A lawsuit against TKO Group Holdings, WWE and video game publisher 2K Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive has been dismissed with prejudice after an independent promoter. alleged copyright infringement in Bloodline’s entry sequenceused both on WWE programming and in the 2K game.
According to PWInsiderA lawsuit filed by Nathaniel Tata-Nananji, an independent promoter for WCWA Wrestling in Arkansas, was dismissed with prejudice on September 10. The judge ruled that there was no “copying of constituent elements” of the entry compared to Tata-Nananji’s original work.
Tatha-Nanandji alleged in the 30-page lawsuit that WWE took intellectual material from its events with WCWA to gain access to a faction known as Tier 1 and used it in storylines on WWE programming Bloodline. The lawsuit detailed what Tata-Nananji believed was taken from his ideas and how he believed the Bloodline entry copied his sequence created for Tier 1.
The plaintiff claimed to own the audio-visual login sequence, which he created in April 2019 and used until 2021. Tata-Nananji claims that WWE began using a similar sequence for Bloodline in September 2021, after a WWE employee attended a WCWA event and “observed” the promotion. Tata-Nananji notified WWE of the alleged infringement in October 2025, following the first cross-referencing of the sequences in early 2024, but said WWE continued to use it.
According to PWI, a settlement conference is scheduled for next month. Because the lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice, it cannot be refiled in the same court, in this case the Western District Court of Arkansas. Tata-Nananji initially requested a jury trial.
