I would say if the guy actually filed a copyright on that phrase and the copyright office accepted it..
I would say he is a crafty dude.
Becuz that is no easy process to go thru. It takes time and goodly amounts of paperwork back and forth to secure it.
I believe you have to legal proclaim in a newspaper or journal of your intent to copyright something and that means money out of pocket and that can be expensive? etc.
If he does own it then Zeke either pays to transfer ownership or he can purchase usage of the term and ownership reverts back to the wrestler but Zeke can use it only in a specific way.
Like with how is using it.
I don't see a problem or he can do something else instead of "feed me". Create a new move. Patent it and move on.
It's sort of like a domain name for websites. I had a company once and the domain service. The time came to renew it and I was busy and a couple of months later I tried to renew it and somebody had bought it and wanted $10000 for it to sell it to me.
I laughed at first and thought he was joking. He wasn't. So I tweaked my company name and reserved it and moved on.
Poor Zeke.