In what was referred to as a mirror image lawsuit arising from WWFs lawsuit against them over Hall and Nash, WCW filed suit against WWF in May 1998 alleging multiple instances of engaging in unfair business practices designed to confuse the consumer the wrestling fans they were competing over. If youre not sure what that actually means, well break it down for you: as part of the Monday Night War, WWF and WCW would regularly forcibly remove the urine from each other, sarcastically namechecking their competitors promotion, television show and characters and even airing skits further acting as liquid waste extraction devices, like the Billionaire Ted segments, D-Xs invasion of Nitro, the fake Diesel and Razor Ramon characters, etc etc. Basically, WCW sued WWF for taking the piss out of them on television. Not only was the WCW lawsuit equally as pointless as the WWFs own lawsuit of two years earlier, which was still ongoing, but it deliberately aped the structure and style of the previous suit. Opinions vary as to whether the WCW litigation was a legitimate legal tactic to prove to the court in the WWF case that WWF werent practicing what they preached, or just Eric Bischoffs way of going nyah nyah, I got your nose, I got your nose to Vince McMahon.
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