UFC Files Lawsuit against Worldwide Fighting Championship.

**Shawarma** · Posted On: 1/16/2006 9:01pm

Originally Posted by Namrepus221

Zuffa has successfully "pressured" another company in threatening a suit over something that they claimed to own "world wide exclusive rights" to.

Spike entertainment in japan produces the "Fire Pro" series of wrestling games and had a "Shoot Fight Cage Match" mode in several editions of the games. They were basically no holds bared Octagon cage matches.

Zuffa claimed that they owned the rights to the SHAPE of the Octagon (not the Octagon Cage, just the fact it was octagonal infringed on their copyrights) and demanded Spike change the mode or face legal action.

They ended up changing the mode to be in a 12 sided Dodecagon cage.

Those games are brilliant. Has a ton of thinly disguised famous prowrestlers and MMA fighters. (Bas Rutten is called Boss Docken, Don Frye's called Bone Cry etc.)

I think Zuffa might have had a better case there. I mean, just look at the logo in the middle of the FPW octagon. Blatant ripoff of early UFC logo.

**Roidie McDouchebag** · Posted On: 1/16/2006 9:21pm

Man, the UFC has caught the corporate gay.

**Firebrand** · Posted On: 1/16/2006 9:27pm

Namerepus221 stated.

TNA's ring has 6 sides. Making it a Hexagon. An Octagon has 8 sides.
Simple high school geometry.

I don't watch TNA so never really bothered to count how many sides it has. In reading your post, those TNA commercials came to mind. My bad.

**Firebrand** · Posted On: 1/16/2006 9:32pm

Before the UFC was created, there was no such thing as fighting championships. Long live Dana White.

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 1/16/2006 10:05pm

What the ****? It's like Cola-Cola suing Pepsi-Cola or viceversa. Must be some sort of publicity stunt... or is the UCF planning on suing other smaller NHB orgs like AFC as well????