Brock Lesnar has not appeared on WWE programming since WWE SummerSlam 2023. Paul Heyman explains why he has not put thought into his return.
In January 2024, Lesnar was implicated within the sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit in opposition to Vince McMahon. Consequently, plans for his return have been nixed. He has been absent ever since.
Talking with CBS Sports activities’ Shakiel Mahjouri (by way of SHAK Wrestling), Paul Heyman was requested whether or not he was talking with Lesnar.
“You realize, it’s humorous, when individuals ask me about that, it’s the identical reply I might have given in 2002 or in 2009, when he was the UFC Heavyweight Champion, and folks would see me within the background at his coaching camps or his fights,” Paul Heyman stated. “On the subject of Brock Lesnar, Brock Lesnar doesn’t prefer to be mentioned about something about his life that’s off-camera. So if I do communicate to Brock Lesnar, he would need that to be personal.
“If I don’t communicate with Brock Lesnar, he would need that to be personal. I might by no means wish to violate his want of privateness, and I might worry for a human being that might wish to violate the sensation of privateness that might be desired by Brock Lesnar. So primarily based on each love and appreciation for the person and a wholesome dose of absolute worry of the person, I’ll neither verify nor deny my information of even the existence of a species on this planet that carries the identify Brock Lesnar.”
Paul Heyman On Brock Lesnar’s Potential Return
Heyman was then requested to touch upon when followers may even see Lesnar again in WWE. He said that he had not put any thought into it.
“I don’t actually put any thought into that at the moment as a result of it’s not a topic that’s going to resolve itself by Survivor Sequence or by the tip of the 12 months,” Heyman stated. “Subsequently it’s simply not on the radar of issues to handle right now.”
As of this writing, there isn’t a phrase on if or when Lesnar will return to WWE programming.
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