Booker T Loses Lawsuit Against Call of Duty

[Chris]

Source: f4wonline.com

Booker Huffman (Booker T) has lost his lawsuit against video game publisher Activision Blizzard over his likeness being used in a Call of Duty video game.

Sportico reported this morning that a jury determined that the character Prophet in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 did not bear any likeness to Huffman's pro wrestling character G.I. Bro, which Booker T used early in his career and later in WCW.

“We are pleased with the outcome,” E. Leon Carter of Carter Arnett, trial counsel for Activision Blizzard, said in a statement. “Bottom line, to call this a frivolous case would be a massive understatement. Activision creates games with the utmost integrity and is extremely proud of everyone involved with the development and creative process for all of our games including Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, including the incredible talent like William Romeo who helped bring our vision to life. Today, the jury validated that process.”

Activision Blizzard argued in court that Huffman had contracted away all rights to the character to WWE and that he had exaggerated similarities between the G.I. Bro character and Prophet. Huffman argued that he only contracted the rights to the G.I. Bro character to WWE when it is used in the context of pro wrestling and that the similarities between G.I. Bro and Prophet were closer than Activision had suggested.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Wow. Figured he win that. Shocking

 

[Chris]

I didnt know whether to put this in video games or some kind of wrestling forum btw

 

[Deezy]

Should've sued because that game was



















[trqs

 

[Lady Redfield]

I have no words, the character looks just like him lmfaoooooo

 

[Butters]

This guy?

I don't see it.

 

[Necro]

Booker was reachinggggg lol.

 

[Lady Redfield]

They changed it, unless it has been updated to not look like him anymore cuz the picture I saw was different. From that pic above, he was definitely grasping.

I mostly stopped playing CoD after Modern Warfare. I played Cold War and finished it, that was about it after MW.

Unless I was looking at a meme that was not clearly a meme cuz it was just a pic of the character with the CoD logo behind it and nothing more lol