@kwetribute3838 Ай бұрын
The debut of the WWE name also gave us that moment when Tazz questioned how people couldn't distinguish between the WWF (World Wrestling Federation) and WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and said something about pandas.
@KoolKeithProductions Ай бұрын
I had actually stopped watching wrestling around this time. I no longer had cable, so l couldnt watch Raw, and SD had yet to become what Heyman would make it into later in 2002, but I remember watching the UPN 6pm news, and since SD was airing on UPN back that, they broke the news that effective immediately WWF were changing their name to WWE...because of damn pandas. I couldn't believe what l was seeing lol But l did watch the next SD ep out of curiosity, and continued watching for a while longer. But by 2005, I was gone again lol
@edwardsrichard Ай бұрын
Hulk Hogan was the last WWF Champion and the first WWE Champion. 😮
@Demonslayer0791 Ай бұрын
I'll never forget this era, as a child it was my first chance to watch raw weekly. It was the first wrestling I was getting outside of renting ppv vhs from our rental place in town. It was all I ate and breathed. Thank you Simon. Always love you all at Whatculture. Take care.
@j.b.gruberiiiesq6582 Ай бұрын
I remember CONSTANTLY correcting my family around that time when they'd ask me about that "WWF stuff" They did not care lol
@jaredsaleski7739 Ай бұрын
I went to the last wwf pay per view. Wwf backlash in Kansas City in 2002. My first and last wwf ppv. I was 16
@StewartLucrative Ай бұрын
Technically insurrextion 2002 was the last wwf ppv, but that was a UK exclusive show. I also think the plane ride back was the infamous plane ride from hell.
@MitchQuadrupleTree Ай бұрын
For some reason, I laughed way too hard at "He lost his big."
@mbk907 Ай бұрын
Same lol
@tomseville2345 Ай бұрын
The May 5 Heat was taped before the April 29, 2002 Raw, and they either didn't have to change it, or got it through because of the low status of the show. It was not intended as any sort of send-off, unless they'd completely re-edited a show that few watched at that time...
@jjpe306 Ай бұрын
Don't get why they didn't go back to WWWF.
@NcWcN1 Ай бұрын
RIGHT?! Although adding an additional W to the scratch logo would have been a chore.
@nickgangone9541 Ай бұрын
It's about subtraction, not addition
@mark_jg Ай бұрын
Because it sounds and looks god-awful. Would be terrible branding for a company in the 21st century.
@tomseville2345 Ай бұрын
@@mark_jg Worldwide is one word; that's why Vince Jr dropped it to BEGIN with...
@arleneconverse1238 Ай бұрын
Next year, WWE will exist just as long as WWF
@Deathstroke4200 Ай бұрын
I can remember catching the show about 30min in and thought they were messing up on purpose 😂
@TheCorpsehatch Ай бұрын
Took me quite a while to get used to WWE having watched WWF since the mid 80s.
@nichhodge8503 Ай бұрын
I was coming up 21yrs old when this happened and I feel old!
@jasonlee3759 Ай бұрын
I remember….still have problem with saying ‘PLE’
@fc775 Ай бұрын
It's ppv forever!
@BOABModels Ай бұрын
I always wondered why they didnt put another horizontal line on the scratch logo to make it look like WWE rather than removing the F. Its always meant the logo just looks like WW.
@southbeachtalent Ай бұрын
Dude I've always wondered that too. Once the "get the f out" campaign was over you've just got WW. Walt Whitman. Willy Wonka..... Walter White?
@arleneconverse1238 Ай бұрын
Weight Watchers
@NcWcN1 Ай бұрын
Even the gaming magazines (can't exactly recall if it was GameNOW, EGM or GamePro; I did not buy that specific issue) were previewing the upcoming releases as _World Wrestling Crush Hour_ , _World Wrestling RAW 2_
@deanobeany Ай бұрын
100%. That's driven me mad for 25 years. Turn the red line at the bottom white, turn the F into an E.
@DXKramer Ай бұрын
I remember the WWE Championship still had the WWF logo on it for some time after the name change, and the European Championship never changed since it was retired in July
@richard1701able Ай бұрын
go back, watch the episode, take a shot every time someone doesn't say the new name. Mr White is hysterical!!!
@BrainDamage922 Ай бұрын
I still call it WWF.
@arleneconverse1238 Ай бұрын
Older people do
@BrainDamage922 Ай бұрын
@@arleneconverse1238 I'm not older, it just sounds better.
@Imru_gamer Ай бұрын
Simon deserves a golden up!! 🌟💛
@tomseville2345 Ай бұрын
The company's official name (off TV) was World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. (WWFE) anyway. The only thing they dropped was the word "Federation"...
