reby just SNAPPED on TNA... fukk the owl

mrken12

Veteran
Supporter
Joined
Apr 16, 2013
Messages
80,804
Reputation
20,880
Daps
300,345
Reppin
Maryland
Impact Wrestling's Ed Nordholm issues a log of communications with Matt Hardy - Pro Wrestling Dot Net

Impact Wrestling’s Ed Nordholm issued the following statement to Prowrestling.net on Tuesday to detail his log of communications with Matt Hardy.

Good afternoon,

In response to on-going speculation concerning our position with respect to the “Broken Brilliance” creative, I am providing this detailed log of our communications on the subject and the contractual structure of our relationship with Matt Hardy with respect to intellectual property matters (which is standard to our roster and in the industry).

There has never been any argument from Impact Wrestling that the Hardy’s were key contributors to the development of the characters and story line, or that Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy executed on their roles in spectacular fashion. But the position taken by the Hardys is a massive disservice to the contributions of the rest of the creative team at Impact Wrestling, including Jeremy Borash, Dave Lagano, Matt Conway and Billy Corgan, and is totally at odds with the terms of their contracts.

The Hardys would have you believe that Anthem is somehow avoiding their lawyers to address this. This is the log of our communications with the Hardys and/or their lawyers. It is clear that we have not been avoiding them.

March 10 – EBN speaks with executives at ROH about “Broken Brilliance” being used in ROH shows. I indicated willingness to provide an arrangement that would allow the creative to be used in ROH shows and encouraged ROH to have Matt speak with me if he wanted to pursue that discussion
March 11 – EBN spoke at length with Matt by telephone about the structure of an amicable arrangement for use of the Broken Brilliance creative
March 14 – Matt sent text message to Ed Nordholm at 4:05pm:
“Tried giving you a call, it rang & went busy. I’m open to working things out amicably as we spoke about. The lawyer who represent me is interested in seeing your offer. My lawyer’s email is {redacted} which you could send the offer to for review. Thanks.”

And I responded by text at 6:41 pm

“Thank you Matt. I was supposed to be [flying] into NYC today and am a little twisted. I will pull something together with [our] lawyers and try to get it over to your lawyer tomorrow or Thursday at latest“

March 16 – At 8:25 pm I sent an update text to Matt:

“Hi Matt. My lawyer got me a draft too late to get reviewed for today. I will look at it in the morning. Sorry for the delay”

And he responded at 9:16 pm

“Ok, he’s ready for it. Thanks for the update.”

March 17 – counsel for Anthem Wrestling delivered draft proposal to counsel for Matt Hardy
March 24 – counsel for Anthem Wresting followed up with Matt Hardy counsel requesting comments on the proposal
March 27 – counsel for Matt Hardy responds that they have been away and have not reviewed the proposal but will be back “in the next few days”

After which no further communication until
April 18 – counsel for Matt Hardy leaves a voice mail message for counsel for Anthem Wrestling asking to arrange a meeting
April 20 – EBN contacts WWE by email to determine veracity of internet rumours concerning WWE interest in Broken Brilliance
April 21 — WWE respond by email that there “is no interest on our end” {redacted email exchange attached}
April 21 – counsel for Matt Hardy sends a follow up message requesting a meeting
April 27 – lawyers speak to arrange a meeting
May 16 – lawyers meet but no agreement reached

Finally, I am attaching a copy of the relevant provisions of Matt’s contract with Impact. The clause is virtually identical to the corresponding provisions of every wrestler under contract with Impact.

The facts are that we tried to accommodate the Hardys for their Ring of Honour engagements, and have tried to elicit an indication from WWE whether they have an interest in using the Broken Brilliance creative in WWE. We are not hoarding it from WWE; WWE is not interested in it.
We fully respect the decision of Matt and Jeff to return to WWE and appreciate all of their contributions to Impact Wrestling. We wish them every success.

Our focus is on the future and we will not have any further public comment on this matter.

Regards,

Ed Nordholm
President
Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions LLC
 

3Rivers

thaKEAF aint never lied
Staff member
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
34,430
Reputation
72,869
Daps
230,061
Reppin
Steel City
Matt Hardy's "Broken" Trademark Reportedly Refused, Jinder Mahal Celebration Does Big YouTube Numbers, Show Host Praises Cena

As noted, Matt Hardy previously applied to trademark the ‘Broken Matt Hardy’ name, and PWInsider.com is reporting the application was refused by the U.S. Patent & Trademark office. Hardy has six months to respond before the application is abandoned. Below is an excerpt of the reason for refusal:

“Registration is refused because the applied-for mark, as used on the specimen of record, identifies only the name of a particular character/personal name; it does not function as a service mark to identify and distinguish applicant’s services from those of others and to indicate the source of applicant’s services.”
 

DoubleJ13

Smooth sailing from here on out...
Joined
May 14, 2012
Messages
17,806
Reputation
1,342
Daps
45,720
Reppin
Thunder/TSC
I still don't know why TNA even wants the trouble of a possible legal battle over this shyt :mindblown:

You going to waste money in court over something that is worthless to you as a company because it revolves around a guy (& his family) who isn't there anymore. While their busy throwing that money away for something that they can't even use if they won in court, the guy their fighting is still going to keep making money in WWE regardless.
 

Norrin Radd

To me, my board!
Joined
Jun 9, 2013
Messages
48,656
Reputation
10,274
Daps
223,722
Reppin
Zenn-La
I still don't know why TNA even wants the trouble of a possible legal battle over this shyt :mindblown:

You going to waste money in court over something that is worthless to you as a company because it revolves around a guy (& his family) who isn't there anymore. While their busy throwing that money away for something that they can't even use if they won in court, the guy their fighting is still going to keep making money in WWE regardless.
Pride, ego, and pettiness :yeshrug:
 
Top