World wildlife fund uphappy over wwe name

[Guest]

World Wildlife Fund uphappy over WWE name

Submitted by William Martinez on Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 11:16 PM EST

 

According to recent comments by the World Wildlife Fund, the organization isn't completely thrilled with the new named adopted by World Wrestling Entertainment. The organization was hoping that WWE would have adopted a more distinct name change that as to completely seperate the two brands.

 

 

WWF's legal action against World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc.: Statement following the wrestlers' announced name change

 

5/07/02 10:53am

 

LONDON, England, May 7 /CNW/ - News that the World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. have changed their name and logo in light of recent court action has been received with surprise by WWF, the conservation organization. This unilateral move comes when an application to appeal to the House of Lords by the Wrestlers' is still pending. Yesterday the World Wrestling Federation announced that it was changing its name to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., as well as altering its scratch logo and website domain name - both of which were subject to the case brought by WWF. Paul Steele, Chief Operating Officer for WWF International said: "The fact that the Wrestlers have taken this action is an acknowledgement that the proposed appeal has little chance of success. However WWF was expecting that they would opt for a more distinct name change that would put 'clear water' between our two organizations, to quote one of the judges in the recent court action. We are still considering the implications of this move as the earth's natural environment relies on the public's recognition and trust of a respected, global conservation organization. The Federation's breaches of the 1994 Agreement diluted and tarnished WWF's identity and the messages associated with it. Unfortunately, WWF's repeated requests all failed to convince the Federation to abide by the Agreement that it freely negotiated and signed, and WWF was forced to bring the action.

 

Thanks to 1wrestling.com.

[Guest buffybeast]

Yeah, I heard about this.  Those people need to really get a life.  No one will confuse WWE for their WWF.  Little fuckers.

[Guest]

I still think it's funny that Vince can beat the United States Government lawyers in court, but can't win against a bunch of Panda, anal gang banging, fuckers!

[Guest]

Fuck them.

 

The WWF was willing to play ball after losing out to those hippies, but what more do those retards want. The WWF already changed their identity and pretty much have no name recognition any longer with the rest of the world, outside of wrestling fans.

 

Shit. Vince shoulda just paid them off and came to another agreement of some sort. Now the nature freaks are just gonna keep bitching and moaning until Vince changes up to something else. Meanwhile with the money they spent with this lawsuit they could've skipped past all this unnecessary shit and done something important, like saving some rhinos or whatever it is they're supposed to do with said money.

 

They don't even realize that they're the ones that are coming out of this looking bad. But they don't care, just as long as they get their jollies by acting superior to the WWF and acting like they're better than them. It's entertaining to see Vince get some of his own medicine, with someone else taking him for what he has, but I've never even heard of this group until this whole thing came about.

 

Once again, a big fuck you to the World Wildlife Fund.

[Guest Some Guy]

These stupid Panda fuckers are really pissing me off now.  It's bad enough that they think that a Wrestling company with a very distinct and recognizable logo was forced to change their name because some animal group thought the some retard might confuse the two.

 

SO, Vince changes the naem BEFORE the appeal is decided, a gesture of futility but it was also the right thing to do.  So the Panda Fuckers get what they intially wanted and now they want more. Typical left wing wackos.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

This is laughable, and I can't imagine it could get anywhere if they actually tried to make an issue out of this in court. ATT and ITT had practically the same names and people could tell the difference between them.

[Guest]

FEAR THE PANDA.

 

Sure, panada's are incredibly useless animals (they're total morons when it comes to mating in captivity) but can you name any other animal that has ruined the name of one of popular culture's biggest icons? I fear the panda, Vince should fear the Panda. But most importantly you should fear the Panda, cause when you least expect it, a Panda will leap out and take YOUR name.........*insert some scary music*

[Guest]

I just came from the World Wildlife Federation meeting and they will now be working directly with Vince to preserve the almost extinct Hulkasurus and they are very concernd about all the scalded dogs and pet coons Mr. Ross keeps talking about

[Guest]

I just came from the World Wildlife Federation meeting and they will now be working directly with Vince to preserve the almost extinct Hulkasurus and they are very concernd about all the scalded dogs and pet coons Mr. Ross keeps talking about

Don't forget about the precious Takerdactyl whose habitat (yard) is being "destroyed" by young hosses.

