10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits In Wrestling-7

7. WWF Sues WCW Over Losing Hall and Nash

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The WWF didn’t take kindly to having Scott ‘Razor Ramon’ Hall and Kevin ‘Diesel’ Nash leave for WCW in May 1996. In one of the pettiest display of sour grapes that we’ve ever heard of, the company sued WCW’s owners for various breaches of copyright, claiming that Hall and Nash were appearing as versions of the same characters they’d played on WWF programming, which were created, developed and owned by WWF – although both men were performing for WCW under their own names.

Their case was given a certain legitimacy by the fact that Hall and Nash both initially appeared on WCW programming as invaders to the promotion: although they were contracted to WCW, the storyline had them presented as arriving from WWF to disrupt WCW. All parties made sure not to mention the WWF by name, but the implication was deliberate, and in turn the WCW audience was encouraged to infer from their allegedly outlaw interferences in the show that they were still working for WWF – which carried the further implication that they were playing the same characters.

This is what happens when worked shoots go bad, essentially. WWF would continue to assert in litigation throughout the entire Monday Night War, that the nucleus of the NWO, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, were in fact playing Razor Ramon and Diesel under different names. The case was settled in 2000, presumably because WWF had won the war, and there was no need to nitpick over the matter any more. We don’t even want to think about how much all of this pointless catfighting cost both companies over that four year period.