fukked up situation all around, but isn't this the second or third time he's sworn he was going to stop fukking with them due to some sort of disrespect? At some point, breh just gotta accept that this is who they are. fukk with wrestling companies that seem like they might be happy about fukking with you.
Also, for a guy that's supposed to be about his business, using so much stuff from a publicly traded company and thinking it's gonna slide on some "I'm just paying homage" shyt is unacceptable. Anyone could've told him some version of this day was going to come. Preferably not in such a terribly petty way, but still.
These old school company attitudes to IP make zero fukking sense in 2025 - sure, if dude was selling Roman Reigns t shirts that could step on WWE's business but making music inspired by wrestlers and paying full price to sit ringside does nothing but good for WWE.
Same as these record labels striking reactions from YouTube. It's free publicity 90% of the time, but their IP conversations can only happen in 1990s legalese.
It's because corporate IP/copyright law enforcement is all about precedent. If you sue someone for using your product without proper licensing, their defense will absolutely try to go and find the highest profile examples of someone else blatantly using your IP without permission and you not doing anything about it in order to make the argument that you don't actually care about the IP being used exclusively by you as you say you do. So as a result, IP holders are effectively forced to hit any and everybody they can in order to protect themselves from when someone legitimately rips their shyt off.
But what makes this unique case look funny in the light is that it's not like he was inaccessible to have a simple conversation about cutting that shyt out, or even just paying proper licensing fees, since he was just using photos and audio clips. And even then, issuing a C&D doesn't really require him getting kicked out of a show.