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. Information about the various trademark filings for “Bash at the Beach” can be found here.
WWE Trademark Filings
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.”
An example of WWE’s trademark filings (Fully Loaded) can be found here.
