A current champion in WWE has been accused of stealing a trademarked name from an independent tag team.<\/p>\n
The card for WrestleMania 39 has begun to take shape following Elimination Chamber 2023. Asuka won the Women’s Elimination Chamber match to earn<\/a> a RAW Women’s Championship bout against Bianca Belair at WrestleMania in Los Angeles. Austin Theory successfully defended<\/a> the United States Championship at Elimination Chamber and will walk into the biggest show of the year as champion.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old recently began referring to himself as “The Now” during his promos on WWE RAW. Hale Collins and Vik Dalishus have “The Now” trademarked and have been using it on the independent wrestling scene since 2007.<\/p>\n Speaking on the Brotherly Love Wrestling<\/a><\/em> podcast, they noted that they are still using the name on NWA television at the moment and claimed that Theory is showing a complete lack of creativity by stealing their name.<\/p>\n \u201cClearly we had a trademark since 2007, it\u2019s an idea \u2026 we have told the story many times how we came up with it originally \u2026 how we got together as a team \u2026 the whole story how we have been The Now \u2026 and we have been a team as The Now for fifteen years \u2026 still actively doing it NWA television as we speak right now \u2026 no more disrespectful in any way than to take some else\u2019s intellectual property and pass it off as your own \u2026there is nothing lower in this profession than doing that \u2026 It is a complete lack of creativity, originality, effort,” said Collins and Dalishus. [H\/T: Ringside News<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n