WWE: Penta Dealing with Biceps Injury for Past Three Years, Ring Boys Scandal Lawsuit Against WWE, TKO, Vince McMahon, & Linda McMahon Update, More News

Penta Dealing with Biceps Injury for Past Three Years

Sheamus recently releases a new Celtic Warrior Workout video featuring Penta on his YouTube channel. One of the topics discussed included Penta revealing that he has been working through a biceps injury for the past three years.

“Three years ago, one wrestler kicked me, and broke my bicep.”

Penta also stated that he never got his biceps repaired but he is okay to train.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Ring Boys Scandal Lawsuit Against WWE, TKO, Vince McMahon, & Linda McMahon Update

As noted before, a lawsuit was filed this past October against WWE, WWE’s parent company TKO Group, former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, and Linda McMahon on behalf of the survivors of the infamous WWE Ring Boys scandal in 1992. Additional survivors recently joined as plaintiffs for the lawsuit following the Maryland Supreme Court upholding the Maryland Child Victims Act as being constitutional.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that a Joint Status Report was filed by all of the participants this past Tuesday before the U.S. District Court District of Maryland (Baltimore) based on recent court records.

In the Status Report filing, it was noted that the Maryland Supreme Court had ruled that the State’s Child Victims Act has been upheld and meaning there are no statue of limitations on civil cases brought before the Court. Johnson reported that everyone involved is waiting for the court to end the current stay on the lawsuit.

In the filing, the two sides have agreed that once the lawsuit becomes active again, the defendants will have 45 days to officially respond or file their motions to dismiss the lawsuit. The plaintiffs would then have 21 days to respond back.

Johnson reported that if an amended lawsuit is filed, the defendants would have 14 days to respond to the new amended version.

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WWE News & Notes

Wednesday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Zoey Stark defeating Shotzi in the Finals of WWE’s newest #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Women’s Speed Championship. Stark will be facing off against Candice LeRae for the WWE Women’s Speed Championship on next week’s show on February 26th.

South by Southwest recently announced that their SXSW 2025 festival event on March 7-15 in Austin, Texas will be featuring a panel called “Fashion & Wardrobe Design/Styling in Professional Wrestling.” This panel was announced to be featuring WWE costume designer Sarath “Mikaze” Ton, pro wrestling gear maker Yolanda Jernigan, and Fashion Stylist/Custom Designer King Troi as the guests.

WWE recently released one new video to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was a Six-Man Tag Team match of The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, & Roman Reigns) vs. John Cena, Ryback, & Sheamus from WWE Elimination Chamber 2013.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their NXT Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a singles match of Adam Cole vs. Pat McAfee. The second new video was the full August 21, 2013 episode of WWE NXT.

In response to a fan on Twitter about him being featured on the on-game roster for WWE 2K25, Eric Bischoff clarified that he is currently not under any contract with WWE but still receives royalties whenever his likeness is used by the company. This person stated “@EBischoff I saw you are on the new WWE game roster that was just announced but you have mentioned you have no deal or legends deal. Curious from a business perspective do you get a specific deal for that from WWE or the game company. Thank You.” Bischoff responded stating “I receive royalties whenever WWE uses my likeness. It was a part of my original talent agreement and is/was standard language for talent agreements. I have no contract w WWE. Legends or otherwise.“

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, Ludwig Kaiser gave his thoughts about how he made sure to be there in-person when his girlfriend Tiffany Stratton won the WWE Women’s Championship on the January 3rd WWE SmackDown show. Kaiser stated “It was awesome. I actually flew in because it was a huge, huge moment. Obviously, I was there for her NXT Championship win back then, so I really wanted to be there as well. We have such an amazing product, especially now. But the only thing that really doesn’t do justice is the reaction and the way things sound when you’re actually there live. That moment when she actually turned on Nia was crazy. You had to be there in order to understand that that was really a huge moment. Really doesn’t do it justice on TV. But yeah, it was amazing. I’m so happy for her because I’ve been there for the lows, I’ve been there for the highs. I’ve seen it all very up close, and she created something there. She’s doing amazing.” (Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com)

In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun, Carmelo Hayes gave his thoughts about his current Nothing But Net finisher he uses for his matches and him looking into getting a new finisher in the future. Hayes stated “I mean, I used to do it (‘Nothing But Net’) on the independents but it was a throwaway, you know what I mean? You don’t know better, what’s what and then you get to WWE and your skills get honed and I remember Shawn (Michaels), he was the one — I remember I brought it up. I was like, ‘I can do this move off the top rope,’ and I was working with a bunch of big guys at that time. I was in the Breakout tournament. I was working Josh Briggs and Duke Hudson and Odyssey (Jones) so I was working these huge guys and I remember thinking, I need a finish. Something that I can do and I was like, ‘I can do this move’ and I remember coach (Matt) Bloom mentioned, he’s like, ‘Hey, I just want to let you know, that’s a big move. It’s not a move you’re gonna be able to do every night.’ I was like, ‘Hold on, I don’t plan on it,’ and then Shawn had just been — that was his jam. ‘You gotta have a finish that’s over and everybody knows’ and so he was very adamant, like, ‘You’re hitting your finish, you’re hitting your finish’ and here we are and people think it takes more out of me than it really does. I’ve perfected it. I understand exactly where I need to land so I’m not taking the brunt of it. I understand how far I need — you know what I mean? I can hit it at any point. I’ve done it over a 100 times so I mean, that’s kind of what I’m going with. Now, I am playing with finding a different finish. Because I have a deep moveset that I can throw in there here and there so, I’m looking into something else possibly.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

WWE recently announced one new match for the card of their NXT house show event on February 22nd in Serbring, Florida:

• Lumberjack match – “All Ego” Ethan Page vs. Je’Von Evans