@SSJ491 Ай бұрын
Yup, I definitely remember that from my childhood in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
@mgibuk Ай бұрын
Eric Bischoff coming after What Culture Wresting
@Panwere36 Ай бұрын
2002-2012 really was the best. It was starting around the middle of 2013 0r'14 when things started to go off the rails in the other direction. The PG era allowed Impact to survive (And again thrive), allowed international promotions to become mainstream here in the States, and let both to a revival of the NWA AND the rise of AEW.
@user-ed4lu2hr7e Ай бұрын
the logo got changed to wwe and everything changed
@michaelwebb9972 Ай бұрын
FOR ME!!!!!! Mr. Miller, ONLY talking about ME. WWF became WWE July 4th when Edge and Hogan took the tag straps from Chuck and Billy on Smackdown.
@Dakiraun Ай бұрын
That was definitely a weird transition, yeah. I'd been watching wrestling since they _started_ calling themselves WWF, so... it was just so strange that suddenly they weren't. Also, now I feel all the older to realize they've been WWE longer than WWF.
@LORDSTRYKER92 Ай бұрын
They were only barred from using WWF in the UK so technically they could have kept the WWF name in the stated but decided to go all in with the name change
@palaceofwisdomprod Ай бұрын
I just remember going on the school computers to check the latest results and the domain kept routing from wwf to wwe and I thought something was broken
@user-wy7pc5mu2q Ай бұрын
World Wrestling Federation Entertainment was the official name of the company
@fc775 Ай бұрын
When the F got out when the fun left
@mercuryman1250 Ай бұрын
This was the 2nd worst thing that happened after being sick in the hospital having surgery and missing my high school graduation.
@The-Deadite Ай бұрын
Bro it was just a slight name change, far worse things happened in WWE.
@mercuryman1250 Ай бұрын
@@The-Deadite WWF IS better than wwe. I know it I've been watching wrestling for almost 40 years
@nalday2534 Ай бұрын
Most of the ppvs from you time suck be serious here @@mercuryman1250
@rn6312 Ай бұрын
@@mercuryman1250 I have been watching wrestling for 40 years mylself and to be honest... I stopped giving a shit 5 minutes after they changed the name because there are a lot more important things to worry about in life... ya weirdo
@mercuryman1250 Ай бұрын
@@rn6312 @rn6312 only weirdo is you. I wasnt even talking to you. For you to try to make a example out of me shows you have no life and you must be Down low. If you want attention go seek help idiot.
@Hoovie9596 Ай бұрын
I’ve been watching wrestling for over 40 years. I still call it WWF to this day.
@Imru_gamer Ай бұрын
Awesome 💜💜💜
@ynotefil 25 күн бұрын
The 1st Person I Remember Using The Term WWE Was The Nature Boy Ric Flair 🗣️ Wooooopooooooo!!!!!!!!
@kambesyes Ай бұрын
The comments about the pandas will have me laughing the rest of the day. Thanks Simon. 😂
@Imru_gamer Ай бұрын
Stratus-faction!! Was that the name of the group. That is bloody genius. 💜💜
@Rockhead84 Ай бұрын
"He lost his "Big""! 😅😅😅
@chrisxavier3147 Ай бұрын
Super sad day tbh
@AliFrankTheTank Ай бұрын
“WCW” still best name lol but WWF/E really interchangeable to me
@razorramon7573 Ай бұрын
The WWF: Back when people actually watched wrestling. The WWE: UFC thanks you for the extra viewers! 😁
@LwandaMandla-eo3io Ай бұрын
I wasn't even alive yet when WWE got the F out🤣
@andrewf3505 Ай бұрын
I still don’t understand why they didn’t just use WCW… they owned the rights to the name! Or World Championship Wrestling Federation
@tomseville2345 Ай бұрын
Are you serious? You think Vince would have changed his company's name to WCW? We saw in 2001 what he thought of it as a TV commodity...
