10 Worst Examples Of Advertising In Wrestling History

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By Adam Blampied /

Wrestling and advertising go together like a piping hot Chicago Town Pizza and nice cool bottle of Coors Light. Mmmm, delicious. Wrestling has a dedicated TV audience and for years sponsorship has seemed to capitalise on it. The superstars are household names and there's big bucks to be made my renting out your likeness to the nearest corporate brand. Randy Macho Man Savage plugged Slim Jims like his wardrobe depended on it, during the Rock/Cena rivalry of 2011/12 the term Fruity Pebbles was dropped so much that many viewers went diabetic, and the Hulk Hogan produced this. Have a good long watch of this:What? Now, as heinous those these plugs might be, at least didn't interfere too heavily with the actual product, right? If John Cena wants to plug a cereal that's fine, at least the Rock made it entertaining. If Steven Austin and D-Lo Brown wants to plug 1-800-Collect, more power to them, as long as he still kicked ass every Monday night. But this list is concerned with the adverts that were so heinous that they bled into the wrestling we were trying to watch. Brands slithered into promos, on-air segments, and even matches. There was no way to avoid them, and these are the worst examples of brands messin' with the wresslin'.