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WHY RENE DUPREE DROPPED HIS LAWSUIT AGAINST WWE, BRET HART NOT EXACTLY STOKED TO APPEAR AT PAYBACK, WWE GOING CAMPING AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2016-04-26 13:49:00

In case you missed Raw, Vince McMahon will decide who gets control of Raw, between Shane McMahon and The Authority, this Sunday at the Payback PPV.  I would love for him to also offer up a great explanation as to why he gave control of the show for the last few weeks to the person that he wanted The Undertaker to kill at WrestleMania because, well, that guy was trying to take control of Raw, but I am not holding my breath.

Total Wrestling interviewed Bret Hart about his appearance at WWE's Payback PPV this weekend.  His response was a real humdinger. "I do it to honour Nattie, I no desire to be there no desire to be on TV.  I’m happy to be there for Nattie but I’ve just had wrist surgery so it’s not a great time.  It’ll be great to put Flair in the sharpshooter though.” Well alrighty then!  You can check out their story by clicking here.

WWE lawyer Jerry McDevitt appeared on The Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast.  He was asked about Rene Dupree's lawsuit, where he was looking for royalties from his likeness appearing on The WWE Network, and said the following:

"I think Dupree was being manipulated by the same lawyer that has been running around bringing these CTE cases against the company and in fact we know he is. That whole business started with this guy advertising on the internet looking for people to sue the WWE and that he’s made various promises and representations to these people about what he thinks he is going to get for them and all the rest of that. After the judge in the CTE cases issued her subsequent rulings throwing out two of the cases and five-sixths of the other one while expressing skepticism about whether that claim would survive, shortly after that we believe he got Dupree to bring this royalties case as kind of a way to deflect attention from what was happening in the other cases and knowing full well that frankly Dupree’s case couldn’t go anywhere. As matters turned out he evidently didn’t tell the lawyers he recruited to bring the case and to hide his own involvement that he had signed not one but two contracts that prohibited him from bringing such claims and as soon as the lawsuit was brought to my attention I sent an email the night they filed it to the lawyer in Chicago. I brought this to the attention of the Chicago lawyer and said I assume you don’t know this because any lawyer who saw these documents wouldn’t bring this lawsuit but here is what your client signed. And as you can see it absolutely prohibits this lawsuit that you’ve brought and that I demand you withdraw it immediately. And he wrote back saying very professionally thank you and that I was not aware of this and that he’ll look into it. And I am sure he did and as the evidence shows, he then withdrew the lawsuit which was the only proper thing he could have done frankly. He could have not continued the lawsuit at all once. I brought that to his attention and Dupree would have known it too, and it was all designed I think to create some negative publicity for the company and see if they could maybe get somebody better then Dupree to bring such a lawsuit which is kind of “trolling” if you will for a plaintiff." 

You can listen to the show by clicking here. ... Thanks to Jimmy K for sending that along.

The Orlando Citrus Bowl, which will host WrestleMania 33, has signed a long term sponsorship deal and will now be known as "Camping World Stadium".  Given the debut of Camp WWE next week, it seems like a theme for WWE right now.

Kevin M. sent this item. ... Rolling Stone did a good interview with John Cena.  You can read it by clicking here.

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