Wrestling fans spotted

LeeJM · 09-09-2014 8:51pm #1

Dunno if this thread will take off or not, but thought it would be an idea to point when you have seen somebody you dont know in a wrestling t-shirt/shirt/hat etc...

Today I was in Newbridge shopping centre and saw a guy with the Luke Harper Wyatt "Hes got the whole world in his hands" shirt on. Looked pretty cool I must say.

carpothepunk · 09-09-2014 9:24pm

"Wrestling dudes in non wrestling places"

rovert · 09-09-2014 9:30pm

A Daniel Bryan Bear hoodie in Jervis Shopping Centre today.

My all time was someone is a The One Billy Gunn shirt in DIT Aungier Street about 3 years ago.

Hashtag_HEEL · 09-09-2014 9:30pm

Saw a man in Camden street with a blue Ziggler hoodie

CastorTroy · 09-09-2014 10:38pm

I remember back before Money in the Bank and just after BNB's injury was announced, I saw someone wearing a BNB tshirt, so I was tempted to tell the guy he was injured, starting off with "I'm afraid I've got some bad news" of course. But I resisted

MitchKoobski · 09-09-2014 10:44pm

When I was in secondary school, one guy wore the Rikishi "Rikishi Phatu And Yo Mama Too" t-shirt for no uniform day.

He wasn't the most popular wrestling fan in the school, let alone popular kid.

seandotcomm · 09-09-2014 11:01pm

I passed a guy on the street recently in a pink Ziggler tshirt. I was wearing a blue one.
We had a moment....

MitchKoobski · 09-09-2014 11:20pm

The 'Best In The World' t-shirt was rampant a month after MITB 2011, no matter where you were. The fans were coming out of the closet in droves.

jaykhunter · 09-09-2014 11:48pm

Definitely. I was around Henry St. and this lad had a black trench coat but a punk tee and taped wrists with X's on them. It was incredible really.

Ape Lincoln · 10-09-2014 12:16am

I bought a few Steve Austin shirts from Forbidden Planet in the late 1990's/2000 and had some approach me in a shopping centre asking where I'd got it. Thought that was a bit odd but I suppose those shirts weren't that common then.

I wore my OSW shirt about a while ago and got a few looks off of people including one guy in a shop who I told about the podcast. He seemed very interested in it.

Saw a white CM Punk shirt on someone in the Dublin Castle garden. Punk made it cool for a while I guess.

jaykhunter · 10-09-2014 12:53am

Aw that's boss! Love it mate! That's like the nicest thing you can do

Propane Nightmare · 10-09-2014 1:02am

jaykhunter wrote: »

Definitely. I was around Henry St. and this lad had a black trench coat but a punk tee and taped wrists with X's on them. It was incredible really.

Im cringing here just picturing that

SureYWouldntYa · 10-09-2014 2:43am

Last April the night after Mania I had about 50 people chanting YES in Diceys. Me and 2 others in our DB tees on top of a table leading it. These people had absolutely no idea what was going on. But my god it was the best thing ever. Bouncers should have put us out but it was going down so well with the crowd they couldn't

Reganio 2 · 10-09-2014 12:15pm

Thinking about it Cm Punk seemed to make wrestling tshirts cool for a while still see the odd one doing the rounds but very rarely any other wrestlers ones. People doing you can't see me is a popular one but I don't think they get the reference.

Lord TSC · 10-09-2014 12:35pm

Punk (and Orton too, in fairness) have had a few over recent times that were overtly wrestling shirts to fans, but not to non-fans, meaning they were wearable by adults. I love my white Pun shirt, and have a few Orton ones too.

Do wear "YES! YES! YES!" from time to time as well :P

CSF · 10-09-2014 12:39pm

Reganio 2 wrote: »

Thinking about it Cm Punk seemed to make wrestling tshirts cool for a while still see the odd one doing the rounds but very rarely any other wrestlers ones. People doing you can't see me is a popular one but I don't think they get the reference.

Yeah pretty much whenever I see someone in a WWE tshirt, it's Punk or a kid wearing Cena gear

jaykhunter · 10-09-2014 2:22pm

seandotcomm wrote: »

I passed a guy on the street recently in a pink Ziggler tshirt. I was wearing a blue one. We had a moment....

Beakerjoe that you?

Chip Whitley · 10-09-2014 8:04pm

I was reading this thread earlier and thinking that I never see any wrestling tshirts out and about but lo and behold on my way home earlier I drove past a guy wearing a yellow Punk GTS tee! One of the nicest WWE tees of recent years imo.

