MAJOR Court Update for Wes Watson & Larry Wheels…Judge REFUSES to Dismiss Case (Lawyer Breakdown)

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]All right, everybody. I hope everyone's doing all right. Uh, today we got an actual pretty interesting update uh, notable in West Watson's civil case, and I think you'll want to stick through till the end of this video uh, for a special treat regarding the Larry Wills lawsuit against his former friend and business partner, uh, Daniel Ryoff. I'm sure a lot of you have heard about that a bit um either from John Bravo or elsewhere, but just stay tuned. All right, back to West Watson. All right, so what do we have today? We have an order from the judge denying the summary judgement request made by Elevation Fitness. Now, um what we'll see here is that the Miami day judge has officially denied this summary judgement. Um, and the language in this order, which we'll have attached, is actually pretty significant and creates a big problem uh for West moving forward. So, here it's not just the case of the judge saying, "We'll let a jury figure it out."

[00:01:08]No, the judge here specifically identifies multiple factual disputes involving alleged prior violence, alleged gym knowledge, alleged fight challenges, and whether or not this entire altercation was foreseeable.

[00:01:28]So, in lawyer terms, that means there is enough evidence here that I'm definitely not throwing this case out. And when you read the actual wording of the order, it becomes very clear why this is dangerous for the defense, not just Elevation Fitness, who are the who's the party that filed for summary judgement. Okay, so let's break it down. So what happened? Um I think to to to explain what happened first, we need to explain exactly what a motion for summary judgement is. Okay. So, a motion for summary judgement is basically the legal equivalent of telling the uh court that judge listen even if you assume the other side's fact are true they still lose as a matter of law. So often times we'll see this with matters that are past the statute of limitation. So you know one side is basically saying take everything as gospel that they just said. it doesn't matter. Even as law, they still can't prevail. Um, and again, here it's essentially asking the judge to cancel the trial, throw specific charges out or the whole case before it even happens.

[00:02:42]And Elevation Fitness and their uh uh partner company, Elevation Fitness Holdings, that's exactly what they filed. they wanted out of this lawsuit uh before the trial and obviously the court here said no. So we're going to go through a little bit uh uh line by line as to exactly what this document is, what it says, and what's the significance.

[00:03:09]Okay, so we see that it says order denying defendants uh amended motion for summary judgement. So, obviously just by that title alone, you already know who lost this round. Um, now we're going to get into what I find is uh probably the most important part of this actual order. Um, it's sort of where things get interesting because judges, excuse me, are usually extremely careful with their wording. They don't casually list factual disputes unless they believe actual evidence uh exists supporting those disputes.

[00:03:50]And here we see the judge actually writes uh uh verbatim here that the court finds that there are gen uh genuine issues of material fact in dispute as to the following. Um and again that phrase there is incredibly important genuine issues of material fact. So when we translate that when they say genuine issues of material fact here the court is saying the court believes a reasonable jury could potentially side with the plaintiff based on the evidence presented uh at this stage alone. And then the judge here, interesting enough, goes even further. Um, and the judge, excuse me, the judge starts listing reasons uh, one after another here. And we'll get into exactly some of those reasons listed by the court. All right. Notable part here reads whether the defendants knew of the fight challenge being posted by defendant Wesley Watson. So that's not great because now the issue is no longer simply did a fight happen. The issue becomes whether the gym knew about the alleged public invitations or challenges beforehand. Because again here for the gym's purposes, foreseeability is everything. Um if something is foreseeable, businesses generally and may have duties to prevent it. And now the judge is specifically saying that foreseeability is a jury question, which means that this case is very much alive.

[00:05:37]And unfortunately for the defense, courts generally do not love the legal strategy of yes, your honor, our influencer may have publicly invited conflict at the gym, but respectfully, we thought it would build community.

[00:05:52]We're going to get into probably the worst part for uh West Watson here. So um the prior violence and reputation.

