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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 3, 2023 18:32:38 GMT -5
I guess kind of inspired by TNA->Impact->TNA
Also just finding out Kaientai Dojo (K-DOJO) is no more. According to Cagematch.net the company still exist, but is now known as Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW). They changed the name after Taka Michinoku left in 2019 and unless I learn to read Japanese I’m not sure if I’ll ever get the full story behind that. Also, according to Cagematch one of their latest shows drew 51 people.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Nov 3, 2023 18:34:09 GMT -5
WWE.
It’s still wrong. All these years later.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Nov 4, 2023 14:56:45 GMT -5
WWE. It’s still wrong. All these years later. Not if you view it as a merger of all the territories under one umbrella. The WWF was a National wrestling promotion that went International and became Worldwide. The WWWF was a regional Northeast promotion that evolved into the National WWF. WWE is the final evolution of those two along with WCW that itself was a conglomerate of JCP, GCW, CWF, and Mid-South, all formerly NWA territories at different times and ECW that started as a territory in Philadelphia under the NWA banner as well. When the acquisition happened, a name change was appropriate, the WWF was never going to be the same company it had been in 82 when Vince bought it, 87 at its height with Hogan, 92, or 97 when the Attitude Era rose because that common rival in WCW/NWA was gone and wrestling had evolved from territories to Worldwide, National and Independent regional promotions. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Nov 4, 2023 14:59:07 GMT -5
WWE. It’s still wrong. All these years later. Not if you view it as a merger of all the territories under one umbrella. The WWF was a National wrestling promotion that went International and became Worldwide. The WWWF was a regional Northeast promotion that evolved into the National WWF. WWE is the final evolution of those two along with WCW that itself was a conglomerate of JCP, GCW, CWF, and Mid-South, all formerly NWA territories at different times and ECW that started as a territory in Philadelphia under the NWA banner as well. When the acquisition happened, a name change was appropriate, the WWF was never going to be the same company it had been in 82 when Vince bought it, 87 at its height with Hogan, 92, or 97 when the Attitude Era rose because that common rival in WCW/NWA was gone and wrestling had evolved from territories to Worldwide, National and Independent regional promotions. It doesn’t even mean anything. It’s just a set of letters. It was World Wrestling Entertainment for a brief period, but it’s not even that anymore. It’s just letters. |
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Nov 4, 2023 15:31:29 GMT -5
Not if you view it as a merger of all the territories under one umbrella. The WWF was a National wrestling promotion that went International and became Worldwide. The WWWF was a regional Northeast promotion that evolved into the National WWF. WWE is the final evolution of those two along with WCW that itself was a conglomerate of JCP, GCW, CWF, and Mid-South, all formerly NWA territories at different times and ECW that started as a territory in Philadelphia under the NWA banner as well. When the acquisition happened, a name change was appropriate, the WWF was never going to be the same company it had been in 82 when Vince bought it, 87 at its height with Hogan, 92, or 97 when the Attitude Era rose because that common rival in WCW/NWA was gone and wrestling had evolved from territories to Worldwide, National and Independent regional promotions. It doesn’t even mean anything. It’s just a set of letters. It was World Wrestling Entertainment for a brief period, but it’s not even that anymore. It’s just letters. Its literally called World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC. I'm not sure what you're missing |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Nov 4, 2023 15:37:08 GMT -5
It doesn’t even mean anything. It’s just a set of letters. It was World Wrestling Entertainment for a brief period, but it’s not even that anymore. It’s just letters. Its literally called World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC. I'm not sure what you're missing What a LLC is called has nothing to do with what the company is called. |
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Post by Big BosskMan on Nov 4, 2023 16:16:51 GMT -5
Global Force Wrestling.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Nov 4, 2023 19:38:13 GMT -5
Its literally called World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC. I'm not sure what you're missing What a LLC is called has nothing to do with what the company is called. Yikes. |
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Nov 4, 2023 21:14:17 GMT -5
What a LLC is called has nothing to do with what the company is called. Yikes. TNA's corporate name was J Sports and Entertainment until they got bought by Panda Energy. WWWF/WWF's corporate name was Capital Wrestling Corporation until VKM bought it. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 4, 2023 21:38:52 GMT -5
Mid-South/Universal Wrestling Federation. Also just finding out Kaientai Dojo (K-DOJO) is no more. According to Cagematch.net the company still exist, but is now known as Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW). They changed the name after Taka Michinoku left in 2019 and unless I learn to read Japanese I’m not sure if I’ll ever get the full story behind that. Also, according to Cagematch one of their latest shows drew 51 people. Taka left Kaientai in 2019 after it came out that he was having an 'extra-marital affair' (for 8 years), the company removed him from office and suspended his pay for a year in 2018. Taka started a new promotion called Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out (aka. JTO). It's supposed to be 'high-flying puroresu' and matches are submission-only... haven't seen anything from them yet. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 4, 2023 21:41:37 GMT -5