Turtyturd · 10-09-2014 8:15pm

Ape Lincoln wrote: »

I bought a few Steve Austin shirts from Forbidden Planet in the late 1990's/2000 and had some approach me in a shopping centre asking where I'd got it. Thought that was a bit odd but I suppose those shirts weren't that common then.

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Back then the only place you could get them was in FP and Virgin Megastore on the quays.

It was also a case of if you wanted a wrestling tshirt you had to buy whatever was in stock. I had a Road Dogg Roll the Dog a Bone' tshirt despite being apathetic towards the Road Dogg and not having a clue what the slogan actually meant.

LeeJM · 10-09-2014 9:28pm

Back around 1999 when the tshirt print stores were everywhere and they had WWF a fair few Austin, DX and The Rock designs. The day before WMXV I got a HHH DX tshirt and thought I was the dogs you know what. Fast forward 48 hrs and HHH has joined the Corporation, not such a good purchase!

LeeJM · 10-09-2014 9:33pm

Apologies for the double post I tried editing but wont work for some reason, I left out the word prints after WWF.

Soft Falling Rain · 10-09-2014 9:54pm

Brendão wrote: »

I was reading this thread earlier and thinking that I never see any wrestling tshirts out and about but lo and behold on my way home earlier I drove past a guy wearing a yellow Punk GTS tee! One of the nicest WWE tees of recent years imo.

Funny, I remember that T getting a whole load of grief, with even a few tin foilists claiming that the yellow was intentional in order to increase his heat during his heel run.

hufpc8w3adnk65 · 11-09-2014 7:56am

I have a classic nWo black and white tshirt and an Austin 3:16 one that I break out from time too time and love them! Allways get looks and some people even throw up the click gesture! (Disclaimer: by some I mean 2 people in around 6 years!)

JrdanB · 11-09-2014 8:15am

I'm wearing my Cactus Jack Wanted Dead t-shirt today, which is arguably the greatest wrestling tee of all time - actually, that's what I'd like to see! We've had the theme music wars and recently the hardcore championship thingy - what's the best piece of Merchandise?

montyrebel · 11-09-2014 11:53am

In London in Feb of this year with a friend for her hospital appointment and had time to kill afterwards, so we went to the Natural History museum, saw a kid about 9 or 10 years old in a Ryback t shirt

gerrybbadd · 11-09-2014 12:23pm

Growing up in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, it was impossible to get wrestling shirts. The nearest big town was Sligo, and they had nothing.

So, one week, the Irish Sun had a mail order offer on for t-shirts. I bought 2. One with a picture of The Rock on it, and another really cool one, Undertaker, with Stigmata crosses on his palms. The Taker one was like maternity wear however, and was down to my knees.

Later on, I got a Rock - "your role - know it, your Mouth - shut it" Tee. This one was like a belly top!!!

ShagNastii · 11-09-2014 12:27pm

Me and my mate had to laugh at the 02 houseshow back in May. Sandow did the old Kurt Angle “I’m going to come out again. And this time you will NOT boo me, you will STAND and applaud my greatness”. Cue Sandow coming out from behind the curtain for a second time. Every kid in the place sat on their hands booing whilst guys of a certain age and taste stood tall gleefully cheering and applauding Sandow. I was practically spot the OSW shirt. We marked hard. I was great to see fellow noggers in attendance.

Pingi · 11-09-2014 12:42pm

MitchKoobski wrote: »

When I was in secondary school, one guy wore the Rikishi "Rikishi Phatu And Yo Mama Too" t-shirt for no uniform day.

He wasn't the most popular wrestling fan in the school, let alone popular kid.

I think I worked with this guy (there cant be 2) he wore it to work a lot, I asked him if he watched wrestling one day and he said "Not in a few years"

...AWKWARD

I wear my Japan/Indy stuff to the gym regularly

D-FENS · 11-09-2014 1:45pm

I was down in Portlaoise a few months ago with my son, wearing my Wyatt family shirt (from Turnbuckle Tees, love it) and a guy passing us in the shopping centre pointed at me and said “follow the buzzards”, kept walking.

Years ago, on my honeymoon, my wife and I were on a trip to Niagara Falls and got talking to a couple. the guy told us he was from Charlotte, NC and I said without thinking “Ah, Flair Country”. He actually did laugh, his wife hadn't a clue what I meant (she was Japanese), mine did and was mortified.

Wrestling fans spotted

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