Triple H issues major update on WWE’s position over Brock Lesnar return after controversial year-long absence
Triple H says Brock Lesnar may yet make a WWE return despite being gone from screens for a year - if he wants to.
The Beast is one of WWE’s most prominent and high-profile performers and a ten-time former world champion.
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He has been out of action for a prolonged period, however, having been linked to the horrendous sex trafficking allegations levied at disgraced former WWE supremo Vince McMahon.
His last major WWE feud came with fan favourite Cody Rhodes, the pair duelling over the middle part of 2023 before the rivalry culminated in a win for Rhodes at SummerSlam.
Lesnar, who has wrestled a largely part time schedule for the company for many years, had reportedly been due to make a return five months later at the Royal Rumble Premium Live event.
Those plans were seemingly shelved after the filing of a lawsuit by former WWE employee Janel Grant that McMahon had trafficked her to a company executive and wrestler – the latter then later named as Lesnar by a .
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The cumbersome athlete never did appear at the Rumble and hasn’t featured on WWE programming since, his absence now stretching to close to a year.
In the interim, WWE quietly removed him from the cover of a WWE 2K24 video game, 40 Years of WrestleMania, while also dropping him from the trademark intro at the start of all of their programming, replaced by fellow wrestler LA Knight.
The 47-year-old’s name is never far away from headlines, however, and WWE Head of Creative Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque has been repeatedly grilled on whether or not the college wrestling champion will make a comeback.
After WrestleMania XL earlier this year, Levesque had said: “His status is the same as it has been before. Brock is not gone from WWE. He is just home being Brock.â€
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Now, a further three months further down the line without a WWE sighting of The Beast, Levesque has dropped the biggest hint yet that the company are at least prepared to continue doing business with him.
Speaking to , the wrestling great said in response to how close a return might be: “You’d have to ask Brock Lesnar that.â€
But The Game did add: “He's up in in Canada, watching his kids play hockey and enjoying life.
“If and when he decides that he would like to do something, we'd be open to the conversation, but we'll see.â€
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After amateur wrestling and high school football success, Lesnar was a major breakthrough star with WWE during his first stint there between 2000 and 2004.
He featured briefly in the NFL and fought during an eight-match stint in UFC before later returning to wrestling.
In 2014, he picked up arguably the most surprising wrestling win of any star In WWE when he defeated The Undertaker at WrestleMania to end the Dead Man’s legendary streak at the event.
His final WrestleMania outing to-date came in 2023 with a brief match and victory over Omos before his rivalry with Rhodes began.
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