WWE reportedly didn’t do a press conference for SummerSlam 2025 due to Brock Lesnar’s return

As seen during the 2025 WWE SummerSlam Sunday PLE, Brock Lesnar made his surprise return to WWE in his first appearance since SummerSlam 2023. Lesnar attacked John Cena with an F5 to end the show.

While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com discussed WWE’s decision to bring back Lesnar despite him being named in Janel Grant’s ongoing sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon…

“Four weeks ago, WWE Legal cleared him (Brock Lesnar). As far as why, I don’t know. And that something to speculate on, because theres a lot of stuff. Obviously everything relates to the Janel Grant lawsuit, and WWE Legal is either confident that their thing goes to arbitration and Lesnar’s not a factor at that point. Or they’re close to a settlement, and at that point Lesnar’s not a factor. Or somebody there just had a change of mind. And I don’t know which one of those it is.

I do know, everyone figured this out, but I can tell you also factually, that the reason they didn’t do the press conferences was because of this angle.” (quote courtesy of WrestlePurists.com)