After winning this round of the dismissal of the 60 plaintiffs claims in the Laurinatis case, WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt was not cheerful about the outcome, after reading the wrestlers lawyers statement he called for Mr. Kyros to be Disbarred and added this odd quote: “This is the same kind of drivel Kyros pawned off on former wrestlers when soliciting them to sue WWE by false statements that he had obtained a billion dollar settlement for NFL players and would do the same for wrestlers, when in fact he had absolutely nothing to do with getting that settlement,” said McDevitt…. Frankly, he should be disbarred.”
It is unclear what led Mr. McDevitt to bring up comparisons with the successful outcome in the NFL Settlement. The contrasts between the WWE and NFL treatment of their former athletes would probably be best avoided by Mr. McDevitt. As many of Mr. Kyros’ NFL player clients have already received substantial compensation from settlement payments, and Mr. Kyros’ WWE wrestler clients which on their face have much more compelling claims than the NFL situation, have received zilch. So the optics are not really that great for WWE on this point.
