10 Wrestlers Who Didn’t Deserve To Be On WWE PPV Posters
For the lack of benefit of those with flash photography... 10 baffling WWE poster childs!
Pay-per-view/Network event posters play a crucial part in attracting sought-after casual wrestling fans to the product and paying to watch it.
Over the years there’s been some incredibly good posters (AJ Lee tying up Daniel Bryan on train tracks for No Way Out 2012, Edge doing his best Jack Torrance from The Shining for Backlash 2007, Vince and Shane McMahon’s faces merged for Invasion 2001) and some entirely awful (a close-up of Buff Bagwell’s face pouting for Slamboree 2000, dreadful caricatures of Barack Obama refereeing John Cena and Rey Mysterio for Capitol Punishment 2011, WWE’s graphic department seemingly doing a rush-job for Badd Blood 1997 with The Undertaker grasping at his own severed head for no reason).
When done right posters for events become collectible items, when done bad they become pictures the internet will troll forever.
When a wrestler fronts a pay per view poster there’s a strong likelihood they’re headlining the card or going to be featured in a high-profile match or even in line for a major push with the company having faith in them. But there are times when the marketing for a show doesn’t match up with the card, at all.
Here we’ll look at 10 wrestlers who did not deserve to be front and centre for the cover of a pay-per-view poster for WWE...