WWE Lawyer Claims Recently Dismissed CTE Lawsuit Was Plagiarised

WWE lawyer Jerry McDevitt has spoken about the CTE lawsuit against the company that was recently dismissed, saying it was plagiarised.

The lawsuit had been headed by Konstantine Kyros, who McDevitt explained had a history of filing lawsuits and was simply trying to take advantage after the NFL paid over $1 billion for a similar case.

Speaking with Wrestling Inc, McDevitt said:

“Well in the beginning, we noticed prior to October of 2014, this Kyros fellow was advertising on the internet and soliciting former wrestlers to contact him to bring lawsuits that would be patterned after the cases that had been brought against the NFL, which if you remember, resulted in the NFL agreeing to pay a billion dollars plus end up settling. And when they did that, they kind of emboldened a lot of the plaintiffs, class action lawyers and what not to sue anybody that had any kind of history with head trauma, concussions or things of that nature. And so they did.

“They brought lawsuits against college football teams in the NCAA and high school teams, water polo. You name it, and Kyros’ solicitations suggested in his website suggested, incorrectly we believe, that he had somehow been involved in obtaining the settlement for the NFL players and would be able to replicate that if only these wrestlers would agree to hire him so he could sue the WWE to get the same amount of money and the same thing for the former wrestlers. So he was basically soliciting them with promises of there’s nothing to lose.

“You can get money out of this, and I’ll take a contingent fee of what I get, but it won’t cost you anything, and he actually went out on radio shows and stuff and podcasts and was making statements to the effect that well, the more people that sign up, the more pressure we can bring on WWE to settle these cases and pay us a lot of money. And we know he had told these people that he would be able to use this litigation to renegotiate contracts that were expired long ago and get them better royalties and a bunch of nonsense frankly.”

He added:

“Kyros got caught in the last lawsuit basically plagiarizing from the lawsuit of the NFL allegations, the allegations that were made against the NFL that resulted in the case being successful against them where the NFL, unlike the WWE, had made various public statements and actually published articles in scientific literature and magazines and whatnot sort of downplaying, if you will the effects of concussions. And Roger Goodell had allegedly made various statements that were alleged in the complaint against the NFL. All Kyros did was he gets ahold of the NFL complaint, and he literally just changes where the complaint would say, ‘Roger Goodell said the following, concussions don’t cause any long-term damage, and it’s safe to go back to work on a day you get a concussion.’ He would just change that to say a WWE representative had said that.

“Just flat-out make up false things like that. The kind of stuff lawyers don’t do, and we brought that to the court’s attention and multiple other violations of his. And he was as a result of his misconduct, sanctioned three different times by the federal judge up there that had control of the case. And is now facing sanctions orders of what we say is going to make him required to pay us hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.”