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AEW, CFX reach settlement in Luchasaurus mask lawsuit

Posted on by Ian Carey

A settlement has been reached between AEW and CFX over the mask worn by Luchasaurus.

Composite Effects, LLC (CFX) filed a complaint in December alleging the mask is their design and that AEW and Luchasaurus were using it for merchandising purposes without the designer’s permission. 

CFX had granted Luchasaurus permission to wear the mask as a wrestler but allege that neither he nor AEW had the rights to sell merchandise featuring the mask design. The company cited Luchasaurus action figures and t-shirts as examples. 

AEW holds the rights to another mask created by CFX in 2021 for Luchasaurus. However, that mask was used only sparingly with Luchasaurus primarily wrestling in the mask CFX originally designed for him in 2016. 

Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics posted on Thursday that all parties have reached a settlement. 

The Court has been made aware that the parties have reached a settlement. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that this action is dismissed without prejudice to the right, upon good cause shown, to reopen the action or to seek summary judgment enforcing the compromise if settlement is not consummated within sixty days of this order. Each party will bear its own costs. The Court retains jurisdiction for all purposes, including enforcing the settlement agreement entered into by the parties. The parties are reminded that, if witnesses have been subpoenaed, every witness must be informed by counsel not to appear.

AEW, Luchasaurus sued by CFX over mask design

Posted on by Ethan Renner

AEW and Luchasaurus are facing a lawsuit over merchandising rights to the wrestler’s mask design. 

Wrestlenomics reports that mask designer CFX sued AEW and Luchasaurus (real name Austin Matelson) in United States District Court Eastern District of Louisiana in December 2022 seeking profits that the two have earned in using their “Viper Silicone Mask” in merchandising, as well as damages and attorney’s fees. 

The report states that in court documents, CFX said that Luchasaurus was authorized to use the mask as a performer, but that the company retained merchandising rights to the design. A variation of the mask is currently for sale on CFX’s website.

CFX also stated that they attempted to sign a licensing deal with Luchasaurus in 2019, and also designed a new mask that AEW bought the rights to in 2021, but emails from Luchasaurus stated that the original design was “too iconic” to change. 

CFX also alleges in the suit that Luchasaurus approached a second designer in 2022 to create “a near replica” of their design, but the designer refused, stating “It was clear that there were legal issues that needed to be handled prior to my designing a new mask for Matelson.”