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Kemo
12-11-2019, 08:31 PM
WWE recently filed trademark applications to protect the names of several former events held by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).

The filings come shortly after news broke that Cody Rhodes filed trademark applications for several former WCW events, including SuperBrawl, Slamboree, Bash at the Beach and The Match Beyond (a reference to the WarGames gimmick match).

AEW’s Bash at the Beach will take place on January 15th, 2020 from Miami.

On December 6th, 2019 WWE filed to trademark the following event names:


Anarchy Rulz
Beach Blast
Capital Combat
Chi-Town Rumble
Fully Loaded
Greed
Hardcore Heaven
Heat Wave
Hog Wild
Living Dangerously
Massacre on 34th Street
Mayhem
New Blood Rising
Road Wild
Sin
Souled Out
Spring Stampede
Uncensored
World War 3

The trademark applications all list the following usage:

“A show about professional wrestling; the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events rendered live and through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing wrestling news through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing information in the fields of wrestling through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing a website in the field of wrestling.”