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Post by blissfan4life on Sept 9, 2017 10:17:17 GMT -5
I agree, they should have Billie Kay and Peyton Royce shirts.
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hbkowns
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Post by hbkowns on Sept 9, 2017 11:57:47 GMT -5
Punks MITB 2011 shirt and Bryan's yes shirt from 2014 stick out to me. Also the "Dean Unstable Ambrose" shirt is also good.
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Post by A-Rob on Sept 9, 2017 15:32:26 GMT -5
There are no mega stars, ask a non wrestling fans to name a wrestler currently in WWE and they'll probably say John Cena. It also doesn't help that most of the shirts look horrible.
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Post by ⚕ ⚚ ʍօʀռɨռɢֆȶǟʀ ⚚ ⚕ on Sept 9, 2017 15:45:54 GMT -5
Not got a wrestling shirt since... damn, maybe the old RVD dragon/ying yang one. A Iconic Duo shirt wouldn't change that. Love their characters and in-ring work but if they're gonna' s*it out 5+ shirts before they hit it big, it'll feel like an empty purchase.
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Post by Kanenite on Sept 9, 2017 18:29:50 GMT -5
I think a big problem is the fact all the shirts have the same cartoony art design/style or is a phrase in a bold basic font. In the 90's and early 2000's they had a better variety IMO. They used to look like album covers.
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Post by BROKEN on Sept 9, 2017 21:38:43 GMT -5
Edges Rated R shirt
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Post by WalterF on Sept 10, 2017 7:24:58 GMT -5
It's in part because there aren't huge icons today, popularity among wrestlers is far more fragmented and evenly spread .... so no one wrestlers shirt is going to just soar and soar above others in WWE. Another is the fact that WWE's current model is to churn out more different designs for each wrestlers and cycle them faster so no single shirt hangs around for a very long time.
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Post by LA Times on Sept 10, 2017 12:37:29 GMT -5
Is John Cena's Nintendo shirt his most iconic?
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Post by Nivro™ on Sept 10, 2017 13:26:41 GMT -5
To me shirts need to be more simple. Shirts now days just have way too much going on. Think of your classic shirts, Hulkamania, Hot Rod, nWo, DX, Austin 3:16....They were all just simple logos on solid color shirts. It seems now you have shirts like all of Cenas that look like someone threw up a bowl of fruity pebbles on a tshirt. I dont need all those bright ass colors making me stand out like a road cone.
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 10, 2017 16:20:43 GMT -5
The most recent iconic shirt was Daniel Bryan's YES! shirt, but other than that. Every wrestler tends to get a new shirt every month or so. The NO! shirt was pretty iconic too along with the Respect The Beard shirt
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Sept 10, 2017 19:55:26 GMT -5
Ive NEVER thought the original nor ANY KO shirts looked iconic. But the original one was probably the worst one made. The last iconic shirt I can think of....Punk's MITB shirt. WWE churns out so many different versions so often nowadays, its hard to create an iconic shirt. The shirts you are talking about became iconic...not just for who wore it, but the fact they werent putting as many out at the time. When I got my first Austin 3:16 shirt, Austin was still a heel and it was the ONLY shirt he had. I think it was more than a year or so before Austin got a 2nd shirt. DX had their original shirt and it was quite sometime before they would have another. Notice how the other ones, when they started cranking them out, all became a dime a dozen. Also, keep in mind that once these guys started churning merch....none of those shirts ever became iconic....Hogan and Rock might be the only exceptions. Austin had the lame half skull/half human shirt after his 3:16 shirt that he wore in '97, but it wasn't until after he won the title at WM14 when they really started pumping out the new merchandise for him regularly (SCU, Raise Some Hell, etc.). After that, it seemed like they would come out with a new shirt for him every month, but he would still alternate the shirts he wore. Nowadays, if you debut a new shirt, you won't ever see the guy wear his old one ever again. That shirt was long after Austin 3:16 and like you you said was lame.
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Sept 10, 2017 19:56:29 GMT -5
Ive NEVER thought the original nor ANY KO shirts looked iconic. But the original one was probably the worst one made. The last iconic shirt I can think of....Punk's MITB shirt. WWE churns out so many different versions so often nowadays, its hard to create an iconic shirt. The shirts you are talking about became iconic...not just for who wore it, but the fact they werent putting as many out at the time. When I got my first Austin 3:16 shirt, Austin was still a heel and it was the ONLY shirt he had. I think it was more than a year or so before Austin got a 2nd shirt. DX had their original shirt and it was quite sometime before they would have another. Notice how the other ones, when they started cranking them out, all became a dime a dozen. Also, keep in mind that once these guys started churning merch....none of those shirts ever became iconic....Hogan and Rock might be the only exceptions.But they were still wore. DX pumped out quite a few shirts including the football jerseys but they never stopped wearing the original DX shirt. They debut it in 1997 and I remember HHH still wearing it in 1999. Exactly my point. The iconic shirt was worn.
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Post by xtremebadass on Sept 10, 2017 21:09:08 GMT -5
If John Cena stopped changing his shirts every 4 months, some of his merchandise would be iconic.
CM Punk's white BITW shirt along with Cena's 2011 Rise About Hate shirt are iconic. That Cena shirt is so popular it is still parodied outside WWE.
None of WWE's current stars have iconic merch. Roman's merch is so bland and boring just like he is.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Sept 11, 2017 1:55:45 GMT -5
Aside from a Hogan or Rock shirt, WWE has produced a pure iconic shirt since Austin 3:16
Cena doesn't even have a true iconic shirt. He's had 682 colors of improper grammar and a censor. Or as he is lately ripping off the Florida gators
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Post by IRS on Sept 11, 2017 3:24:41 GMT -5
When I think of an iconic Cena shirt, my mind immediately goes to Word Life or Ruck Fules before any others. Probably in the minority, though.
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Post by Rated [R] NinJa on Sept 11, 2017 4:55:05 GMT -5
In 20 years time I'll be 44 and I hope to god I'm never seen in a wrestling shirt even if it is one of the "iconic" ones mentioned by OP. That being said wrestling is nowhere near as popular now as it was compared to when the Macho Man, NWO, DX, Austin 3:16 t-shirts were first available so why would there be an iconic shirt out now when absolutely no one is doing anything important or worth mentioning outside of the wrestling world? That's not discrediting the fact that there has been a few good ones like Punk's BITW top, Nakamura's "STRONG STYLE HAS ARRIVED" and my personal favourites Dolph's "It's not showing off", "stealing the show" and "you wish you could" shirts among others.
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