Brock Lesnar Returns To WWE At SummerSlam, Lays Out John Cena With F5
Lesnar is back in WWE.
Closing out the two-night WWE SummerSlam Premium Live Event was John Cena defending the Undisputed WWE Championship against Cody Rhodes. Going into the bout, Cena made it clear that he was putting his heel turn to the wayside and wanted to have a clean one-on-one fight with Rhodes at SummerSlam.
They did just that in their Street Fight at SummerSlam, and it was Rhodes besting Cena to become a two-time Undisputed WWE Champion.
Rhodes and Cena embraced each other several times afterwards, and Rhodes left the ring to Cena. As John was taking in the adulation from the crowd, he was about to leave the ring until the theme music of Brock Lesnar hit over MetLife Stadium. Lesnar came out on WWE programming in what was his first appearance since SummerSlam 2023, where he lost to Cody Rhodes.
Lesnar stalked Cena around ringside and then charged at him. Cena took a swing, but Lesnar ducked it and hit an F5 on the 17-time WWE World Champion.
In January 2024, Lesnar was named in former WWE employee Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis, who has since been dropped from the suit after agreeing to provide evidence for Grant on the case.
Lesnar was subsequently pulled from the WWE Supercard mobile game and the cover of WWE 2K24’s 40 Years of WrestleMania cover. The lawsuit noted that former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon instructed Janel Grant to create sexual content for Lesnar. When Lesnar agreed to a new WWE contract, McMahon allegedly told Grant that part of the agreement was that Lesnar got to have sex with her. The suit notes that Lesnar attempted to set up a meeting between him and Grant and also requested that she send a video of herself urinating.
Around the time of the suit becoming public, POST Wrestling’s John Pollock reported that Lesnar was scheduled to return to WWE at Royal Rumble 2024, but plans were altered after the details of the lawsuit were made public.
There were several times in 2024 that WWE Chief Content Officer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque was asked about a potential return for Lesnar, and he said that Lesnar was not gone from WWE.
