WWE has locked down a new trademark related to the name of an old WCW pay-per-view event.
This SuperBrawl event ran from 1991 through 2001. The inaugural main event was Ric Flair vs. Tatsumi Fujinami for the WCW and NWA World Heavyweight Championships. The last show was Scott Steiner vs. Kevin Nash in a Retirement match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in the headliner. This was one of WCW’s flagship shows.
When WWE acquired WCW, they also owned its trademarks for several years. Before his return to WWE in 2022, Cody Rhodes tried to get the rights to the name in addition to other WCW PPV themes that his father helped create in 2019, only for the two sides to reach a settlement. WWE gave Cody the trademark rights to the Cody Rhodes name and several WCW-themed events that he had tried to gain ownership of.
WWE filed for the trademark on July 2 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for broadcast media. Here is the trademark:
“Exhibition of professional wrestling events rendered through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing wrestling news and information through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information.”
The “Who Killed WCW?” docuseries premiered on Vice TV last month, covering the promotion’s rise and fall. The likes of The Rock, Kevin Nash, Eric Bischoff, Konnan, Madusa, and more are interviewed for the docuseries.
