John Laurinaitis Hoping To Get Involved With Big Time Wrestling Promotion: “My One Love Is To Help & Develop & Groom Young Talent”

Laurinaitis is making a public appearance.

Former WWE executive John Laurinaitis is going to be making his first public appearance since he was named in fellow former WWE employee Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit. Laurinaitis has since been dropped from the suit after agreeing to provide evidence for Grant’s case against Vince McMahon and WWE.

Laurinaitis is scheduled to appear at Big Time Wrestling’s March 14th event in Ohio. He shared that around that time, The Road Warriors (Animal & Hawk) will be posthumously inducted into the Ohio Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. John is the brother of the late Animal, real name Joe Laurinaitis.

John said the following to the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling:

“March Madness is gonna be historic in a sense that it’s actually my first-ever public appearance for a company, and part of the (reason) I’m doing that is because of — it’s kind of just ironic that The Road Warriors are gonna be inducted into the Ohio Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, and actually there’s a match, a tribute to the Road Warriors so it’s kind of nice that my first appearance is gonna be actually something that is honoring my brother.”

Laurinaitis added that he’s hoping to get involved with the Big Time Wrestling promotion in some capacity. He brought up his past running WWE’s developmental system.

“I think the way Big Time Wrestling — and I’ve had discussions with Bobby (Fulton) and Dillon (Hines), and you know, what they’re looking to do is make it a place to be, so to speak. In other words, there’s ideas of maybe having international talent come in, having more high-profile names come in, and I’m really looking forward to their future, and hoping that somehow I can be part of that, whether it’s behind the scenes or help them with promoting and stuff like that because I think the more places for talent to work, the better opportunity it is for the business and I don’t know if everybody realizes this but, I ran the developmental system for WWE for 20 years. So, my one love is to help and develop and groom young talent, and that’s what I think is the strategy for Big Time Wrestling now is to find younger talent and develop them into the stars of tomorrow.”

In the initial lawsuit filing from Janel Grant, she shared that there was a point when Vince McMahon directed her to begin having sexual relations with John Laurinaitis.

She would meet Laurinatis in hotel rooms, and she relayed to McMahon that she’d leave those rooms feeling bad about herself. Janel was transferred from WWE legal to Talent Relations because McMahon felt her presence was getting in the way of the company’s hiring of a legal counsel. She reported directly to Laurinaitis and was promised she’d be promoted to Vice President. In June 2021, both Laurinaitis and McMahon allegedly forced themselves onto Grant.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.