NXT talent Lexis King (Brian Pillman, Jr.) has announced that his father, Brian Pillman will be part of the WWE 2K26 video game.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a dream of mine to reclaim my birthright and take what belongs to me in the WWE, and that dream is quickly becoming a reality because I just heard through the grapevine that the WWE 2K26 Ringside Pass number three is going to include the legendary Brian Pillman. That’s right. You’re gonna get to play as me, you’re gonna get to play as my father, and you’re gonna get to play with us as a tag team, and of course, you’re gonna make us the tag team champions because it belongs to us and it is my birthright.”
Brian Pillman is a former NWA US Tag Team Champion, former NWA World Tag Team Champion, former WCW World Tag Team Champion and a former two-time WCW Light Heavyweight Champion.
Pillman passed away on October 5, 1997 at the age of 35. An autopsy revealed Pillman’s cause of death was due to a heart attack caused by previously undetected atherosclerotic heart disease. Bottles of painkillers and muscle relaxers were found in Pillman’s hotel room along with nonlethal traces of cocaine were also found in his system.