-- Multi-time WWE champion Brock Lesnar has not been in action in over a year, having last wrestled at SummerSlam in a losing effort to Cody Rhodes. Yesterday, rumors emerged that WWE and Lesnar have had discussions about a possible return, however, fightfulselect.com reports that there are currently no plans for him to be brought back.
-- Lesnar's potential return was first brought up by Bill Apter on his podcast and then vaguely corroborated by the WrestleVotes account. Fightfulselect.com cites a high-level source within WWE as stating that there are "no creative plans in place for Lesnar" and that if any conversations have taken place, it is not something that the creative team has been briefed on.
-- Lesnar was referenced in the ongoing Janel Grant lawsuit against WWE and Vince McMahon and the company pulled him from all plans and promotional material immediately after that. Lesnar was at one point confirmed for the 2024 Royal Rumble that was intended to lead to a program against Gunther and a match between the two at WrestleMania. At the time, WWE was distancing itself from Lesnar to such lengths that they went through a great expense to remove him from the WWE 2K25 video game and drastically halted merchandise production with his likeliness.
-- While WWE's stance on Lesnar has softened over the months with some wrestler indirectly referencing him on TV and commentators mentioning him directly, as well as WWE COO Triple H saying that Lesnar could be back with WWE whenever he is ready to return, company sources don't believe the promotion would bring him back in the middle of a federal investigation.
