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00:00A lawsuit filed against Cody Rhodes, WWE have a new TV show, the first trailer for the Mr

00:06McMahon Netflix docu-series and more.

00:10I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:18Get exclusive videos over on our Patreon.

00:20The wrestling calendar has many different seasons.

00:23There's the Road to WrestleMania, there's the All In All Out Shake It All About Fortnite,

00:28and next week we'll be getting WWE's season premiere of their shows that have never once

00:32stopped broadcasting.

00:34But this week, this week, has a different theme.

00:38Everyone's suing everyone else week!

00:40Following former AEW commentator Kevin Kelly and the Tate Twins, who play Dalton Castle's

00:45The Boys, filing a lawsuit against AEW alleging defamation and trying to get its talent classified

00:50as employees rather than independent contractors, that's when you know you've made it Tony

00:55Khan when you wrestlers try to unionise, Cody Rhodes, WWE and their merchandising

01:00partner Fanatics have been hit with a lawsuit over their use of the American Nightmare phrase.

01:06Now, this sort of stuff happens all the time, and typically goes nowhere.

01:10WWE are too big of a machine to wage a legal battle against, and sometimes the parties

01:15filing the claims are just chancers who don't actually have a case.

01:20But this one is different, as it's by the Boston punk band American Nightmare, who had

01:26already agreed how WWE and Cody would use the American Nightmare phrase, which they

01:30claim WWE has now gone back on.

01:34According to Post Wrestling, this isn't just an allegation of trademark infringement,

01:38i.e. using the American Nightmare phrase, it's breach of contract and intentional

01:43interference with contractual relations.

01:46The band registered the trademark back in 2016 for music, clothing and apparel and entertainment

01:52services, mainly live music performances.

01:55Cody filed for the trademark in 2019 for wrestling related activities.

02:00This was a period of time where Cody seemingly couldn't use any of his own names, as WWE

02:05also reportedly prevented him from having the surname Rhodes.

02:08Cody's trademark filing started a back and forth between him and the band, which was

02:13settled in March 2021, while Cody was still under contract with AEW, where they agreed

02:18Cody would make a one-off payment of $30,000 and he could use American Nightmare on his

02:23merchandise under the condition that such items prominently used Rhodes' name, likeness

02:30or wrestling related imagery in a size at least 75% larger than the American Nightmare

02:36text.

02:37This was so it was clear that the American Nightmare merchandise was for Cody Rhodes

02:40the wrestler, not American Nightmare the band.

02:44But now American Nightmare claim WWE is selling merchandise through fanatics that doesn't

02:49meet the 75% size Cody likeness they agreed upon, and that fans have turned up to American

02:54Nightmare gigs wearing Cody American Nightmare shirts, showing there is confusion between

02:59the two.

03:00Confusion that's backed up further by fans often tagging American Nightmare the band

03:05on social media posts instead of American Nightmare the Cody.

03:09Apparently the band's legal representation first contacted Rhodes' lawyer in 2022 about

03:13the infringing crown design, but didn't get a reply.

03:17They reached out again in April and May this year, sending cease and desist letters.

03:21WWE replied to them at the end of May, stating fanatics had passed this over to them.

03:26The band are seeking damages of at least $150,000, as well as treble damages of up to $300,000

03:34related to federal trademark infringement.

03:37But as a famed Eastern Mystic once said, karma is a bitch.

03:41Because WWE have been serving independent wrestlers for years with cease and desist

03:46letters on far weaker cases, and also one with Bryan Danielson just last month.

03:51AEW's Danielson had previously said he would avoid doing the Yes chant because when he

03:56was leaving WWE, Kevin Dunn politely asked him to respect the company's intellectual

04:01property, even the ones that might not be legally enforceable.

04:06But back on the 29th July, Danielson decided to test that, filing to trademark the Yes

04:10chant he first got over in WWE for wrestling entertainment purposes.

04:15In an interview with Luke James Chats conducted in August, Danielson revealed he received

04:19an email shortly after from WWE.

04:22I applied for it, but then I got, it wasn't necessarily a cease and desist, I got some

04:27sort of legal letter from WWE.

04:29It's really weird because my manager just texted me and said, hey this thing is available,

04:33do you want to get it?

04:34And I was like, how much does it cost?

04:36And it wasn't that much.

04:37And I was like, ok sure.

04:39And then shortly after that, I got an email from WWE saying like, oh this is infringing

04:43on this or that or whatever.

04:45And I'm like, dude, I'm not trying to sell anybody anything.

04:49But you can't cover lawsuits and wrestling without talking about Vince McMahon.

04:55Janelle Grant accused McMahon of sexual assault and trafficking back in January, leading to

04:59McMahon resigning from WWE.

05:01The two sides have been engaged in legal back and forth ever since, but Grant's lawsuit

05:06had to be put on pause because the US government is conducting their own investigation into

05:11McMahon.

05:12With that part paused, Grant's team filed a petition in July seeking medical records

05:17from Dr Karlan Kolka and Peak Wellness, where she alleges Vince sent her for treatments

05:22that weren't disclosed to her.

05:24In response, Kolka filed a complaint against Grant, accusing her of a smear campaign against

05:29him and that he had suffered damages as a result.

05:32Post Wrestling has now reported, though, that Kolka has withdrawn the complaint.

