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WWE Lawyer Says Buff Bagwell’s Lawsuit Is Based on “False Facts”

August 12, 2016 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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– WWE lawyer Jerry McDevitt has issued a statement in regard to the lawsuit filed by Marcus “Buff” Bagwell over WWE Network royalties that Bagwell claims he is due. In the lawsuit, Bagwell says that language in his WCW contract was merged with his brief WWE contract in 2001 and grants him royalties over home video and PPV content stemming from “technology not yet created” at the time, which he says the WWE Network qualifies as.

McDevitt told PWInsider in the statement, “Since the first purported class action case was brought on behalf of Billy Jack Haynes almost two years ago, this pack of class action lawyers have filed by my count 14 different complaints or amended complaints. All of them have been full of patently false allegations, and none of them have gone anywhere. They haven’t got a penny, and the judge is in the process of deciding whether to throw other ones out. Bagwell’s lawsuit is much the same. It is based on clearly false facts, and would embarrass a first year law student because of the ignorance of basic contract law principles. Bagwell was never promised a penny by anybody for the use of WCW archival footage. Not by Turner and not by WWE, and he knows it. Like I did before with [Rene] Dupree’s bad faith lawsuit, I will be demanding they withdraw this latest suit next week. If they don’t, we will move to dismiss, ask for sanctions, and seek to recover counsel fees from Bagwell.”