WWE Bringing Back Clash Of The Champions?

Updates on various trademarks.

by John Bills
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With Paul Ellering returning to the company earlier this month, World Wrestling Entertainment subsequently applied for a new trademark for 'Legion of Doom'.

It would seem now that this has been dropped, after what I can only assume were company-wide nightmares involving Heidenreich and Rocco the Dummy.

That isn't the end of the trademark news however, as the company has applied for a new one that is bound to cause a lot of excitement and intrigue. WWE has applied to trademark 'Clash of the Champions', for use with a new TV show, toys, gaming and various other bits of merchandise.

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Does this mean the popular WCW specials could be making a return?

Well, not exactly. All it really means is that WWE has applied for the trademark, but speculation is obviously going to point towards a possible return for the show. Clash of the Champions was to WCW what Saturday Night's Main Event was to the WWF, a pay-per-view calibre TV special event. The first was held in 1988, and featured Sting and Ric Flair going to a 45-minute time limit draw in the main event.

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The last Clash (to date) happened in 1997 and featured Alex Wright beating Ultimo Dragon. Go figure.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.