A guide to WWE t-shirts

World’s Greatest T-Shirt

Whether you want to admit it or not, fashion is synonymous with pro wrestling for both the wrestlers and the fans. With the in-ring talent, it’s complicated. It’s maybe half of their whole identity and the first thing you (usually) inhale of them in your mind grapes. It can be as simple as classic black trunks like Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Stone Cold Steve Austin all the way to the incredibly intricate stylings of Finn Bálor or Disco Inferno.

There are millions of different styles and combinations and moving parts that can make up the way a pro wrestler just looks, and in turn how we react to them at first sight. We, as die-hard fans with an out-of-step obsession with grabby/punchy/kicky sports, get t-shirts.

But honestly, T-shirts can be pretty sweet. And sure, while we get other trinkets like Cobra socks and Kevin Owens shorts and butt cereal, T-shirts are the primary vessel for fans to show the world they spend most of their time inside windowless rooms combing the internet for Mean Street Posse statistics. But not every shirt is a keeper. For every classic, there’s a Nasty Boys fumble. For every aesthetically superior design there’s a King Of Swing disgrace. But I’m here to help. I know classic. I know Aesthetics. I know T-shirts.

So here’s a selection of some of my favorites, and some straight up kings of ‘Wrong’ style.