{"id":45450,"date":"2017-11-06T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45450"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:38:17","slug":"i-hope-he-ends-up-like-jay-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45450","title":{"rendered":"I hope he ends up like Jay-Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For reasons nobody will ever know<\/a>: Sean-Puff-Diddy-I-Really-Killed-Tupac-and-Biggie changes his name for the 57th<\/sup> time, anointing himself as \u201cLove,\u201d or \u201cBrother Love\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone\u2019s guess is as good as any; but ultimately, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any stretch to assume that when the day is over, it\u2019s just Diddy\u2019s way of trying to get attention, as if he felt like the news of the world has lulled too long without any news of himself in it, so he does something stupid like changing his name so that people get to talking about him again.\u00a0 Ironically, I\u2019m writing about it, among countless others, so it\u2019s not entirely a bad tactic, except that the general consensus of scuttlebutt is either along the lines of criticism, or if anything at all, why<\/em>??<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, to me, this wouldn\u2019t have been even a drip in the bucket if not for the fact that he\u2019s given himself the name of Brother Love<\/strong> on top of just \u2018Love.\u2019\u00a0 Because to wrestling-loving nerds like myself, there\u2019s only one person in the world synonymous with the name Brother Love \u2013 the red-faced, white suit wearing, original manager of the Undertaker, Brother Love<\/em>, portrayed by Bruce Pritchard.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a safe bet to assume that Diddy didn\u2019t bother to check for any overlap, or any conflicts of similarity, because he\u2019s an insufferable attention whore that doesn\u2019t really think before he acts, but I\u2019m agitated that he took the namesake of an iconic personality, whether or not he knew of his existence or not.\u00a0 I mean sure, professional wrestling is pretty silly, but it\u2019s also not an invisible niche industry, and Pritchard himself works for the largest, publicly traded wrestling company on the planet, so it\u2019s not like he\u2019s one of the no-name scrubs in the world using the moniker of Brother Love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Regardless, none of this is really going to change that Diddy is going to go about the rest of his self-aggrandizing life proclaiming himself to be Brother Love, and smarks like me are going to twitch upon hearing it in his own obnoxious context.<\/span><\/p>\n

I really hope that either Pritchard or the WWE themselves got a lock down on the moniker, so they could take legal action against Diddy, but it really is a toss-up.\u00a0 They\u2019re shrewd enough to get legal rights to stuff like The Dudley Boyz to where the actual Dudleys themselves can\u2019t even use the name that put them on the map outside of the WWE.\u00a0 But at the same time, a concept much less the words Brother and Love are kind of broad, and debatable on whether or not it\u2019s even possible to legally lock up.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I could really hope that they do, and within days, we\u2019ll hear a follow up story about how Diddy will be legally forced to stop using the name Brother Love, and furthermore actually be obligated to pay out a settlement to the WWE to avoid getting taken to court over copyright infringement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much like Jay-Z jobbing to DDP<\/a> over the use of the Diamond Cutter hand gesture, it would be a pretty fucking epic conclusion to see Puff Daddy jobbing to of all wrestling personalities in the industry, Brother Love.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For reasons nobody will ever know: Sean-Puff-Diddy-I-Really-Killed-Tupac-and-Biggie changes his name for the 57th time, anointing himself as \u201cLove,\u201d or \u201cBrother Love\u201d Anyone\u2019s guess is as good as any; but ultimately, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any stretch to assume that when the day is over, it\u2019s just Diddy\u2019s way of trying to get attention, as if … Continue reading I hope he ends up like Jay-Z<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,52,146,54,55],"class_list":["post-45450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-owned","tag-triggered","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45452,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45450\/revisions\/45452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}