Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 8 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: Didn't Vince want to change CM Punk's name but then Paul Heyman convinced him otherwise? I'm sure I remember hearing that Vince wanted to have Punk be the poster boy for WWECW when they restarted it and Heyman convinced Vince to let him keep his name because "it's what the original ECW would have done and it's keeping it's spirit alive". I knew Heyman was behind him keeping it, but I didn't know that that was what happened. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) Well I’m sure this’ll put to bed all those ‘rumours’ of Undertaker going to AEW Edited February 15, 2019 by WyattSheepMask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 I'm sure he talks about it on the CM Punk: Best In The World DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 If Cody has a legal right to perform as "Cody Runnels Rhodes" but has chosen to be known just as "Cody", I have questions about his ability to co-run a major company. Just "Cody" is a dreadful name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Blog Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Worked for Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 That Kane fella did alright for himself, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 2 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said: Well I’m sure this’ll put to bed all those ‘rumours’ of Undertaker going to AEW It’s what started them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Statto said: If Cody has a legal right to perform as "Cody Runnels Rhodes" but has chosen to be known just as "Cody", I have questions about his ability to co-run a major company. Just "Cody" is a dreadful name. He’s spent the last two years building recognition with it, and when needed to use a surname gets Brandi in to be “Cody & Brandi Rhodes”. He gets the best of both with Just being Cody for now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 5 hours ago, chokeout said: There's no way Cody would've said that in person. At best, he'd have said "Do your rethearch fuckfaith." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members unfitfinlay Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 6 hours ago, BomberPat said: A lot of this stuff is down to marketing/merchandising though. WWE owned the rights to produce merchandise of the name Cody Rhodes. Cody doesn't own that. Because, legal name or not, the merchandise-able property "Cody Rhodes" is a WWE creation. In Brandi's case, she never used the name Rhodes in WWE - she was either Brandi or Eden Stiles, so they never owned or attempted to own it. Dusty didn't create the surname "Rhodes", he created and owned the name "Dusty Rhodes" just as WWE created and owned the name "Cody Rhodes". Is it a dick move? Sure. But is the law on WWE's side? It's probably going to lean that way. No, I get that. My point is that it's very hard to argue that WWE "created" the Cody Rhodes" name in any way, shape or form. It's not like they were sitting in a booking meeting trying to work out who should play the character of Dusty Rhodes' son, and then went "Oh shit! We've got his actual son in developmental! What a coincidence!". They took the son of Dusty Rhodes and brought him in as the son of Dusty Rhodes. It's similar to Warrior's lawsuit. He won because he could prove that the Ultimate Warrior character wasn't an original creation. At the very least, I'd argue that he's got a strong fair use claim considering his Dad created the name and is the sole reason that it has any value. That's very easily proven. Off the subject slightly, I remember reading a story in an old Observer about a wrestler who sent in tapes of him performing as "The Repo Man". The WWF liked the gimmick, but hated the guy so trademarked it and sent him a cease and desist. Poor guy must've been gutted when Darsow started using it. 50 minutes ago, Statto said: If Cody has a legal right to perform as "Cody Runnels Rhodes" but has chosen to be known just as "Cody", I have questions about his ability to co-run a major company. Just "Cody" is a dreadful name. He does, in theory, but he'd almost certainly need to fight WWE in court, which would cost a fortune and a shit load of time and effort. Maybe the Khan's will take on the case if AEW gets off the ground, though I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUM Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Did someone actually just post The Undertaker getting announced for Starrcast after 3 pages of discussion on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Blog Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Didn’t hear the gong it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 I did. It’s been a couple of weeks since someone last posted that Spider-Man duplicity pic and I don’t want you guys getting rusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPDTT Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 Those Starrcast II tickets are pricey.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted February 16, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 16, 2019 2 hours ago, MPDTT said: Those Starrcast II tickets are pricey.... Someone on Twitter probably still thinks they're too cheap though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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