PWInsider has reported that a new lawsuit was filed against WWE and UFC by Leland Owens, alleging that he “never got paid” from a verbal agreement with WWE.
In a case filed before the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Washington, Owens claimed:
I gave the WWE ideas and never got paid. I also told Daniel Bruan [sic] (at the time) what i was going to do with my earning with said ideas and the World Wrestling Entertainment tried to get in front of it because Vince thinks of this as competition. We have a verbal agreement in which was supposed to talk about at the time i receive my payment for my ideas.
The plaintiff of the lawsuit also alleges that Bryan and Sasha Banks (acknowledging she was now Mercedes Mone’ in AEW) were sent by the company to give him a check for $100,000 for “hush money” after a comment was made about his daughter by Stephanie McMahon.
He goes on to claim that he submitted ideas through Instagram to Bryan, Mone’, and Paul Levesque, in regards to his own company (which was going to be called PIE) and an event called “Stomping Grounds,” among others.
Owens asked for a cease and desist on the part of WWE parent company TKO Group Holdings as well as “what is fair and accurate.”
Per the report, it does not appear there will be much going forward based on the filing, with no way that WWE or any other entertainment company would accept unsolicited ideas through social media, much less send talent to deliver “hush money” on behalf of the McMahon family.