View Full Version : Do Not Call WWE A Wrestling Company
Dirk Ziggler
03-21-2011, 02:35 AM
Credit: TV Week
WWE sent a demand to a website that called them a wrestling company to change their wording. TVWeek.com had a headline that ran “‘Drew Carey inducted into pro wrestling Hall of Fame.” According to the site, they received an email from WWE publicist Kellie Baldyga, ordering them to change the headline because “We are no longer a wrestling company but rather a global entertainment company with a movie studio, international licensing deals, publisher of three magazines, consumer good distributor and more.”
The publicist further said “No, we don’t do wrestling events. They’re entertainments. And we don’t call them wrestlers. They’re superstars and divas.”
TVWeek refused the request and removed the article rather than change the headline.
Isn't the WWE going a bit far here? They're a fucking wrestling company I don't care what 2nd name lables they throw out. That's just retarded. Last I knew the second "W" in "WWE" stood for Wrestling.
Lara Emily
03-21-2011, 02:44 AM
LOL wtf, not calling it wrestling isn't gonna make people not think it's wrestling
They should take out all wrestling and see how many people will continue to watch their show.
PS I guess this makes TNA the #1 Wrestling company in North America*blech*
Fignuts
03-21-2011, 02:45 AM
Good lord, this is really getting silly.
Dirk Ziggler
03-21-2011, 02:48 AM
They need to change the company name....Again. "WEE" World Entertaining Entertainment
dronepool
03-21-2011, 02:54 AM
World Wide Entertainment
Seth82
03-21-2011, 02:58 AM
WSE
World Sports Entertainment
Troelar
03-21-2011, 06:10 AM
I would love for TNA to start advertising themselves as the #1 wrestling company in America. Just to see what WWE would do :D
Majunior
03-21-2011, 06:26 AM
No really, WWE is now gonna get heat like the Rock for essentially burying the industry and distancing himself from wrestling and the fans in his attempts to go legit and not be viewed as "wrasslin'." Only now it's the company distancing itself from... itself... and its fans...
The MAC
03-21-2011, 06:31 AM
the ring will soon be changed into a podium since its all about talking anyway
Londoner
03-21-2011, 06:36 AM
WWE is a wrestling company.
Hope Vince reads this and gets really mad now. :cool:
Rammsteinmad
03-21-2011, 06:59 AM
I would love for TNA to start advertising themselves as the #1 wrestling company in America. Just to see what WWE would do :D
Yeah, this would be pretty cool if TNA did that. I doubt WWE would respond, but TNA should do it anyway.
The MAC
03-21-2011, 07:30 AM
i think they are the best WRESTLING company (in ring product for the most part), They are the worst in sports entertainment
Aguakate
03-21-2011, 07:34 AM
I doubt this publicist would take it upon herself to do this without Vince knowing, so...
...I wonder if Vince McMahon is "ok" mentally...
Lara Emily
03-21-2011, 07:43 AM
i think they are the best WRESTLING company (in ring product for the most part), They are the worst in sports entertainment
On Paper TNA is yes the best in ring product in reality though their booking is so bad the in ring product ends up sucking too.
kareru
03-21-2011, 08:02 AM
We are no longer a wrestling company but rather a global entertainment company with a movie studio, international licensing deals, publisher of three magazines, consumer good distributor and more.”
apart from the movie studio aren't all of those 'arms' of the company wrestling related
theregulator
03-21-2011, 08:27 AM
this is a bit funny. and gooooooooooooooood morning people
http://twitter.com/kbaldyga
The blonde in question.. Looks hot from that picture though.
voncouch
03-21-2011, 09:33 AM
Good job, WWE. Work like hell and pull every stupid gimmick so the mainstream media runs your story. Then when they do, bitch about the wording and get it pulled. Good PR. You should get plenty of more articles about you in the future.
And referring to WWE as an entertainment company and completely throwing out the wrestling is like McDonalds calling itself a health food store because they sell salads.
Innovator
03-21-2011, 09:44 AM
http://twitter.com/kbaldyga
The blonde in question.. Looks hot from that picture though.
Zumba teacher? legend is gonna be all about her.
Theo Dious
03-21-2011, 09:51 AM
I would love for TNA to start advertising themselves as the #1 wrestling company in America. Just to see what WWE would do :D
"Welcome to TNA Impact, the highest rated wrestling program in America!"
Not only would it be funny as hell, it would be highly ironic considering which company does and doesn't have "wrestling" in their initials.
Aguakate
03-21-2011, 09:56 AM
The more I read this story, and the more I think about it, the more it pisses me off.
seapig4
03-21-2011, 10:07 AM
This is fucking stupid. Also does it not piss all over all the people who worked for the company in the past?
