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7. Somebody In WWE Other Than Triple H Is A Big Fan Of D*ck Jokes
In news from the files of "You couldn't make it up," WWE has this week somehow contrived to conceive of something more embarrassing than the name of the upcoming Great Balls Of Fire pay-per-view: its logo.
For a company that has reduced Bayley from relatable woman with heartwarming inner child to actual toddler, WWE isn't particularly heavy-handed when designing their PPV logos. The No Mercy font might as well be Times New Roman, for how generic it is. WWE gets giddy in the summer heat and uses two whole fonts for SummerSlam. Backlash isn't a picture of Vince McMahon sweating over recent ratings.
Which makes the second of three GBOF logo designs as inscrutable as it does hilarious. WWE went with a graphic of two balls of fire that weren't so much great as they were very obviously reminiscent of two testicles. A burst of rocket flame propelled them past the text, which, of course, was fashioned in the shape of a d*ck. It looked more like E.T.'s finger, in truth, but the placement was enough to cause widespread titters.
You'd think somebody would get fired over it, but this was clearly the work of the mastermind behind the equally hilarious Sin Cara t-shirt disaster of 2011.