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Post by I *still* ✡ Johnny on May 25, 2011 7:06:13 GMT -5
...Has it really been that long?  Anyway, what were your thoughts when you first saw the F-less product? I remember that on Sky WWF programmes had been billed as "WWFE" for a few weeks before the official change due to the ongoing panda lawsuit. At the time I didn't have the internet so I had to watch Raw to catch up with what was going on in the WWF world. I tuned into watch Raw for the first time in a few weeks (during which time the draft had come and gone and Raw had got a new look) and I saw the "WW" logo and was like "whaa"? (on a side note I thought for a long time that the new look Raw had debuted with the new name). I was actually so unnerved by the name change I tuned out for a few years. I did love the "get the F out" campaign though. |
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Post by Spearmint* on May 25, 2011 7:08:35 GMT -5
Nine years and still people will ask me "Oh you still watch that WWF stuff"?  |
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Post by Ryushinku on May 25, 2011 7:44:41 GMT -5
I remember laughing at lot at the advert, with the jerkass WWF logo chatting up women so badly one of them glassed him.
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Post by DIIV on May 25, 2011 7:58:29 GMT -5
2002, before I really got into wrestling on the 'net, but I vividly remember Directv labeling Smackdown as "WWE Smackdown" and I had no idea why. After seeing a few of the "Get the F out" promos, I realized that it was just a company name change, which was still pretty shocking considering their storied history as the WWF.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2011 8:05:38 GMT -5
The beginning of the end for me as a fan. Not because of the name change itself, but the name change coupled with what I found to be completely subpar television. It almost seemed fitting. I started watching the WWF in 1986, stopped watching the WWF after its name changed. Hogan was the last official "WWF" champion. WCW was gone so the WWF/WCW war was long forgotten. At some point everyone hits a breaking point with wrestling and that was mine.
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Post by Spearmint* on May 25, 2011 8:33:08 GMT -5
The beginning of the end for me as a fan. Not because of the name change itself, but the name change coupled with what I found to be completely subpar television. It almost seemed fitting. I started watching the WWF in 1986, stopped watching the WWF after its name changed. Hogan was the last official "WWF" champion. WCW was gone so the WWF/WCW war was long forgotten. At some point everyone hits a breaking point with wrestling and that was mine. How does someone stop being a fan in 2002 and end up in a "WWE Current" section of a semi-wrestling oriented message board in 2011?  Seriously wondering? |
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on May 25, 2011 8:40:06 GMT -5
I still hate the name WWE and probably always will.
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Post by Free Hat on May 25, 2011 9:07:35 GMT -5
I remember watching Raw that week and just laughing at how desperately JR and King were trying to sell the name change. They'd go out of their way to say "WWE" every second or third sentence for the entirety of the show, and yet JR still kept f***ing up. "WWE- World Wrestling Federa......er Entertainment."
I also distinctly remember that it took them a few weeks to update the plates on all the title belts, and I swear there were at least a few camera men still wearing "WWF Attitude" shirts,
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Post by clifford on May 25, 2011 9:12:21 GMT -5
Everyone that isn't a fan of it seems to still call it WWF anyway
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Post by Jimmy on May 25, 2011 11:49:33 GMT -5
I miss the World Wrestling Federation. Not even so much the WWF initials, but just when the company had a full name that the people in it seemed proud to say.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2011 11:54:20 GMT -5
The beginning of the end for me as a fan. Not because of the name change itself, but the name change coupled with what I found to be completely subpar television. It almost seemed fitting. I started watching the WWF in 1986, stopped watching the WWF after its name changed. Hogan was the last official "WWF" champion. WCW was gone so the WWF/WCW war was long forgotten. At some point everyone hits a breaking point with wrestling and that was mine. How does someone stop being a fan in 2002 and end up in a "WWE Current" section of a semi-wrestling oriented message board in 2011? Seriously wondering? Lol, good question. I am a fan of discussing the 80's and 90's (and I guess 2000-02) and those topics still frequent this section. I generally stay out of any thread that deals with current storylines or characters, unless something big happens (like when Nexus debuted and the forum exploded I read the threads and went to YouTube to see what happened.....but that is a rarity). So I am still a wrestling fan, I guess, just not of anything that happened post-'02. I think I have seen YouTube clips of every "big" moment that happened since then. I just haven't watched the product. |
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Post by chunkylover53 on May 25, 2011 12:00:23 GMT -5
It took me awhile to get use to the name change. I agree that quality of the product went downhill since and never recovered. Its like each year after the WWE name change, the product got progressingly worse and I called it quits alltogether in 2009. I've watched bits and pieces of it since, but it dosen't have the same flare to it it once had.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2011 12:04:17 GMT -5
Who'd have thought 9 years later we'd be getting the orld restling ntertainment out too.
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Post by erisi236 on May 25, 2011 12:30:57 GMT -5
It's still the WWF, I don't care what they say.  |
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Post by angryfan on May 25, 2011 12:39:34 GMT -5
I remember my net being down at the time so I didn't have any access to know about the name change. I tune in Monday night and here the WWE stuff and my brain just went blank on my. I'm like "ok, is my hearing going out, what the hell is going on here?".
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Post by Hawk Hart on May 25, 2011 12:49:14 GMT -5
I found out at school the day after and I seriously thought the kid was ribbing me.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on May 25, 2011 12:55:55 GMT -5
I remember the first Raw under the WWE name they had one of those Hardcore Title segments where the title changes hands approximately 48 times, and Lillian Garcia announced each time "Your new WWE Hardcore Champion.............) just to drill the new name into our heads.
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Post by Jimmy on May 25, 2011 12:58:17 GMT -5
What's weird to me looking back is that the name change wasn't reported on the net until people got to the show that night and it got out to some news sites. But what I find funny is how people like myself watched that previous night's Heat episode (I even have it taped) and it's a regular WWF show but whenever they show the Judgment Day poster and logo it has the WWE logo. Somehow a completely different logo just slipped by all of us.
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Post by Hawk Hart on May 25, 2011 13:00:47 GMT -5
What's weird to me looking back is that the name change wasn't reported on the net until people got to the show that night and it got out to some news sites. But what I find funny is how people like myself watched that previous night's Heat episode (I even have it taped) and it's a regular WWF show but whenever they show the Judgment Day poster and logo it has the WWE logo. Somehow a completely different logo just slipped by all of us. To be fair, I'm not sure if two lines missing is really a completely different logo. |
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Post by alabastergrim on May 25, 2011 13:12:49 GMT -5
Still hate WWE and find it funny that non fans and even some of us will refer to it as WWF.
Besides which, World Wrestling Federation Champion sounds a lot better to me than World Wrestling Entertainment Champion.
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