Aguakate
03-21-2011, 10:12 AM
This is fucking stupid. Also does it not piss all over all the people who worked for the company in the past?
It kinda pisses all over the fans too, in a way.
The Jayman
03-21-2011, 10:12 AM
anything can happen in the world wrestling federation
Swiss Ultimate
03-21-2011, 10:15 AM
No link?
Aguakate
03-21-2011, 10:23 AM
anything can happen in the world wrestling federation
What did you say?
"Wrestling"?
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The Jayman
03-21-2011, 10:32 AM
damn me. damn me straight to hell
Aguakate
03-21-2011, 10:36 AM
damn me. damn me straight to hell
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dingdongyo
03-21-2011, 11:00 AM
I would love for TNA to start advertising themselves as the #1 wrestling company in America. Just to see what WWE would do :D
this would be a brilliant move.
People should start taking signs with the word "Wrestling" on it to shows. Just to see if they're blurred out.
I really hope someone in a conference call brings this up and asks why they would risk losing PR over this.
Also, the WWE name can be seen as MTV. MTV still has a bit of music on it, but for the most part, it isn't music. WWE still has "wrestling" on it, but for the most part, it isn't wrestling.
I'd imagine that's their line of thinking.
NormanSmiley
03-21-2011, 12:12 PM
Talk about blowing up in their faces when the article gets pulled!!! why not just let it run and take whatever publicity it brings and then spend some $$ and run your own planted article saying "WWE more than just wrestling nowadays, they've gone global ,make movies, run magazines, make ice cream bars etc. who remembers old wrestling ice cream bars?those were good
Kane Knight
03-21-2011, 12:27 PM
I would love for TNA to start advertising themselves as the #1 wrestling company in America. Just to see what WWE would do :D
Don't they already effectively do so? All the time?
No really, WWE is now gonna get heat like the Rock for essentially burying the industry and distancing himself from wrestling and the fans in his attempts to go legit and not be viewed as "wrasslin'." Only now it's the company distancing itself from... itself... and its fans...
Yeah, I'm sure the Cenation will be pissed.
Remember how they distanced themselves from wrestling fans when they called it "sports entertainment?"
And the wrestlers "superstars?"
The more I read this story, and the more I think about it, the more it pisses me off.
lol why?
Kane Knight
03-21-2011, 12:28 PM
Talk about blowing up in their faces when the article gets pulled!!! why not just let it run and take whatever publicity it brings and then spend some $$ and run your own planted article saying "WWE more than just wrestling nowadays, they've gone global ,make movies, run magazines, make ice cream bars etc. who remembers old wrestling ice cream bars?those were good
Pep'ridge Fahm remembers.
NormanSmiley
03-21-2011, 12:45 PM
Kane Knight for the win!
'sports entertainment matches'
Skippord
03-21-2011, 12:58 PM
those motherfuckers trying to rebrand themselves
WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE?!
The Naitch
03-21-2011, 01:38 PM
OH MY GOD
:nono:
Nothing like a good old bit of overreacting in the wrestling forum.
Gertner
03-21-2011, 02:05 PM
Workrate.
Nightwing
03-21-2011, 02:11 PM
The posters at TPSEW will not approve of this.
BizarroKing
03-21-2011, 02:18 PM
PS I guess this makes TNA the #1 Wrestling company in North America*blech*
If anyone is the #1 WRESTLING company, it has to be ROH. Might not be doing as financially we as WWE or even TNA, but surely they must be putting on clinics in the ring.
And I don't even watch that much ROH!
Lock Jaw
03-21-2011, 02:23 PM
WE WANT <s>WRESTLE</s> ENTERTAIN!
Rammsteinmad
03-21-2011, 02:24 PM
I got a really shit memory, what's the name of the upcoming PPV everyone's excited about?
dingdongyo
03-21-2011, 03:28 PM
I got a really shit memory, what's the name of the upcoming PPV everyone's excited about?
"entertainia" does sound kinda cool...
Swish
03-21-2011, 04:39 PM
So if WWE are no longer claiming to be a WRESTLING company. Doesn't that mean that tna Is the number 1 company on television? This would be an awesome way to piss WWE off.
Rammsteinmad
03-21-2011, 04:49 PM
:|
jskinnyg
03-21-2011, 04:51 PM
I would love for TNA to start advertising themselves as the #1 wrestling company in America. Just to see what WWE would do :D
Not a bad idea... heh...
addy2hotty
03-21-2011, 04:54 PM
Joey Styles was right all along.
