So after hearing about the news of professional wrestler Chris Benoit killing himself and his family last weekend, I looked up a few of my favorite wrestlers on Wikipedia. I used to be a big wreslting fan but I haven't watched professional wrestling since 2001 or so. During the 90s and late 80s I loved the WWF and then the WCW. Hulk Hogan was always, and still is, my favorite wrestler. So I looked up his wikipedia entry and found this little nugget:

Apparently in 2005 Marvel Comics sued World Wrestling Entertainment (aka WWE or WWF before a different lawsuit) over the name "Hulk Hogan." Marvel said it was copyright infringement over the name "Incredible Hulk." I don't know the details of the lawsuit but either Marvel won or WWE settled and now they can no longer call Hulk Hogan, "Hulk Hogan." They have to callhim either "Hogan" or "Hollywood Hogan" (a name he went by during the nWo -New World Order-days). So that means any time they want to say Hulk Hogan they have to bleep out the "Hulk" part. This means that any DVD that has been released after 2005 that contains archived footage of old matches has to censor the word "Hulk." AND any still pictures (and I assume video) where Hogan has the word "Hulk" on his costume, that has to be blacked out. How freakin lame is this. Thank you Marvel for ruining my childhood memories. I was thinking about buying that Hulk Hogan DVD box set that came out a while back but I bet that thing is censored like mad. It's bad enough that they have to bleep out "WWF" thanks to the pansy assed World Wildlife Federation who sued the WWF over the name, even though the WWF had exsisted for decades and they decide to sue out of the blue. It's the same thing here. Marvel just up and decides to sue over the Hulk name for no apparent reason. If anyone has any further details regarding this lawsuit I'd love to hear them. I couldn't find anything when I searched online for it.

This is just another reason to add to my dislike of Marvel over the past year or so, the lame Civil War comic, the killing off of Captain America just to boost sales, several other lame comic books (Annihilation, The Initiative), the lame Fantastic Four sequel,and now this.