Lance Storm Weighs In On Brock Lesnar’s WWE Return: “It’s About The Overall Message You Send To Women Who Work For You In Your Company…”

Storm speaks candidly about the subject.

For the first time since 2023, Brock Lesnar was on WWE programming when he returned at the conclusion of SummerSlam 2025 and laid out John Cena.

Lesnar is named in former WWE employee Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit against WWE, Vince McMahon, and now-dropped defendant John Laurinaitis. The suit noted that McMahon instructed Grant to create sexual content for Lesnar, and when Lesnar agreed to a new contract, a part of that agreement was that Lesnar got to have sex with her.

His return to the company was delved into by Lance Storm on Wrestling Observer Live. Storm shared his thoughts about how people should be viewing Brock’s comeback.

“I don’t think it’s about Brock (Lesnar). I think it’s about the working environment of women within WWE, and under Vince (McMahon), there was a very unfavorable, bad — pick your own word — work environment for women. Dating back to Rita Chatterton to the objectivity of women with Bra and Panties matches and thong-a-thongs and ‘puppies, puppies, puppies.’ The very handsy makeout sessions that women had to do with Vince McMahon. Take that forward to whatever necessitated Vince to offer multi-million NDAs to women to stay silent, to what we learned about Janel Grant, and Vince was removed and Hunter has made things so much better. Women are making way more money. Women are legitimate stars, women aren’t objectified like they used to be, women can wear non-revealing outfits and still be big stars. So, to me, whether you bring Brock back or not or anyone else back or not, to me, you need to ask your question: Does this support your move to improve and make a respectful, safe environment for women in your company? Or does it detract from that and make it feel like you’re going backwards? Because I think if you just look at each individual case, well, did this person do something that’s really worth that? Oh, was this one instance? It’s not about the individual instances. It’s about the overall message you send to women who work for you in your company about the environment they are going to have to perform in, and I think you need to look at it from the women’s standpoint, and whether they would be in favor of something or not.”

WWE Chief Content Officer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque and Paul Heyman have spoken about Lesnar’s return. Their comments can be read by clicking on their highlighted names.

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