Grablot
03-21-2011, 04:56 PM
I like how "events" are called Entertainments. This is ming boggling dumb. :rant:
Gertner
03-21-2011, 05:40 PM
It is entertainment. It's fake. Very little actual wrestling actually goes on. I don't know why people care about this.
Rammsteinmad
03-21-2011, 05:40 PM
I hate having my ming boggled.
Londoner
03-21-2011, 05:45 PM
I hate having my ming boggled.
Your ming?
Lara Emily
03-21-2011, 05:47 PM
I just think it's funny, I don't blame them, pro wrestling is seen as a joke by mainstream so anything they can do to distance themselves makes business sense. I just don't think this is gonna work. I mean putting on a wrestling show but not referring to it as wrestling is not gonna get you anywhere, wrestling by any other name will still be seen as wrestling by the mainstream. Soceity can be stupid sometimes but they aren't this stupid.
Aguakate
03-21-2011, 05:52 PM
lol why?
I don't know, I take it as if WWE somehow is embarrassed of its fans, in a way...as if being known as a wrestling company with wrestling fans is SO wrong.
Maybe that's not the way they mean it (emphasis on the word MAYBE), but it can be interpreted as such...that's how I take it, anyway.
Lock Jaw
03-21-2011, 06:20 PM
Your ming?
http://images.forbes.com/media/2007/12/11/fictional/ming.jpg
Grablot
03-21-2011, 07:16 PM
Your ming?
Ahahaha oh no someone made a typo on the internet call the white house this is news
Londoner
03-21-2011, 07:51 PM
Ahahaha oh no someone made a typo on the internet call the white house this is news
Looks like someones over-reacting!
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Rock Bottom
03-21-2011, 08:01 PM
get the W out
It is entertainment. It's fake. Very little actual wrestling actually goes on. I don't know why people care about this.
I don't think people "care" as much as they are calling bullshit on this. Look here:
“We are no longer a wrestling company but rather a global entertainment company with a movie studio, international licensing deals, publisher of three magazines, consumer good distributor and more.”
The publicist further said “No, we don’t do wrestling events. They’re entertainments. And we don’t call them wrestlers. They’re superstars and divas.”
That's some dumb shit right there. International licensing deals? To make action figures of your wrestlers and video games featuring them. Puplisher of three magazines? Three WRESTLING magazines. And so on. Even their movie studio features their wrestlers.
It just sounds so desperate to appear to be something they are quite clearly not.
Also, the WWE name can be seen as MTV. MTV still has a bit of music on it, but for the most part, it isn't music. WWE still has "wrestling" on it, but for the most part, it isn't wrestling.
I'd imagine that's their line of thinking.
TBF, over here in the UK the MTV channel has been moved from the "music" listings to the "entertainment" section on Sky/cable TV. Not sure if that was their call or not.
Are we suggesting that WWE programming should be moved off of Sky Sports and on to one of their "entertainment" channels? Would that be a big deal?
Kane Knight
03-22-2011, 07:51 AM
those motherfuckers trying to rebrand themselves
WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE?!
I NOEZ. OMG I H8Z THEM SOOO MUCH!
Speaking of hate....
It is entertainment. It's fake. Very little actual wrestling actually goes on. I don't know why people care about this.
OMG HOW DARE YOU ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM! I HATE YOU! YOU SUCK!
I don't know, I take it as if WWE somehow is embarrassed of its fans, in a way...as if being known as a wrestling company with wrestling fans is SO wrong.
Maybe that's not the way they mean it (emphasis on the word MAYBE), but it can be interpreted as such...that's how I take it, anyway.
Ah. So basically, you're pissed off because....Yo're imagining offense?
If you're a sport you fall under regulators from the goverment, if you're entertainment you can do all sorts like take drugs, murder your family, get beat up with weapons, cut yr own head open, etc.
Kane Knight
03-22-2011, 09:00 AM
Are we suggesting that WWE programming should be moved off of Sky Sports and on to one of their "entertainment" channels? Would that be a big deal?
They're not suggesting that, no. They're suggesting they're not wrestling.
Though I doubt Vince or WWE would lose sleep over being on a non-sports channel.
Rammsteinmad
03-22-2011, 09:06 AM
Your ming?
This is ming boggling dumb.
I hate having my ming boggled.
Dirk Ziggler
03-22-2011, 02:03 PM
get the W out
I got a really shit memory, what's the name of the upcoming PPV everyone's excited about?
:y:
They're not suggesting that, no. They're suggesting they're not wrestling.
Though I doubt Vince or WWE would lose sleep over being on a non-sports channel.
It was more a question of whether WE would lose any sleep over it, not so much Vince.