05:36Grant's attorney claimed it was only ever a baseless motion, filed simply as yet another

05:40frivolous attempt to intimidate Ms Grant.

05:43Yeah, we're probably going to need a season two on that McMahon documentary series.

05:48But before then, we actually need a season one.

05:50Which has been four years and two separate resignations in the making.

05:53And now Netflix have released its first official trailer.

05:56It begins with a sit-down interview clip of Vince, where he talks about others portraying

06:00him as a bad guy, but nobody really knows him.

06:03It continues with talking heads from the biggest names ever in WWE, like Rock the Dwayne Johnson,

06:08Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin and… is that just a blank shot?

06:18And also Bruce Prichard and Eric Bischoff.

06:20That's going to be objective.

06:22It then mostly goes chronologically through his wrestling career.

06:25Not his abusive childhood under his stepfather, nor his failed non-wrestling projects before

06:30he took over the WWF.

06:31There's a link to my Fall of the McMahons video in the video description below that

06:34tells that whole story.

06:36And then also notes his scandals, the steroid trial, Chris Benoit's murder-suicide and

06:41then, yes, the recent lawsuits and allegations of sexual assault.

06:46The docu-series is said to be six one-hour episodes long.

06:49If told chronologically, his scandals over the last two years will probably be covered

06:54in the final show.

06:55While the project initially started out as a collaboration between Netflix and WWE, with

07:00WWE announcing it in their Q3 2020 earnings call, and Vince conducting numerous interviews

07:05and claiming he wanted a warts and all portrayal, this stopped when the Washington Post first

07:10broke their story in 2022, and Vince reportedly didn't provide any further interviews.

07:15PWInsider is also reporting that Vince didn't have any say over the final edit of the show.

07:21Bret Hart is also shown as a talking head in the docu-series, where the producers presumably

07:25edited around him, mostly shitting on Bill Goldberg.

07:28But we won't have to wait until the show's 25th September premiere date to see him again,

07:33because Bret has just been announced for Monday's episode of Raw in Calgary.

07:38Jackie Redmond announced the news, and Triple H said you definitely won't want to miss

07:42this for Raw's season premiere.

07:44Hart hasn't been seen on WWE's screens since sitting at ringside for 2022's Clash

07:49at the Castle show.

07:50Seeing that he's CM Punk's favourite wrestler, expect Drew McIntyre to kill him.

07:54Monday Night Raw will be getting another season premiere just under four months later, as

07:58the show moves from the USA Network to Netflix on January 6th.

08:02Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman made their first public appearance together since WrestleMania

08:0640 on Thursday to talk about the move, and WWE's larger business success at Bloomberg's

08:13Power Players Summit.

08:14Sounds like a tag team name.

08:16Heyman spoke about how WWE has doubled its profits since 2019 thanks to Nick Khan, Paul

08:21Levesque, Roman Reigns, who is the biggest box office draw in sports entertainment history,

08:25and the $5 billion deal with Netflix.

08:27It's been speculated that WWE could get edgier with the move, as they will no longer

08:32be under broadcast TV's censorship restrictions.

08:35Not that The Rock ever cared, but Roman said at the Summit he thinks WWE needs to stick

08:39to their values and morals they have in place already, and the culture they have now, to

08:44appeal to the widest audience.

08:46Heyman, the creator of Extreme Championship Wrestling, was more flexible, saying it will

08:50all depend on what the storylines call for.

08:53But it might just come down to analytical driven data.

08:56Reigns discussed about how much more viewership data they'll have access to by being on

09:00Netflix.

09:01They can constantly use that to decide what's working and what isn't.

09:05Will WWE still have a foot, and kind of one arm, in traditional broadcast TV, with SmackDown

09:10moving to the USA Network and NXT premiering on the CW next month?

09:14And now WrestleVotes is reporting another new show.

09:17WWE is set to announce a live primetime special on NBC in the next few days.

09:23While the location remains unknown, sources say tickets are set to go on sale next Friday.

09:27We've heard some internal speculation about a Saturday night in December.

09:31This will be WWE's first primetime NBC special since the 2nd August 2008.

09:38Unfortunately for AEW, despite a very good all-out go-home show with Hangman Page setting

09:43fire to Swerve Strickland's childhood home, their traditional TV figures are struggling,

09:49with Wednesday's show drawing 660,000 viewers and a .19 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

09:56This is down from the last few weeks near 700,000 and .23 figures, and is concerning

10:01due to the lack of competition now the Olympics is over.

10:04Raw was also down this week, drawing its lowest viewership since January, but that is more

10:08explainable as it was on Labour Day.

10:11Tony Khan remains optimistic, though, as he's said in the all-out media call that AEW fans

10:16spend the most money per month on streaming video compared to fans of any other sporting

10:20league in the world.

10:22A good sign for any current rights negotiations who might want streaming content, but Warner

10:27Brothers Max Discovery Cough.

10:31And that AEW and WBD have lots of details to work out, but there is a lot of excitement

10:36on each side.

10:37And that, if they can pull everything off, he believes AEW could become the second most

10:43profitable wrestling company in the history of the wrestling business.

10:48Now go watch mine and Luke's AEW All Out predictions ahead of tomorrow's show.

10:52Thanks for watching.

10:53I'll see you next time.

10:54Bye.

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