10 Times Controversy Inspired WWE Changes

3. World Wildlife Fund Sues Vince McMahon Into Getting The 'F' Out

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Apart from symbolising the start of a new era in Vince McMahon's company, the changing of WWF to WWE represented an extremely rare defeat for the emperor of the biggest wrestling promotion in town.

The British organisation, World Wide Fund for Nature, which deals with conservation and wildlife preservation, was founded in 1961. This was 19 years before McMahon founded the acronym of WWF for his own Titan Sports company and that's where the problems started.

Both companies used the WWF initials inside U.S. borders and in 1994 McMahon's company even legally agreed to stop using the WWF term in relation to wrestling, cutting down on their use of the spoken letters on live broadcasts.

Yet in 2000, WWFN would respond with legal action after they felt the terms of their agreement had been violated. After a court battle, the charity got an injunction approved and McMahon would be forced to get rid of the WWF initials - giving birth to the WWE we know today.

Insurrextion in 2002 - the UK situated pay-per-view - would be the last WWE televised event to showcase the WWF logo.

We now live in a time during which a whole generation has grown up without ever associating what they are watching with the former initials, so it worked out in the long run and WWFN ceased to have their image tarnished by any association with McMahon's wrestling company.

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