10 Strangest WWE Trademarks
'Lady Balls' is just the latest in a long, long line...
This past week, World Wrestling Entertainment trademarked 'lady balls', and I dare say all those about to graduate from the performance centre took quite the gulp. It remains to be seen what use Crazy Old Vince McMahon will have the phrase, but I would say it is safe to expect the worst.
'Lady balls' is just the latest in a long history of strange trademarks for this publicly traded company. It is easy to forget that there is more to World Wrestling Entertainment than what goes on between the four sides of the squared circle. WWE produces films, music, merchandise and a whole lot more. If money can be made off of it, Vince McMahon is interested.
Truth be told, a lot of the strangest trademarks that WWE has applied for over the years became less strange once we got used to the characters on our screens. For someone totally uninitiated with WWE things like 'Big Dick Johnson', 'Sucker Punch' and 'Prince of Perversion' will raise eyebrows, but to WWE fans they are normal, unfortunately.
As such, here are 10 of the strangest WWE trademarks in history. Truth be told you could flip the list around and it would still make sense, but they are all rather unusual. Do you remember any other particularly strange trademarks? Let me know in the comments below!
10. Act Pink
Professional wrestling is the most macho of all worlds. It is a fictional show centred around violence, where competitors deal with their issues by fighting it out inside a squared circle. If a character wears pink, this pretty much guarantees that they are a heel too, because you know, pink is for girls or whatever.
Of course, this goes out of the window every October, when WWE joins forces with the Susan G. Komen charity to fight breast cancer. All complaints about the Komen charity aside, this means that for one month pink is the most ubiquitous colour in the WWE Universe.
Towards the end of October in 2013 WWE filed an application to trademark 'Act Pink', for charitable purposes. What exactly does it mean to 'act pink'? Ask the majority of folk, and they'll assume you are asking them to act in an effeminate manner. I don't think this is what they are going for.