WWE News: Jeff Hardy's Return, Torrie Update, DiBiase Book, Backlash DVD, More
Posted by Ashish on 05.10.2008
Lots of Saturday WWE news!
- The WWE Backlash DVD is due out on 5/27.
- WWE has forced MSN and other entities to delete groups for "e-feds" that involve the use of WWE copyrighted characters.
- Torrie Wilson's official fansite reports that Torrie actually asked for her WWE release. Wilson was released from the company yesterday. Wilson has opened a clothing line and store called Jaded in Texas. Doctors have told her to not wrestle anymore due to back issues, which is what led to the end of her WWE run.
- Jeff Hardy's 60 day Wellness suspension is set to end in the next few days so he could be returning to TV soon.
- The presale code for the WWE RAW house show in Las Cruces, NM is CENA.
- WWE's Ted DiBiase autobiography is due out on 6/10.
- WWE has announced that RAW will be held at the hompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee on August 4th, 2008. The event will be the first televised WWE event in Knoxville since 2003.
I'm not sure WWE has any legal basis for shutting down e-feds if those e-feds do not in any way generate profit. MSN (or any other site) will listen just to avoid any sort of problem, but I'm pretty sure if somebody wanted to fight it they would win.
Posted By: JD Koziarski (Registered) on May 10, 2008 at 01:15 AM
e-feds are still around lol
Posted By: Guest#8178 (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 01:17 AM
how can they win they own the names the wwe dose
Posted By: Guest#5516 (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 01:20 AM
A TV taping in Knoxville? Hell yeah. Too bad I gave up free tickets to the next two Knoxville shows for free tickets to next year's Wrestlemania, though... Actually, I'm okay with that.
Posted By: Milky (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 01:46 AM
I really don't get the E-Fed thing. What's next shutting down fantasy football sites? Bans on fan fiction? What about betting on sports events?
Posted By: Fenris (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 03:52 AM
The wwe has copyright over their characters, which means nobody else has the right to use them in any type of public forum/media.
You can't use the Undertaker name in wrestling (god knows the gimmick has been ripped many, many times in the indies), but the name is "sacred" (pardon the pun).I think this all has something to do with the new wwe.com under Joey Styles, if you search msn for a wwe character, and the traffic leads to some e-fed, that's an impact on wwe.com's ad-revenue.
Posted By: casual_monday_mayhem (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 04:54 AM
If you're using a WWE wrestler's name for an e-Fed, you need to stop e-Fedding and get a better imagination.
Posted By: Vincent Chiucchi (Registered) on May 10, 2008 at 08:20 AM
Torrie did the right thing. I am proud of you Torrie.
Posted By: WWE Fan (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 09:35 AM
I think casual_monday_mayhem is probably right. I've seen wrestling torrent sites get attacked by WWE lawyers and their objection was not to people exchanging rips of their TV shows and PPVs, but rather the fact the site administrator used copyrighted images in their banners.
Posted By: Kiltman67 (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 09:48 AM
It's a sketchy area. I'm fairly certain if you could prove you weren't making money off of it, then you would be okay. But that would mean a website you were paying out your own pocket with no adds or donation links or anything.
But, hey, maybe they wanna be like MetallicA and sue the fans, next.
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Hopefuly DiBiase's autobiography will be better than his last one; Everyman has a Price. Don't get me wrong, it was a horrible read, just not very good. Mainly do to the fact that it felt life it was half written by DiBiase and half written by a ghost writer. The portion that DiBiase wrote was pretty good, but the portion written by the ghost writer was horribe. That portion was written entirely in the "character" of the Million Dollar Man.
Posted By: Wojcik (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Hardy will return.... to be Snitskys bitch. Enjoy your fail Jeff Hardy
Posted By: natedoggcata (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Enough make my company look like a zoo. By the way, I'm very pleasure so I'm congratulation of some of you that enjoy my site. Keep your support, it only E but Feds was add...
Posted By: E-Feds President (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM
I want to have sex with Torrie Wilson...RIGHT NOW!
Posted By: Sex Panther (Guest) on May 10, 2008 at 02:04 PM
That's right, you block those e-feds because god only knows how many multiple millions of dollars they are stealing from actually booking the characters better than you, for free, as a hobby. Instead of shutting them down they should hire the bookers, can't be much worse than what's on TV today.
Posted By: Black Scorpion (Guest) on May 11, 2008 at 06:59 PM
