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NEWS - MLW Suing WWE! Two Royal Rumble Surprise Entrants Spoilers! AEW Original’s Contract Expiring Soon? Huge WWE Name To Miss WrestleMania 38?!

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


MLW Suing WWE!

Two Royal Rumble Surprise Entrants Spoilers!

AEW Original’s Contract Expiring Soon?

Huge WWE Name To Miss WrestleMania 38?!


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0:00.0

Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news, WWE are being sued for a quote

0:13.8

unquote unfair and anti-competitive practices.

0:17.1

Potential spoilers in the Royal Rumble surprise entrance category, an AEW original's contract

0:23.6

might be expiring soon, and a major WWE star is set to miss Wrestlemania, and I'm Andy

0:31.5

Murray, and this is the news, lawsuits, this is something else, broke overnight, became

0:39.7

public, lawsuits been published, it's available, we've actually got quite a comprehensive

0:45.2

right up on this on our website which is where you should go if you want the full details

0:48.9

we've got the link to the actual lawsuit, we've got MLW statement, WWE statement, everything

0:54.1

else is there, we can only go into so much detail on the news video, so I'll preface the

0:58.5

story by saying that, but the crux of the lead story today is the MLW are suing WWE for

1:06.0

a bunch of different reasons, so as per the preliminary statement in this suit, they

1:13.6

are suing them for poaching talent to misappropriating confidential information, interfering

1:19.6

with competitors' contracts and cutting off competitors' access to their viewing audiences,

1:25.7

so that last part of it there, when they say cutting off competitors' access to their

1:30.0

viewing audience, it means a bunch of deals here, the MLW has alleged WWE came in and

1:37.4

Kai Bosch basically, one of them is with Kai Bosch, we've already capered around a little

1:44.0

bit this morning, might as well bring out the big words, one of them was with Tubi, a

1:50.8

platform the MLW had allegedly agreed a distribution deal with in July of last year, it was due

1:57.3

to be announced publicly on the 10th of August, Stephanie McMahon allegedly had a meeting,

2:03.6

an interview, a meeting with officials from the platform the day before that, and apparently

2:08.0

a contest suit, allegedly we're going to say that word a lot here, pressurised them into

2:12.7

pulling out, as it would have gone head to head, the MLW content would have gone head to

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