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As if you need more proof that stupid people exist in this world…
According to this enticing piece of literature, several teenagers who played out a backyard wrestling match (you know, the fake kind where stupid people mame themselves with thumbtacks and other dangerous objects) in a cemetary might be facing criminal charges. Well judging from their choice of venue, they must have been Undertaker fans…
2010 Update: Seriously, does backyard wrestling even exist anymore? I would think that the urge to create makeshift rings and produce XPW-quality garbage shows have subsided itself now that sports-entertainment is no longer the hottest thing around anymore.
In other news… WWE.com reports that Saturday Night Main Event, the monthly show on NBC that aired in the eighties, will be returning in March. Now I may not be old enough to have seen an episode of the show in its prime, but am wise enough to know that some famous events occured on that series run. Now what wonderful new moments might happen? Who knows? As long as it doesn’t involve the current crop of subpar wannabe wrestlers…
Also, this other tidbit from insidepulse.com:
PWInsider.com is reporting that, on November 2, WWE registered the trademark “WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION”, with the usage explanation being, “Entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events rendered live and through the media of television; providing wrestling news and information via a global computer network.”
Of coures, WWE is prohibited from using the WWF name due to the lawsuit that they lost with the World Wildlife Fund a few years ago, so whether this is being done for 24/7, DVD or other reasons is unknown at this point.
This isn’t anything major. Recent DVD releases have had the term “World Wrestling Federation” mentioned a few times already. My understanding is that they couldn’t use the WWF initials, but the long name was okay… unless the Pandas are opening their own World Wrestling Federation.
Pandamania ain’t runnin’ wild.
2010 Update: Presumably, the only reason for this move is purely so that WWE prevents anyone from using the name as the basis of their own upstart promotion… which would be a conflict of interest. It makes sense; how would you like it if you got tickets to a World Wrestling Federation event in 2010 and discovered it to be a backyard wrestling show? You’d be pretty pissed.
So this copyright move? A smart, safe thing to protect the consumer from those who would use a recognized brand to advertise their own shitty product.
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