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

Hey, I reported this over on the site, DAMMIT!!!!

 

Me gets no love

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

Aw, gee. Poor Vince. Guy only has millions, you know. Not like he can fight for his own company or anything.

 

Believe me Vince. I'm only $899,999,997.99 poorer than you, give or take a few ten million. I feel for ya, man.

 

 

 

Cry me a river.

[Guest]

Vince should just renamed it the VWF Vince Wrestling Federation. Plus it sort of appears to be the WWF in diguse VWF. Or MWF Mcmachons wrestling federation

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

"Aw, gee. Poor Vince. Guy only has millions, you know. Not like he can fight for his own company or anything.

 

Believe me Vince. I'm only $899,999,997.99 poorer than you, give or take a few ten million. I feel for ya, man.

 

 

 

Cry me a river."

 

Wow that contributed absolutely nothing. Your a poor guy that doesn't like Vince McMahon for some reason, we get it already.

[Guest]

Its true you know the over population of hosses in  Takerdactyl's habitat could be horrible we need to stop breeding these super hosses such as bradsuck and in the winter Unshaven Albert runs wild because he's so suited for the cold enviroment

[Guest]

Wow that contributed absolutely nothing. Your a poor guy that doesn't like Vince McMahon for some reason, we get it already.

Actually, his point is, why make a big deal about the problems of millionaires? Worry about your own life.

 

Get it now?

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

"Actually, his point is, why make a big deal about the problems of millionaires? Worry about your own life.

 

Get it now?"

 

Which is a totally irrelevant point. People are complaining about the WWF-WWE situation because they dislike the name change for personal reasons, not because they feel sorry for anyone.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

Which is a totally irrelevant point. People are complaining about the WWF-WWE situation because they dislike the name change for personal reasons, not because they feel sorry for anyone.

What I'm trying to say is, at this point it's really obvious these people just want cash and were only interested in cash all along.

 

Vince is signing all these new guys to the program, so it's not like he's hurting.

[Guest]

Aw, gee. Poor Vince. Guy only has millions, you know. Not like he can fight for his own company or anything.

 

Believe me Vince. I'm only $899,999,997.99 poorer than you, give or take a few ten million. I feel for ya, man.

 

 

 

Cry me a river.

That's not the point at all, as I for one, don't feel sorry for Vince in the least.

 

Many of us, I'm sure, love to see McMahon get beaten at his own game. The point, is that the hippies are being somewhat unreasonable about this whole deal.

 

The Federation broke an agreement between themselves and the Fund, true. The Fund took action, and sued the WWF. The Fund won. The Federation, appealed, but realized it was futile in the end, so they chose to change their name. This is all the Fund really wanted in the first place...they didn't want to be associated with the WWF. The Federation changed their name in good faith, rather than encounter any more problems. And NOW the hippies aren't even happy with that conclusion.

 

It all seems a little silly, and that's my main beef with the Fund at his point.

[Guest areacode212]

I sort of agree with the WWF (Wildlife), but for different reasons. WWFE should have chosen something completely different and cool, not "WWE". Why does it even have to be a 3-letter acronym? PRIDE has a cool name...I'm sure someone in Marketing could have come up with something better than WWE!

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

I doubt they just want money, because if they did Vince would have payed them off long ago. Extremists are a quirky bunch and you can never rationalise with them.

[Guest]

I really don't think anyone ever mistook the World Wildlife Federation for the World Wrestling Federation but i agree with Hogan Made Wrestling they don't want money they seem to be on a power trip and the courts are with them so WWEgh will have to put up with there bullshit for a while or until they find a better cause which i'm sure they could find with no problem

[Guest Human Fly]

There's just no pleasing some people. If the Wildlife Fund wanted the WWF to adhere to strict standards then they should have laid them out. It's like when you were a kid and thoughout the game you get the one whiner who is always trying to change the rules. Eventually you have to kick him out of the game and send him home.

