WWE 2K Lawsuit Regarding Bloodline Has Been Dismissed

In January 2026, Nathaniel Tatha-Nanandji, who promoted WCWA Wrestling in Arkansas, filed a lawsuit against WWE, its corporate owner TKO as well as WWE video game licensee 2K Games, Inc. and several other associated 2K companies.

The lawsuit alleged that Tatha-Nanandji “is responsible for the creative direction, booking, staging, filming, and publishing of WCWA’s events and audiovisual content” and that starting around August 2019, he developed a “distinctive, repeatable visual sequence for a faction in WCWA, known as Tier 1.

According to PWInsider, the court ruled on September 19 that the plaintiffs had no proof that any of the defendants actually viewed the material, so it did not hold up to the scrutiny of the court and that the plaintiff was “asking the Court to make an unsupported leap in the access analysis and to infer access “based on conjecture and speculation.”

The lawsuit has been dismissed with prejudice.

In the lawsuit, Tatha-Nanandji alleged a WWE “employee” attended a WCWA event in March 2019 and maintained contact with him through 2021. The independent wrestler and WWE employee are not named in the lawsuit.

Tatha-Nanandji claimed, “Through these direct and indirect channels, including internal scouting review and publicly accessible WCWA content on platforms such as Facebook and YouTube, WWE and its affiliates had a reasonable opportunity to view, study, and copy the Tier 1 Audiovisual Sequence prior to and during Defendants’ development and exploitation of substantially similar audiovisual content.”

There had been a settlement conference set for October 26.