WWE Files Trademark Complaint Against AEW's FTR - Claims Ownership

PWInsider are reporting that WWE has filed an opposition claim against recent trademarks logged by AEW's FTR.

Specifically, the promotion are claiming ownership of "No Flips, Just Fists", "Say Yeah", "Top Guys". "#FTRKO" and "Shatter Machine". All of those are trademarks Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have filed to copyright themselves since leaving WWE.

Below is a snippet from WWE's claim:

“In or around April 2020, Applicants and WWE terminated the Booking Agreements (“Termination Agreements”). Consistent with the plain language of Paragraph 3 of the Booking Agreements and WWE’s ownership of SHATTER MACHINE, Applicants agreed and confirmed in the Termination Agreements that they were forever precluded from using any intellectual property not identified as WRESTLER Intellectual Property. The Termination Agreements explicitly provide that Applicants were forever precluded from using any WWE intellectual property including but not limited to “the names, likenesses, costumes, props, gimmicks, gestures, routines, themes, sayings (e.g., WWE tag team references or sayings such as the Top Guys, ‘No flips, Just fists’ or FTKRO [sic]), personalities, caricatures or finishing moves (e.g. Shatter Machine) which refer or relate to, or which are confusingly similar to those used in connection with your performances” with WWE.”

PWInsider noted that FTR had until 5 October to respond.