Paid Members garynysmon Posted May 5, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2023 (edited) Today marks 21 years since the WWF became WWE. Biggest downgrade ever or what?! Going from a distinguished sounding federation' to 'we all know its bollocks don't we' entertainment marked a dark day in my house! The only positive being that due to both UK boom periods happening before the change, it shall forever be known by our parents and commentators of proper sports at any sign of a fight as the WWF. Not going to lie, 21 years on and WWE still sounds a bit awkward to me. Edited May 5, 2023 by garynysmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted May 5, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2023 I’ll never understand the logo, and why it was reduced to essentially just “WW”. We went on a family holiday to Florida at the start of May 2002. I remember being giddy at being able to watch WWF at the “proper” time. I put RAW on, my mum sees the logo and asks “Is it just ‘WW’ now?” and I was equally dumbfounded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 People calling it 'The WWE' still irks me. It was 'the' WWF. It's WWE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 (edited) I remember watching Judgement Day 2002 with the other kids on the street and we were sort of numbed to how stupid everything had become since the WCW buyout anyway. The average age was eleven so we took it in stride and never looked back. In fact for me WWF sounds more like the Captain America bloodsports smut show your parents weirdly tolerated so it goes to show how age is everything. But yeah, I remember a vignette where a lady trimmed her bush (was this the mini period where Russo was back?) to chop the 'F' off and then poured gasoline on it and set it on fire. Honestly it just felt like another angle. We'd been through Shawn Stasiak showing up in the garden, the amount of world titles on Raw doubling, then coming together again, then this Hulk Hogan guy my granda used to love being massive again, Austin suddenly being a mid-card comedy heel...2002 was fucking numbing. One of the best years ever. Edited May 5, 2023 by Gay as FOOK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted May 5, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2023 I remember a weird time between the WCW buyout and the F getting out when my Sky Planner and channel guide had all their programmingiates as WWFE. They were called World Wrestling Federation Entertainment for a little bit weren't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Everyone I know who doesn’t follow wrestling still call it WWF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted May 5, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Snitsky's back acne said: People calling it 'The WWE' still irks me. It was 'the' WWF. It's WWE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted May 5, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 5, 2023 3 hours ago, Your Fight Site said: I’ll never understand the logo, and why it was reduced to essentially just “WW”. We went on a family holiday to Florida at the start of May 2002. I remember being giddy at being able to watch WWF at the “proper” time. I put RAW on, my mum sees the logo and asks “Is it just ‘WW’ now?” and I was equally dumbfounded. Same here. Would it really have been too much effort to add a line to the F to turn it into an E? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daaaaaad! Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 Appropriately enough, Bad Bunny was wearing a WWF jacket on SmackDown that they were censoring in all the post-match clips. I thought that they had reached an agreement with the wildlife fund to use their old logo? There have been several instances lately of the old logo, both bar and scratch, being censored again and I wasn’t sure why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Poster Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 I remember Shawn Michaels when he first came back calling it the WWF in an promo and having to correct himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEGIT Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 No one likes change. Including me. WWF was a better name, it sounded better and nowadays it brings back memories of better times in the company. I still call Starburst Opal Fruits as well, but I'm not old enough to be a Marathon over Snickers man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted May 6, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 6, 2023 I think it happening in 2002 was a sign of things to come. The wheels had started coming off in 2001 but by 2002 it felt very much like "ok chaps we gave you 4 good years but times up, WWF is gone and it's time for Ruthless Aggression...you're going to fucking hate it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallicks Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 Correlation doesn’t equal causation and all that, but the start of the creative decline more or less coincided with the change. So it’s always felt, to me, that the name change was at least partially responsible for the product becoming less engaging. And as @LEGIT says, WWF just sounds better. I’m still in agreement with a sign in the crowd a week or two afterwards that read “Get the ‘F’ in”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTXRussomark Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 48 minutes ago, Daaaaaad! said: Appropriately enough, Bad Bunny was wearing a WWF jacket on SmackDown that they were censoring in all the post-match clips. I thought that they had reached an agreement with the wildlife fund to use their old logo? There have been several instances lately of the old logo, both bar and scratch, being censored again and I wasn’t sure why. Didn't the deal only cover legacy usage (e.g. airing old events on the network) and anything deemed to be "new" was still restricted? Would explain why they'd censor the jacket here, but not sure how consistent they've been with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted May 6, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 6, 2023 10 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said: I remember a weird time between the WCW buyout and the F getting out when my Sky Planner and channel guide had all their programmingiates as WWFE. They were called World Wrestling Federation Entertainment for a little bit weren't they? World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc was the "proper" name of the company from '99 onwards, the name being changed from Titan Sports Inc a little before the IPO on the stock exchange, presumably for recognition purposes there. I definitely recall a few weeks of crossover on the EPG, yeah. Although I don't think they ever said/displayed WWFE on the programming itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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