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Eric Bischoff Breaks Down GFW, WWE & Matt Hardy’s Respective Cases For Their ‘Broken Hardys’ Trademarks

The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Thursday night. A brand new episode will be released at the regularly scheduled BoW time of this Wednesday around 6 pm CST.

You can find a portion of Eric’s comments from the latest episode transcribed below.

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On the trademark attorneys that have recently been assigned to GFW and WWE in their respective Hardy cases:

EB: You’ve got Matt Hardy, “Broken” Matt Hardy, that’s Matt’s name. Good luck winning that one. That’s the first red flag if I was consulting with GFW. You are fighting such an uphill fight because you are trying to trademark someone’s real name. If Matt did file that application before GFW did there’s another red flag because who gets there first does matter. GFW may have an argument but not only are they working uphill they’re fighting against Matt Hardy AND WWE because the WWE use of The Hardy Boyz is a trademark that they used for many, many years. Jeff and Matt Hardy were on WWE TV for a long time before Ed Nordholm even knew what professional wrestling was or even paid any attention to it. WWE is in a phenomenal position to oppose GFW. Not only is Matt in a good position WWE is in a phenomenal position and, trust me, they will oppose it. Good luck fighting that.

Eric has officially launched his IRW Network premium channel for only $3.99/month!

Over the next few weeks more premium channels will be rolled out on IRW. If you’d like subscribe to Eric’s IRW channel and get access to the BoW Overrun as well as more exclusive Bischoff content click HERE.

This week’s BoW Overrun features Eric and I taking an over hour long retrospective look at the 1996 WCW Road Wild PPV.

Eric Bischoff On Latest Brock To UFC Report, Brock’s Drawing Power, UFC’s Issue Creating New Stars, More

On this week’s Bischoff on Wrestling Eric and Nick start off by discussing the new movie Detroit and Eric’s memories of growing up in the Detroit during the 1967 riots.

They then chat a few of the pro wrestling news headlines from the past week.

Including:

  • The WWE Network expanding into China
  • Disney making a big investment into the development company for the WWE Network, BAMTech
  • Jon Jones teasing that he may be at SummerSlam
  • What affect some of UFC’s latest moves have on their overall success
  • WWE & GFW getting assigned trademark attorneys in their respective cases with Matt Hardy
  • WWE closely protecting the outcome of the RAW SummerSlam Fatal 4-Way main event

This week’s episode wraps up with Nick asking Eric a variety of questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag. Some of the topics discussed include:

  • How Eric would book a Chris Jericho return
  • Taking spears from Goldberg vs Edge
  • What tea brand Eric is going crazy for
  • Eric’s memories of being in the ring with Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman at the initial WWE Draft
  • What it was like for Eric to kiss Miss Elizabeth in front of Macho Man
  • TNA’s strategy when they went head to head with WWE on Monday nights

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