[00:05:59]So we see here on the order it says whether the defendants again here the defendants specifically are the gym knew of the alleged prior violent history of Wesley Watson and or defendant Nicholas Delis.

[00:06:16]So that sentence is a bru is brutal u from a litigation standpoint because now prior alleged incidents become relevant.

[00:06:26]And guys, I want you to really notice the wording carefully. Prior violent history. So the court here is acknowledging that there is at least enough evidence for a jury to potentially consider whether the defendants again the gym here knew about the prior violent conduct. And once prior conduct enters uh the case plaintiffs uh uh attorneys become very dangerous because now they're no longer arguing this was some isolated freak accidents. Now they can argue pattern notice, most importantly foreseeability and in turn on the gym side failure to act. So again, it's it's very difficult to counter that with motivational Instagram reels and shirtless speeches with, you know, his buddies in the gym.

[00:07:22]Now, we're going to move on to what I believe is probably the worst line for the defense here. It states whether the defendants knew that defendant Wesley Watson was using the gym to promote violent activity.

[00:07:39]All right, take a second there. That is an unbelievably damaging sentence to appear in a court order because the judge here is effectively saying that there is enough evidence that a jury could potentially conclude that the gym knew violent activity was being promoted there. In this case, that dramatically increases exposure for elevation fitness itself, which indirectly uh very much hurts Wes because now other defendants in the case have stronger incentives to distance themselves from him. So again here cross claims become possible, fingerpointing obviously increases, settlement pressure increases, insurance complications may uh increase and at a certain point defendants stop acting like teammates and start acting like passengers trying to get off the bus before it goes off the cliff. Okay. And finally we also see here the foreseeability and security failures.

[00:08:42]So, this order states whether the altercation at issue was reasonably foreseeable and whether defendants used reasonable efforts to maintain order and or security at the gym. Again, these are sort of your classic negligent security issues. If a jury believes this fight was foreseeable and preventable, liability is going to increase uh uh that that exposure and it becomes very real, especially now when we're combining this with allegations of prior incidents requiring police intervention.

[00:09:19]And again, this is generally uh not the type of I'm sure exposure this gym was hoping uh hoping to gain from having Wes publicly uh I wouldn't say advocating, but but but um clearly made it a thing that this was sort of his gym um that he works out at. And again, maybe at first the gym saw that as great promotion and clearly that's it's no longer the case.

[00:09:46]All right. So, finally here, um, we are reminded here that this matter is set for trial on May 26th, 2026.

[00:09:56]Uh, again, that's coming up here in a couple weeks, guys. So, the judge did not just punt this thing into the future indefinitely. Um, the court denied the motion and basically said, "Congrats, bro. We'll see you at trial." All right, guys. Bottom line here, uh, this order is significant because it keeps, uh, alive the allegations involving prior violence, alleged public fight challenges, foreseeability, and whether the gym knew about it. And when a judge specifically lists those factual disputes in writing, that is not something defense attorneys celebrate, uh, especially this close to trial. All right, guys. So, as you know, we'll be continuing to cover every important filing uh as this case and his criminal case develops uh because at this point, this lawsuit is becoming less about one altercation and more about the entire environment surrounding it. So, please subscribe if you want continued breakdowns of the filing strategy and trial developments.

[00:11:03]All right, who stuck around? Well, for those of you that did uh stick by here till the end, I want to give you guys a quick sneak peek into some upcoming content you can expect regarding uh the Larry Will civil case with Daniel Ryob.

[00:11:19]Um I haven't been too vocal about it yet as it is an active case and I am involved on Daniel's legal team. But what I can what I can tell you is that we had mediation last week and Daniel refused the offer they made. So, now we have Larry Will's deposition scheduled the next couple weeks. We made sure Larry and his legal team are aware that we'll be recording his deposition and posting it on YouTube and other social media platforms. So, stay tuned for that. And down below, I'd love to know if you had a chance to ask Larry Wills anything under oath, what would you choose to ask?