[Guest]

Bastards.  If they cared about the goddamn animals they would have came to some type of monetary settlement. Like a million a year for each year the WWF uses the trademark outside of the US kindof like a licensing deal.

[Guest]

This thing couldn't be funnier if someone was scripting it.

 

It also gets a chuckle from everyone I mention it to who couldn't care less about wrestling...big tough VKM jobbing to a bunch of tree-huggers.

 

20+ years of brand name recognition down the tubes.

 

I'm glad this is happening to Vince.  I watched a bit of the NBC 75th anniversary and even they could acknowledge mistakes (XFL), recognize the contributions of past stars who left for other networks (Letterman, Cosby, etc.) and generally be respectful of the past.  Vince can't/won't do any of that, mostly because of his pettiness.  Because of the way he is as a person, I wouldn't want to be him, even for the money.  It's that simple.  Most of his recent sketches on Smackdown reveal a seriously disturbed/mentally ill individual.  He's watching his life's work (the building up of the WWF "brand name") get jobbed out to bleeding-heart tree-huggers.  Good.

 

Sit there and take it wrestling fans, that's all you can do.

[Guest]

in a way its sad that the wwf had to change to the horrible wwe its like the end of an era but at least now we can remember wwf as the good old days and wwe now repersents the decline that wrestling is going through right now

[Guest AM The Kid]

I look at it this way:

 

If Mcdonals bought out Burger King and Harveys last year and shut both of them down but took their best employees. Earlier that year they also tried to start up a new pizza chain that failed horribly. Then suddenly in the next year a big kilt making company called Mcdonalds that has been around before Mcdonalds decides to sue for the name. Mcdonalds loses a court case and renames themselves "Faster Foods" losing the trademark Golden Arch logo and their name.

 

Thats basically whats happened to the WWF latley.

[Guest]

Bastards.  If they cared about the goddamn animals they would have came to some type of monetary settlement. Like a million a year for each year the WWF uses the trademark outside of the US kindof like a licensing deal.

Uh...why do you have the WWF logo as your avatar then?

[Guest]

I hate the World Wildlife Fund. Those stupid panda lovers changed the name of one of the greatest wrestling federations ever. I wish someone ran the World Wildlife Fund out of business forever. All those panda lovers do is cry just because someone's using their same initials. I wish someone killed all the people at the World Wildlife Fund and panda bears.

[Guest El Satanico]

Why aren't more people blaming Vince and his ego for all this name business?

 

Vince didn't have to originally name it WWF. Vince is the one that did something to break the agreement that WWF had with the Wildlife people which allowed Vince to use the WWF name without any legal problems. Blame Vince for taking it to court confident that he couldn't lose. Blame Vince's ego for making him believe that he was so big that he could do anything he wanted and no one could stop him.

 

I think we all know why Vince broke the agreement. He thought he was big enough to beat the Wildlife people and why should he keep paying these people this money. If Vince wouldn't had screwed with the agreement he'd still have his WWF name.

 

World Wildlife Fund was around before WWF so they had every right to sue. You all damn well know Vince would do the exact same thing.

 

As far as people complaining that it killed all the tradition. Well if Vince really cared about tradition he would've made WWFE the full time name, would've renamed it WWWF or hell he could've even took WCW's name. It's pretty obvious that Vince doesn't care about tradition and he has shown this on many occasions.

 

By the way all this talk about using violence, killing people or killing animals over a fucking letter is simply moronic. The idiots that are saying it are making all wrestling fans look like a bunch of dumbass rednecks. So unless you're indeed a dumb redneck who can't help it stop this stupidity and grow the hell up.

 

in closing...

 

"It's a letter now grow the hell up and get over it"

[Guest]

Bastards.  If they cared about the goddamn animals they would have came to some type of monetary settlement. Like a million a year for each year the WWF uses the trademark outside of the US kindof like a licensing deal.

Uh...why do you have the WWF logo as your avatar then?

Spite