In an update on the lawsuit filed by Buff Bagwell against the WWE, which has seen Scott “Raven” Levy being added since its filing, there was a contentious back and forth between the defendants (WWE) and the attorneys for Buff Bagwell and Raven (plaintiffs) in legal filings this week, as WWE filed a motion on Wednesday, September 21st claiming a rules violation in the Plaintiff’s amended complaint against the company in the United States District Court of Connecticut.

WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt argued that WWE respectfully seeks the Court’s guidance on how best to move forward in light of the procedural quagmire caused by the Plaintiff’s filing of detective pleadings, while the company have said that they will not formally respond to the amended complaint by the deadline of October 10th until the claimed issue is resolved.

Meanwhile, attorneys for Bagwell and Raven filed a reply the following day, Thursday, September 22nd, accusing thr WWE of misinterpreting the law and misconstruing the facts of the amended complaint to mislead the court. Their attorney Brenden Leydon wrote, “As appears to be a disturbingly common practice of this Defendant, they attempt to prejudice the Court by injecting outrageous claims of knowingly false allegeations and misleadingly assert that Plaintiff’s counsel acknowledged this. The real facts are that Defendant improperly served a Rule 11 motion of Plaintiff’s counsel falsely asserting among other claims that WWE has no royalty obligation to Bagwell (despite them actually paying royalties to him in 2016).”

For those unfamiliar with the story, Bagwell and Raven are suing the WWE for WWE Network royalty payments on behalf of themselves and other former wrestlers similarly situated, with their attorneys concluding their response that the Court should enter an order granting its Motion to Amend its Complaint, despite the WWE’s misguided objections. The WWE meanwhile, in a response to the recent update to the lawsuit, filed a corporate disclosure statement today, noting that the company is a publicly traded corporation with no parent corporation and that no publicly held corporation owns 10% or more of its stock.