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The Big Red Lawsuit?

By Scott Keith on 11 August 2013


Random question – I remember for many years Kane was billed as the “Big Red Machine”, but in the last number of years (not sure when exactly) they changed it to the “Big Red Monster” (which I personally have never gotten used to hearing.) Was there any reason for this change? Was there a copyright issue with the Cincinatti Reds?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Red_Machine

Nope. Things like this are generally just at the whim of Vince, to be honest. Just like Championships cannot be belts, and any wrestler not from America will be booed instantly, thus they all must hail from where ever their last hotel stay was at. I could seriously Vince walking in one morning and saying “I saw Frankenstein this morning! Scared the hell out of me! Saw Fast & Furious, didn’t scare me! Cars are machines! Frankenstein is a monster! What the hell have we been doing?! Plus I heard there’s something called a Goldberg Machine, and we already have crowds chanting Goldberg at Ryback, we don’t need them chanting Goldberg at Kane! He’s the Big Red Monster from now on!”

Although I’m pretty sure I heard them refer to him as the BRM lately, but I could just be thinking of an old PPV match I saw recently or something. 

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