Mid-South/Universal Wrestling Federation. Also just finding out Kaientai Dojo (K-DOJO) is no more. According to Cagematch.net the company still exist, but is now known as Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW). They changed the name after Taka Michinoku left in 2019 and unless I learn to read Japanese I’m not sure if I’ll ever get the full story behind that. Also, according to Cagematch one of their latest shows drew 51 people. Taka left Kaientai in 2019 after it came out that he was having an 'extra-marital affair' (for 8 years), the company removed him from office and suspended his pay for a year in 2018. Taka started a new promotion called Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out (aka. JTO). It's supposed to be 'high-flying puroresu' and matches are submission-only... haven't seen anything from them yet. Thank you for the details. I saw that Just Tap Out stuff on Cagematch, but didn’t know about the extra-marital affair backstory. It looks like Just Tap Out even has a sister promotion to add some more into the mix of puro. |
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Post by The Gallus Mark on Nov 4, 2023 22:48:06 GMT -5
TNA's corporate name was J Sports and Entertainment until they got bought by Panda Energy. WWWF/WWF's corporate name was Capital Wrestling Corporation until VKM bought it. Thank you for relevant examples. I was going to throw out the local ones I know that are hilariously not close to what the business name actually is lol |
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 4, 2023 22:59:10 GMT -5
WWE
It's never sounded right and the full name is kayfabe breaking.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 4, 2023 23:00:02 GMT -5
TNA's corporate name was J Sports and Entertainment until they got bought by Panda Energy. WWWF/WWF's corporate name was Capital Wrestling Corporation until VKM bought it. It was also Titan Sports after VKM Bought it. That said WWE does stand for World Wrestling Entertainment, they just don't say it... sorta like how for a while KFC didn't say what those letters meant either but it still meant Kentucky Fried Chicken or IHOP never using International House of Pancakes. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Nov 5, 2023 2:48:55 GMT -5
WWE. It’s still wrong. All these years later. According to Bruce "Brown Nose" Prichard the name change from WWF to WWE "is the greatest thing that's ever happened to the company." An actual statement he's doubled down on numerous times over the years on his podcast. The shameless stoogery of Bruce is both laughable and infuriating. |
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Post by tafkaga on Nov 5, 2023 9:23:56 GMT -5
WWE. It’s still wrong. All these years later. Not if you view it as a merger of all the territories under one umbrella. The WWF was a National wrestling promotion that went International and became Worldwide. The WWWF was a regional Northeast promotion that evolved into the National WWF. WWE is the final evolution of those two along with WCW that itself was a conglomerate of JCP, GCW, CWF, and Mid-South, all formerly NWA territories at different times and ECW that started as a territory in Philadelphia under the NWA banner as well. When the acquisition happened, a name change was appropriate, the WWF was never going to be the same company it had been in 82 when Vince bought it, 87 at its height with Hogan, 92, or 97 when the Attitude Era rose because that common rival in WCW/NWA was gone and wrestling had evolved from territories to Worldwide, National and Independent regional promotions. The problem with this rationale is that WWE was never presented as a merger of all territories under one umbrella. Completely the opposite, in fact. It was presented as a mighty mainstream entertainment empire, while all those other companies were just (according to WWE) redneck rasslin territories that deserved death. Vince had no respect for any of them, and showed no respect for any of them, even for the company that almost put him out of business. He treated them like invading factions to be promptly humbled and shit out in front of the world. So to go from there and pretend that WWE is an umbrella instead of just the company who helped bury all the other companies and then pissed on their graves would be pretty disingenuous. The only good rationale for WWF to WWE is that they simply couldn't be WWF anymore and WWEntertainment was the best alternative they could come up with. |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Nov 5, 2023 10:08:39 GMT -5
Pedantic question warning: Didn't Vince & Linda incorporate Titan Sports a year or so before they bought controlling interest in WWF? And when they did didn't they dissolve the Capitol Wrestling Corporation? As in Titan was a wholly separate corporation dba WWF than the CWC was.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Nov 5, 2023 10:25:07 GMT -5
TNA's corporate name was J Sports and Entertainment until they got bought by Panda Energy. WWWF/WWF's corporate name was Capital Wrestling Corporation until VKM bought it. It was also Titan Sports after VKM Bought it. That said WWE does stand for World Wrestling Entertainment, they just don't say it... sorta like how for a while KFC didn't say what those letters meant either but it still meant Kentucky Fried Chicken or IHOP never using International House of Pancakes. they stopped saying it after vince's allergy to the word "wrestling" fully developed around 2003/2004 |
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Post by Cyno on Nov 5, 2023 10:32:05 GMT -5
What throws me off about WWE is a lot of people (including me) will still call it "the WWE" when it grammatically makes no sense. The World Wrestling Entertainment.
Bret Hart calling it "the WCW" during his tenure there really had the last laugh all this time.
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 5, 2023 11:32:42 GMT -5
WWE. It’s still wrong. All these years later. Not if you view it as a merger of all the territories under one umbrella. The WWF was a National wrestling promotion that went International and became Worldwide. The WWWF was a regional Northeast promotion that evolved into the National WWF. WWE is the final evolution of those two along with WCW that itself was a conglomerate of JCP, GCW, CWF, and Mid-South, all formerly NWA territories at different times and ECW that started as a territory in Philadelphia under the NWA banner as well. When the acquisition happened, a name change was appropriate, the WWF was never going to be the same company it had been in 82 when Vince bought it, 87 at its height with Hogan, 92, or 97 when the Attitude Era rose because that common rival in WCW/NWA was gone and wrestling had evolved from territories to Worldwide, National and Independent regional promotions. This might have worked in kayfabe had they actually emphasised it on TV and showed respect to the history of all those companies, selling it as a union of different companies under a name that didn't tell the viewers that "hey this is all entertainment". But instead they went with "get the F out". |
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