Legal hurdles that could be a problem have been identified as making it difficult for AEW and the expected new hire to the company.
According to a report by Luchablog, AEW has reached an agreement with the former AAA Latin American Champion Black Taurus.
Black Taurus has carved out an impressive track record in Mexico throughout AAA as well as CMLL and has been able to make waves to the American market in recent times through appearances with TNA/IMPACT and more recently, a couple of games in AEW Rampage, and ROH TV against El Hijo Del Vikingo.
Although AEW is evidently keen to see more Taurus in their programming it is possible that they will have to face some legal hurdles to over come.
According to Luchablog, pertain specifically to specifically the Black Taurus character itself and the complicated relationship among Taurus and AAA in regards to the rights to the game.
As Luchablog describes, Black Taurus originally competed under the name Taurus in AAA but, after departure from the company in the year 2016 he changed the title to Black Taurus and would register the ownership of this name to use for his own purposes.
After returning back to AAA two years after that Black Taurus would return to the ‘Taurus’ moniker however, he continued to use the name he had rights to when competing with other companies and something AAA would permit, even when competing against TNA/IMPACT.
However, it appears it is possible that AAA is not completely happy in Black Taurus continuing to use his name while competing with AEW and could cause a change from the character completely as a way to avoid legal problems.
The report states that although AEW as well as Black Taurus would have a solid argument using the character’s name on their programs however, the long-running legal process surrounding Luchasaurus masks could deter the two from putting themselves in danger.
In the end Luchablog anticipates Black Taurus to sacrifice the Taurus’ name entirely to go with something different which is something he was already preparing for prior to his move to AEW.
