WWE: Booker T Health Update, Brock Lesnar Removed from WWE 2K24 WrestleMania Cover, WrestleMania 40 Start Time Changed Again

Booker T Health & NXT Absence Update

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer and NXT commentator Booker T underwent a medical procedure this past weekend and is currently expected to be out of action from NXT for the next several weeks.

A recent episode of the Hall of Famer with Booker T & Brad Gilmore podcast featured co-host Booker T providing a health update.

“First of all, I want to thank everybody for all of the support and all the well wishes, telling me to get well and get back on track. I’m going to get back as soon as I can. I’m going to take a couple weeks off, but rest assured, I will be back live and and in living color, doing it like it’s supposed to be done, but I’m going to take these days off to relax. I’m relaxing.

I had a medical procedure. I don’t like putting my business out there. If I was dying, I’ll let you guys know. I ain’t dying, I ain’t dead yet or anything like that. It is something that’s going to keep me down for a couple of weeks. I don’t like being down. I like being on the go and working out. That’s been my thing for forever, being able to get up in the morning and being able to train. Before I go to bed at night, getting in the gym to train. This last month or so, I haven’t been able to do that. Right now, I’m on my way back to getting to that point. I feel good. I’m sore as hell. I feel good. I hate I missed Vengeance Day. The action was action packed. I was sitting and listening, and it just didn’t have the same feel. Wade [Wade Barrett] didn’t have enough rhythm, especially to his cadence. As far as the show goes, awesome show.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Brock Lesnar Removed from WWE 2K24 “40 Years of WrestleMania” Edition Cover

As noted before, WWE dropped their plans for Brock Lesnar to make his return at this past Saturday’s Royal Rumble 2024 event due to his involvement in the recent Vince McMahon sex trafficking lawsuit. Lesnar was recently dropped from WWE’s SuperCard mobile game and from all of WWE’s creative plans for him.

2K Games recently released a new gameplay trailer for WWE 2K24 that was notable for one major change made to the game’s initial advertising.

This change was revealed to be Lesnar being removed from the marketing of the game and also from the cover of the 40 Years of WrestleMania special edition.

Brock Lesnar has been removed from the 40 Years of WrestleMania cover in the gameplay trailer that released today.

On the left is the original cover. On the right is the cover in the trailer. pic.twitter.com/Y9dbAEinaL

— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) February 6, 2024

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WrestleMania 40 Start Time Changed Again

As noted before, WWE recently made the decision for this April’s WrestleMania 40 Kickoff pre-shows and main card to start earlier than usual at 5PM EST for the pre-show and 7PM EST for the main show.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that several readers who have purchased tickets for this upcoming event stated that they recently received official emails from WWE revealing that the start time for WrestleMania 40 was changed again.

Johnson reported that WrestleMania 40’s pre-show is now currently scheduled to start at 4:30PM EST and the main show is now currently scheduled to start at 6:30PM EST for both nights.