WWE files new trademark, potentially for new NXT signing
WWE has filed to trademark the phrase Bakusai. The company filed with the following description this week (on June 26th):
“Entertainment services, namely, wrestling exhibitions and performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer rendered live and through broadcast media including television and radio, and via the internet or commercial online service; providing wrestling news and information via a global computer network; providing information in the fields of sports and entertainment via an online community portal; providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information; fan club services, namely, organizing sporting events in the field of wrestling for wrestling fan club members; organizing social entertainment events for entertainment purposes for wrestling fan club members; providing online newsletters in the fields of sports entertainment; online journals, namely blogs, in the field of sports entertainment.”
Who is Bakusai?
We do not currently have an official update on who, or what, Bakusai is. The “performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer” obviously appears to indicate that it will be an in-ring performer, and there are currently rumors that it could be the former New Japan Pro Wrestling star Hiromu Takahashi.
Takahashi left NJPW earlier this year, just like his former colleague EVIL. EVIL debuted in NXT on the April 28 episode by confronting NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo. WWE then revealed in a vignette that EVIL would be going by the name Naraku going forward.
There were rumors that Takahashi would be joining WWE under the name Nox Raijin, but these were debunked by F4W’s own Bryan Alvarez in an earlier report.
Again, we do not confirmation of this being Takahashi’s name in the company as of writing.
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