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Post by jomoishollywood on Mar 15, 2008 13:22:34 GMT -5
Speaking of this, the WWE needs a new logo, rofl.
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Post by The UndyTaker on Mar 15, 2008 14:02:14 GMT -5
What does the word "Heel" mean? i keep hearing it! I did a ing spit take on that. Brilliant! ;D
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Post by Batista on Mar 15, 2008 14:26:22 GMT -5
It was all because of that lawsuit and the judge rulled they had to edit the footage of that era with that logo. Completely stupid, they should not have had to edit those years of wrestling history because of some silly logo dispute. They changed the logo and the company name, that should have been good enough. Instead Vince had to spend a lot of money editing all those WWF attitude era tapings.
Credit Wiki:
In 2000, the World Wide Fund for Nature sued the World Wrestling Federation (now named World Wrestling Entertainment) for unfair trade practices. Both parties had shared the initials "WWF" since March 1979. The conservation organization claimed that the wrestling company had violated a 1994 agreement regarding international use of the WWF initials.[8][9]
On August 10, 2001, a British court ruled in favor of the World Wide Fund for Nature. The World Wrestling Federation filed an appeal in October 2001. However, on May 5, 2002, the World Wrestling Federation changed its Web address from wwf.com to WWE.com, and replaced every "WWF" reference on the existing site with "WWE", as a prelude to changing the company's name to "World Wrestling Entertainment." Its stock ticker also switched from WWF to WWE.
Abandonment of the initialism did not end the two organizations' legal conflict. Later in 2002, the World Wide Fund for Nature petitioned the court for $360 million in damages, but the wrestling company prevailed. A subsequent request to overturn by the World Wide Fund for Nature was dismissed by the English Court of Appeals on June 28, 2007. In 2003, World Wrestling Entertainment won a limited decision which permitted them to continue marketing certain pre-existing products with the abandoned WWF logo. However, the wrestling company was obliged to issue newly-branded merchandise such as apparel, action figures, video games, and DVDs with the "WWE" initials. Additionally, the court order required the company to remove both spoken and visual references to "WWF" in its library of video footage (which spans several decades).
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Post by Fiasco on Mar 15, 2008 15:07:28 GMT -5
Its because of the World Wildlife Fund or whatever its called
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Post by wspaman1313 on Mar 15, 2008 16:13:33 GMT -5
Since nobody has said anything,"Heel" means wrestling "bad guy".Example,The Great Khali,Edge,Randy Orton(Big,BIG Heel IMO).
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Post by Here Comes The Pain on Mar 15, 2008 16:22:10 GMT -5
When they first changed to wwe when i was a kid i couldnt understand why there was not a E on the end of the logo.
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Post by kanekilledvince on Mar 15, 2008 20:04:59 GMT -5
Abandonment of the initialism did not end the two organizations' legal conflict. Later in 2002, the World Wide Fund for Nature petitioned the court for $360 million in damages, but the wrestling company prevailed. A subsequent request to overturn by the World Wide Fund for Nature was dismissed by the English Court of Appeals on June 28, 2007. In 2003, World Wrestling Entertainment won a limited decision which permitted them to continue marketing certain pre-existing products with the abandoned WWF logo. However, the wrestling company was obliged to issue newly-branded merchandise such as apparel, action figures, video games, and DVDs with the "WWE" initials. Additionally, the court order required the company to remove both spoken and visual references to "WWF" in its library of video footage (which spans several decades). Do the two highlighted sentences not clash a little bit?
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