why did it go from WWF to WWE???

[boss]

i dont follow wrestling but i was just wondering why the name change?

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

The World Wildlife Fund has been bitching and moaning since they had the WWF accronym 1st. They cool were with Vince using the letters WWF until the WWF/WWE started getting raunchy.

 

[Rex]

B/c of that fucking organization, and its god damn Panda.

 

[boss]

The World Wildlife Fund has been bitching and moaning since they had the WWF accronym 1st. They cool were with Vince using the letters WWF until the WWF/WWE started getting raunchy.

what a bunch of babies!!!!! by the way you look good bro......well if that you in the avatar........good work

 

[u4ik_RAGE]

I were talking about going with WWFE for about a year. I guess that didn't satisfy the other WWF.

 

[Frackal]

What a bunch of hoes

 

[big4life]

I don't really care about wrestling, but I have to say that I am glad that Vince didn't get his way in this instance.

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

what a bunch of babies!!!!! by the way you look good bro......well if that you in the avatar........good work

Thanks. Yes that's me.

 

[StoneColdGold]

so what the hell does the "E" stand for???

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

Wow all you have to do it go to the website.

WWE = World Wrestling Entertainment

And I think everyone agrees it's pretty stupid.

 

[Icon]

Back in 1994, Vince was in Federal Court defending his
ass on a lot of criminal charges (remember Hulk Hogan
saying Vince gave him and all the guys steroids?) ...
about this time the World Wildlife Fund came out with
their own lawsuit, suing Vince for the name. Anyways,
long story short, they entered into an agreement that
admitted that Vince's WWF might cause some market confusion
with the Wildlife's WWF. Vince was just trying to end the
issue so he could concentrate on keeping his ass outta
prison.

Recently, a judge in Europe ruled that the WWF trademark
belonged to the World Wildlife Fund,
prodominantly because of the 1994 agreement. Thus, WWF = WWE. THe reason they
changed it to something so similar was probably because of the
cost. The 'new' logo is just a matter of 'erasing' the F. So the
transition, economically speaking, has been seamless. But shit,
I'd think the WCW logo/brand would be something far better to
go to, since they own that, rather than creating the lame, and
to the masses, unexplained, change to WWE.