10 WWE Superstars With The Worst T-Shirts EVER
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Wrestling t-shirts are an acquired taste. They are, however, a genuine currency in the modern era. Cody Rhodes' All In event, for all its incredible success, is already stacking cash on top of cash by slapping the logo on every bit of merchandise fit to make. Far from just icing on a cake, the merch game is now a second desert after the main course of the match itself.
Vince McMahon always knew this of course. He was lightyears ahead of his opposition back in the 1980s even if the sight of toys piled high in his office put off his more old school employees.
Attending a WWE show now is tantamount to a stroll through a Toys R Us. Multiple merch stands are swamped with items ranging from clothing to christmas decorations, with almost every superstar well furnished. Chris Jericho famously requested WWE not flog his gear during his time as a heel to sell the character - but has since reneged on that as part of his work with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Bullet Club and Los Ingobernables de Japon-inspired gear earned 'Y2J' a spot in the lucrative Hot Topic detal brokered between NJPW and the superstore - the royalty cheques were too great to turn down.
It's for this reason, and this reason alone, that he (didn't) JUST MAKE THE LIST! But plenty of his colleagues absolutely sailed through...
10. Randy Orton
There's much to unpick about some of the absolute abominations afforded to the Randy Orton range over the past decade and a half, but at least the section that stunk the most came in-built with a solution to the problem.
A gas-mask aesthetic (particularly when paired with the 'Viper' eyes) was hideous from a design standpoint but also largely at odds with how he was presented on screen. He was a threat, a danger and a poison himself - not the fix for the problem he allegedly presented.
Paired with his brief 'Age Of Orton' catchphrase, the item made even less sense. Why would a company overtaken by the picture perfect model of a "WWE Superstar from the ground up" want the supposed top star's fizzog obscured by such a clunky artifice? Was it at all possible that the supposed creative investment in his persona wasn't really that high after all, or were the merchandise decision-makers making a tacit comment on the impact the overuse of chinlocks were having on his tedious matches?