WWE has been notably seen filing Trademarks for quite some time now. They often file Trademark for WCW events from the past and have brought back many of them which were featured as the special editions of NXT.
WWE also filed Trademark recently as they planned to rename Walter to the name of a Nazi U-Boat commander, Gunther (Starks) who served under Adolf Hitler in World War II.
It is to be noted that World Championship Wrestling (WCW) is officially a part of the WWE library of programming. The company previously saw existence as long as the Turner networks, which now host AEW, supported them. In 2001, WWE bought WCW and it got disbanded.
WWE could bring back old shows
WWE recently trademarked two names that were formerly used by WCW for annual pay-per-view events. The names in question are Superbrawl and Uncensored. Both filings were made on January 19, 2022. The trademark documents read as follows:
“Entertainment services, namely, a show about professional wrestling; entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events rendered live and through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing wrestling news and information through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing information in the fields of sports and entertainment through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information; organizing social entertainment events for entertainment purposes for wrestling fans; providing online newsletters in the fields of sports entertainment; online journals, namely, blogs, in the field of sports entertainment.”
It has been noted how Halloween Havoc is now an annual NXT event and WWE also uses the WCW-owned WarGames name for NXT. In 2019, WWE branded a house show as Starrcade. We will see if SuperBrawl and Uncensored would be brought back or not.
