and Matt Wiese known in the WWE as Luther Reigns.
The three former wrestlers alleged that the WWE knowingly conducted egregious mistreatment of its wrestlers for its own benefit, as well as its concealment and denial of medical research and evidence concerning traumatic brain injuries suffered by WWE wrestlers.
The wrestlers were represented in court by Michael McShane and Jonas P. Mann of Audet & Partners LLP in San Francisco, California.
They alleged that the WWE disavowed, concealed, and prevented any medical care for these head injuries after they were sustained. They also demanded a jury trial and also asked the court to issue an injunction against the WWE from continuing its business and order for immediate medical monitoring of wrestlers.
Frivolous allegation
Early this year, Phil ‘CM Punk’ Brooks also claimed to have sustained physical injury during a contest and alleged that the WWE physician allowed him to play despite his condition.
Investigation by the WWE proved that CM Punk was not telling the truth as the video of the match showed that he does not have a lump at his back the size of a baseball during the contest he claimed he had been hurting.
Jerry McDevitt of K&L Gates law firm, who is the outside legal counsel of the WWE, refers to the lawsuit by the three former wrestlers as defective, fraudulent and frivolous because it contains fabricated claims and nonsense.
He also explained that this is not the first lawsuit that has been filed against the outfit with virtually identical allegations. Similar lawsuits were also filed in Oregon last year and in Pennsylvania in January this year. McDevitt said that all it takes is 50 bucks and a pen to file a lawsuit. The issue now is whether one can prove the things he or they allege in court or not.