@tommydeamon7657 Ай бұрын
I was in my mid 20,s when they droped the F and added the E ide been watching since i was 4 or 5 and i still have to remind my self its w w e and not w w f
@Imac7065 Ай бұрын
I was literally shocked it wasn't renamed WWWF (his father's company) or ..... WCW. WCW was a brand name and Vince could put the final nail in Ted Turner's wrestling grave with that move.... WWE took at least 10 years to accept IMO
@joenintendo Ай бұрын
The Pandas are black and white, the NWO are black and white. Coincidence? Absolutely 😂
@Dr_1212 Ай бұрын
Simon gets an up 👍 Vince gets a brown down 👎
@aewmark9618 Ай бұрын
I thought vince liked brown downs? 🤢
@jonathanbillker7642 Ай бұрын
I never understood why they didn't just to back to the WWWF. It made far more sense and they already owned the right to it. World Wrestling Entertainment still doesn't make sense to me. Especially when referred to as "the WWE"
@rockcatinc.4814 Ай бұрын
I thought it was cool. I felt like it wrapped wwf, WCW and ECW all in one new bow. I was cool with it.
@Glitch94 Ай бұрын
They have to find a way to sell WWF championship belts that’s all I want. WWE well now TKO still owns the copyright to the World Wrestling Federation. They just gotta find the loophole
@nichhodge8503 Ай бұрын
The WSE - World Sports Entertainment just doesn’t sound right but the initials sound ok. World Sports Entertainment Federation sounds better but the WSEF initials are a mouthful! If you had the WSE initials with the World Sports Entertainment Federation that would be best
@brianmeek9597 Ай бұрын
Basically the attitude era was the last of WWF brand?
@miguelnewmexico8641 Ай бұрын
if memory serves, Ruthless Aggression started right before the change. Attitude was the last complete era i guess.
@polarfamily6222 Ай бұрын
WWE(F) ended when AEW began 😂👍
@Extinguisher10 Ай бұрын
WWE still sounds weird. WWF forever!
@quiznights Ай бұрын
The person who suffered most from all of this was The Medium Bossman.
@tomseville2345 Ай бұрын
I think that was his last televised WWF (*or WWE*) match...
@rtsharlotte Ай бұрын
Lol. I still call it WWF
@waqaskaash7319 Ай бұрын
WWF was better WWE down 👎
@spockb1186 Ай бұрын
Really sucks how they changed from WWF to WWE. Truthfully, The Entertainment has already ruined the sport of professional wrestling. And right now, WWE is getting ignominious than ever with every rule been broken let alone the fans getting pissed off all the time.
@mrbransformer4184 Ай бұрын
Simon Miller vs Joe Hendry!
@JayStephens8 Ай бұрын
Can’t believe people stopped watching just cus WWF went away
@fc775 Ай бұрын
You have to understand the quality of the product went down and big time megastars left too ( rock & Austin)
@JayStephens8 Ай бұрын
@@fc775 the product didn’t start to suck until the late 2000’s early 2010’s and there where plenty of top stars besides rock and Austin
@fc775 Ай бұрын
@@JayStephens8 you were around or too young to remember. And who are these so called big stars
@JayStephens8 Ай бұрын
@@fc775 triple h, Randy Orton, Batista, John Cena, Rey mysterio, Eddie Guerrero just naming a few
@dixienormus6941 Ай бұрын
Why does this man need every sentence like that? It’s so creepy
@MrSHADOWANGEL999 Ай бұрын
When somehow the world wildlife fund managed to beat vince
@tomseville2345 Ай бұрын
Everyone in the "real world" thinks the same shit about wrestling (and it's fans); no wrestling company is going to beat a charity organisation in a UK court...
@dixienormus6941 Ай бұрын
Stop waving your tiny little TRex arms around
@booburner2088 Ай бұрын
I remember jazz defended her title and I heard Lilian said WWe. I thought I heard it wrong and for years I hated the name WWE.
@ayejayreviews8760 Ай бұрын
In an alternate universe if Vince could have had his way it could have been WSE world sports entertainment
@bonafide9781 Ай бұрын
I’m genuinely shocked that Vince didn’t have a gimmick or stable of heel environmentalists who claimed that they owned the trademark of RAW to take a shot at the World Wildlife Fund. That would have been really stupid and petty, so it would be in character.
@frostedbutts4340 Ай бұрын
I dunno, that sounds pretty funny. And they all wrestle as different endangered animals
@geeshep4836 Ай бұрын
I Remember Watching The Opening Of Monday Night Raw And The Part Where The Shrub And It Said WWF On It Then When She Cut The F Off It And I Was I Like What The F--ck Is Going On? Now That Vince's Son In Law Is In Charge Trips Could Change The Name Back To WWF. P.S. It's WWF To Me Dammit.
@aldouscoroza Ай бұрын
I started Watching WWE in 2003, I was 6, so I basically grew up with the Name WWE. So thats what Im used to, and I only learned of the Old WWF Name in 2005 I was 8, and for me it feels weird Hearing the name WWF or World Wrestling Federation, but I do love watching 2000s, 90s and 80s WWE
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