Ex-WWE Star Suggests Brock Lesnar A Step Back To Vince McMahon Era

Brock Lesnar is back in WWE, but one former star of the company thinks it’s a step backwards when it comes to women in the company.

Brock Lesnar made his shock return to WWE at SummerSlam, where he attacked John Cena moments after Cena had lost his WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes.

The last time fans had seen Lesnar in the company was back at SummerSlam in 2023, where he lost to Rhodes. A return in 2024 was called off after Brock Lesnar was named 44 times in the sexual abuse lawsuit filed against former WWE owner Vince McMahon.

Were Women In WWE Considered For Brock Lesnar’s Return?

Speaking on Wrestling Observer Live, former WWE star Lance Storm explained why he thinks people aren’t looking at the full picture regarding Brock Lesnar’s return and think it’s bigger than just one person returning, as he asked for the women of WWE’s point of view to be considered:

I think everyone’s looking at it from the wrong perspective. I don’t think it’s about Brock. I think it’s about the working environment of women within WWE. And under Vince, there was a very unfavourable, bad, pick your own word, work environment for women, dating back to Rita Chatterton to the objectivity of women with bra and panties matches, thong-a-thons 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 dollar NDAs to women to stay silent to what we learned about Janel Grant.

Women were drastically underpaid in that era, too. 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?

I think if you just look at each individual case, it’s not about the individual instances; it’s about the overall message you send to women who work for you and in your company about the environment they are going to have to perform in. I think you need to look at it from the women’s standpoint and whether they would be in favour of something or not.

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