No doubt you'd get the standard IWC over-reaction until someone points out that it doesn't really matter.
SaskatchewanChamp
03-22-2011, 02:55 PM
Who gives a shit.
Grablot
03-22-2011, 03:51 PM
Now its no surprise that WWE mistreated Kaval: They arent interested in wrestling.
Kane Knight
03-22-2011, 05:46 PM
It was more a question of whether WE would lose any sleep over it, not so much Vince.
No doubt you'd get the standard IWC over-reaction until someone points out that it doesn't really matter.
Yeah, tell me about it. And probably still after.
Remember in the Attitude Era, when WW<s>F</s>E respected its <s>wrestlers</s> Superstars and the fans? When you would have <s>5 minute table matches</s> 20 minute epic chain wrestling clinics and shit? When <s>blood and bewbs</s> Technical ability and hard work were king?
What? This is the same shit they've been doing for almost fifteen years? PANIC!
Gertner
03-22-2011, 05:56 PM
Kane, what are you talking about. Hogan, Austin and Cena are technical wizards. I wish I could transform their workrate into butter so I could spread it on toast.
As if you care about technical ability.
Lara Emily
03-23-2011, 03:16 AM
Kane, what are you talking about. Hogan, Austin and Cena are technical wizards. I wish I could transform their workrate into butter so I could spread it on toast.
Austin was actually a great in ring worker btw
Kane Knight
03-23-2011, 08:46 AM
Kane, what are you talking about. Hogan, Austin and Cena are technical wizards. I wish I could transform their workrate into butter so I could spread it on toast.
I must admit, their movesets were all awesome.
Kane Knight
03-23-2011, 08:49 AM
Austin was actually a great in ring worker btw
Awwww...The auspie misses the point for the technical niggle.
The Naitch
03-23-2011, 02:41 PM
They were WWE for 10 years. Like someone posted earlier, I wouldn't mind it if they renamed the company WSE: World Sports Entertainment. That would be the perfect time to re-invent themselves
GET THE DUB OUT!
The Naitch
03-23-2011, 02:43 PM
World Rasslin Entertainment
Dirk Ziggler
03-23-2011, 02:47 PM
They were WWE for 10 years. Like someone posted earlier, I wouldn't mind it if they renamed the company WSE: World Sports Entertainment. That would be the perfect time to re-invent themselves
GET THE DUB OUT!
Good thing you're not running the company then. That would be the dumbest business decision ever. If a company is want to make a change in their look they change the design of their logo, or put a twist on their product. They don't change their name. Even when business's merge, they either keep the most popular name of the two, or combine the two names. They don't go and create another name for the company. Its bad for business. Its bad for sales.
Dirk Ziggler
03-23-2011, 02:49 PM
They were WWE for 10 years. Like someone posted earlier, I wouldn't mind it if they renamed the company WSE: World Sports Entertainment. That would be the perfect time to re-invent themselves
GET THE DUB OUT!
And they haven't been WWE for 10 years either. 10 years ago they were WWF. I don't know exactly when WWF went to WWE, as I'm too lazy to google it. But it wasn't in 2001.
The Naitch
03-23-2011, 03:04 PM
whoops my bad bro, in the spring of 2002, they first aired the Get The F Out promos
The Rogerer
03-23-2011, 03:24 PM
People should start taking signs with the word "Wrestling" on it to shows. Just to see if they're blurred out.
I really hope someone in a conference call brings this up and asks why they would risk losing PR over this.
Also, the WWE name can be seen as MTV. MTV still has a bit of music on it, but for the most part, it isn't music. WWE still has "wrestling" on it, but for the most part, it isn't wrestling.
I'd imagine that's their line of thinking.In the UK, MTV has recently moved it's channel out of the music section and into the entertainment section.
This is a laughable move, if they stop using the word wrestling then how do they describe what is happening in the ring?
"It's a match!"
"What sort of match?"
"A very entertaining one!"
erickman
03-23-2011, 05:31 PM
People should start taking signs with the word "Wrestling" on it to shows. Just to see if they're blurred out.
I really hope someone in a conference call brings this up and asks why they would risk losing PR over this.
Also, the WWE name can be seen as MTV. MTV still has a bit of music on it, but for the most part, it isn't music. WWE still has "wrestling" on it, but for the most part, it isn't wrestling.
I'd imagine that's their line of thinking.
the only time i see music on mtv is at like 5 in the morning, that ch should be renamed crappy realty shows. vince always hated the name wrestling even back in the 80's
seapig4
03-24-2011, 01:01 PM
I wouldn't mind if they started showing Raw and Smackdown on Sky One since I ain't got Sky Sports.
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