5 WWE name changes fans immediately disliked

#1 WWF becomes WWE

Get the F out

Remember when WWE lost a lawsuit to the World Wildlife Fund? That was weird. Back in 1994, Titan Sports agreed to a deal with the World Wide Fund for Nature where they would limit the use of the WWF acronym in their broadcasts and advertising.

In 2000, though, the World Wide Fund for Nature sued World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. in the UK, claiming that they'd violated the 1994 agreement, which led to the company officially changing their name two years later.

Weirder still was the World Wrestling Federation's ad campaign to change their name. In an effort to get fans behind the move, they began airing ads that were punctuated with the phrase "Get the F Out!"

Several raunchy and/or violent adverts punched home the message that the "F" wasn't cool and that it was time to move on and evolve. The company would focus more on the "entertainment" aspect of things.

To this day, hardcore and older fans of wrestling still refuse to call WWE by their name, referring to them still as WWF or simply, "the fed." It's a little crazy to think, honestly, that the now World Wildlife Fund was able to force such a major change on a company that's often refused to budge on several occasions. After all, Vince McMahon is not usually one to admit defeat.