WWE Issues Statement Regarding False Allegations in Recent Lawsuits Against Them

WWE Issues Statement Regarding False Allegations in Recent Lawsuits Against Them

The offices of WWE have released the following statement regarding false allegations pitted against them in recent lawsuits. As previously reported, WWE is suing a slew of WWE Hall of Famers and former superstars who have been suing them for damages relating from “years of brutality” and concussion related injuries.

WWE says,

“WWE filed a lawsuit in Connecticut to protect the company from a series of fraudulent claims made by a Massachusetts attorney regarding alleged concussion-related injuries. A few examples of such false allegations from this lawyer include:

· Claims in two different federal courts that five individuals died prematurely due to head injuries when in fact all five individuals are alive today.

· Falsely stating that an individual’s years of performance with WWE spanned 22 years from 1985 through 2007, when in fact the individual performed for only 2 years (1985-1986 and 1992-1993) and made one appearance in 2007.

· Alleging that head injury led to the death of a morbidly obese former performer who died of a heart attack years after last performing for WWE.

· A claim that an individual suffered from deafness allegedly due to head injury when said individual has publicly stated that he was deaf since birth.

· Claiming that head injury led to the accidental drug overdose of a former performer over 20 years after he last performed.

It is unfortunate that some former performers have been improperly recruited under the guise of a big ‘pay day’, and we feel badly that these individuals are being misled and exploited.”

Some of the superstars, Hall of Famers, or families of legends who have passed away that are suing WWE, and in turn, are being sued by the company are:

“Blackjack” Mulligan
Koko B. Ware
The family of Doink the Clown
The family of Viscera (Big Daddy V/Mable)
Ivan Koloff
Dynamite Kid
Luther Reigns
Ryan Sakoda
Big Russ McCullough

WrestlingRumors.net will continue updating this story as more information becomes available.

Editor’s Note:

And more pieces of the puzzle fall into place.