World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a wrestler named Glacier, whose gimmick heavily borrowed from Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero. Midway, the publisher of Mortal Kombat, threatened a lawsuit, leading WCW to quickly alter the character's appearance and entrance. Despite the significant investment and the legal threat, the Glacier gimmick ultimately failed to gain traction and was eventually abandoned.
- Entities
- Topic: Gimmicks
- Person: Hulk Hogan
- Person: Eric Bischoff
- Person: Ray Lloyd
- Company: WWF
- Person: Steve Austin
- Company: World Championship Wrestling
- Game: Mortal Kombat
- Company: WWE
- Person: Macho Man Randy Savage
- Company: Midway
- Topic: Professional Wrestling
- Topic: Intellectual Property
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