A-list celebrity and professional sports-entertainer Michael “The Miz” Mizanin has launched a lawsuit against his employer, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), for copyright infringement, alleging that the company’s logo is a “blatantly inverted copycat” of his own “personal brand.”

WWE has denied any wrongdoing — insisting instead that Mizanin’s logo is, in fact, an inversion of the company’s long-trademarked logo. A WWE spokesperson, identified only as V.K.M., dismissed Mizanin’s allegations as “quite frankly preposterous, quite frankly.”

In a statement issued by its lawyer, WWE claimed that the “stacked-W design has, in various incarnations, been the recognized symbol of excellence in sports entertainment since 1992, pre-dating Mizanin’s stacked M design by decades.”

Through his own attorney, Mizanin issued the following brief statement: “Really?”

Hounded by reporters to clarify his statement during an impromptu press conference on the set of The Marine 12: Marine Goes to Camp, Mizanin repeated the word “really” two-dozen more times before storming into his trailer.

 

[Thank you Bob Martin for the silly idea].