Ex-WWE, ECW Star Threatens 2K With Legal Action

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Former WWE and ECW competitor Francine Meeks recently threatened to sue the people behind WWE 2K24 over supposedly stealing her trademarked wrestling nickname. Developer Visual Concepts has been showing off more of WWE 2K24 ahead of its March 8 street date, with the game’s entire roster of legendary wrestlers and modern-day superstars being officially unveiled earlier this week.

This includes Liv Morgan, a former Smackdown Women’s World Champion and multi-time WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion who is currently performing on the Monday night Raw brand. Her presence on WWE 2K24’s roster was all but guaranteed given her continued prevalence on WWE programming, and part of her in-game entrance was recently shown off in a social media post. However, this post would lead to a different kind of conflict than the type Liv and her fellow WWE superstars are used to, and it comes from someone who used to be involved in the company back in the mid-2000s.

Francine Meeks, who used to wrestle in the old Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion before having a brief run in WWE from 2005 to 2006, recently took issue with WWE 2K24 after the aforementioned Liv Morgan post referred to her as the “Queen of Extreme.” This was Francine’s moniker back in ECW, and she recently announced on Twitter that she retains the trademark to the name and threatened to take legal action against 2K for using it without her permission.

When fans started to push back against Francine over this, she explained her ownership of the “Queen of Extreme” trademark and voiced concerns about it potentially being used for Liv Morgan in future WWE 2K24 promotional materials and even on official WWE television. 2K eventually relented, taking down the Liv Morgan post at the heart of this possible legal drama and replacing it with one that doesn’t include Francine’s trademarked “Queen of Extreme” nickname, a development that Francine herself expressed satisfaction in yet another Twitter post.

Liv Morgan herself recently