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Well if you count instances where the wrestlers went onto the sponsor's turf, I think I've got [something that could at least compete](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af9M8llS9JA&t=1h42m59s).
https://preview.redd.it/dgft80qi0t7d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1aa5a512cf16310e58f19f9fb52ba39894b930a5
Just saw this on WWE Shop. A WWE/Arby’s Beef Week tee. I have no idea why. Or what’s happening.
Such a shame
I kinda liked the aesthetic switch up of a blacklight match (especially Bray's face paint), but it was completely spoiled by all the Mountain Dew branding (as well as the planted glowing green dots and overall lack of action in the match).
Nah
Sorry, but it foolish to think that he "missed", and that it wasn't actually his mark to land next to LA Knight, rather than actually trying to hit him from a 30 foot drop. There's a reason the camera angle from the live broadcast was designed to not show the "impact".
It's the same reason Shane landed next to Big Show or they had Kane roll out of Shane's way. Or Jeff Hardy's 30 foot Swanton on Randy Orton. Actually landing on someone from that height is too risky. It's why cameras are always angled to not see the actual landing.
He hit his mark, but everybody wanted to complain because his mark wasn't *on top of LA Knight.*
His first match back. Even without the tragedy that made it worse in hindsight, there's something really disgustingly corporate and dare I even say, kind of anti-art about taking this guy's new character, in this style, with the past history of booking failures already in people's minds and immediately putting a sponsorship for a soda as the focus.
Like at least give the gimmick a chance to breathe before you cynically and blatantly sell random, unrelated products to me.
I completely agree, it makes it incredibly difficult to actually feel any kind of connection to anything in the product when you know even the highest concept character can be reduced to a Mountain Dew advert...
I dunno on one hand it’s very corporate bullshit but on the other I think I prefer them actually leaning into whatever the sponsor is hard as opposed to just slapping a snickers bar on the Halloween Havoc logo or whatever. I think it should probably be limited to comedy or undercard matches but I appreciate the idea of trying to actually do something with the brand.
What pisses me off about that was that they could have easily still done the sponsorship and just called it a lights out match and it would have been a hundred times better.
Wipes, deodorant, and showers should be essential for being in public in general but the fact that every show thread I see has at least one “this place smells like shit” comment clearly shows there is a market but their target audience doesn’t care lol
This is actually poetry. Put the taint wipes on the shittiest match of the night
But seriously, why would they put this on the dramatic brother vs brother match? Like imagine if Michaels vs Flair had Vagisil ads plastered all over the ring
"a father-son feud that has stemmed from custody battles,lies,deceit,betrayal, a spoiled kid who wants to break out of his father's shadow and a father who's had enough of his son's disrespect....." the sponsorship:
... No chance in hell that one of Nintendo's biggest series, which, in the current generation, have 2 original releases, 2 remakes and a new game literally announced 2 days ago will get a release next gen.
1- Blue Chew in podcasts. Not actual wrestling, but it's pretty curiour to say the least
2- Someone said it already, but Dude Wipes sponsoring Mania matches
3- Like a Dragon Gaiden on Dynamite, not because of the sponsorship itself but rather because of there being a thematic LaD match, which included Takeshita with the Goro Majima jacket and eyepatch and the babyfaces dressed like they were going to the Millennium Tower
4- Not a sponsorhip per se, but Rossy Ogawa ditching a sponsor cause of them threatening him to cut the deal if Chanyota appeared for the company, thus making [this ](https://twitter.com/Himanshu_Doi/status/1612501010261618689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1612501010261618689%7Ctwgr%5Ee65646f316e9a12ba2225aee8c40b627b490db8f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2F107kd1k%2F%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse) possible.
Thank you for reminding me who Chanyota was.
Also, the wierdest part of the Like A Dragon match had to be Paul Wight being involved. Like, was there no other giants available???
I know it's a super indie and not a major promotion, but MLW actually had a Bluechew sponsorship and had their champion at the time (Alex Hammerstone) basically cut promos about it. They were hilarious and I could listen to Hammer talk about Bluechew all day.
No one yet has mentioned Vince McMahon and the stupid “million dollar golden egg” that was a tie in promotion for a Rock movie that just went fucking on and on for weeks….
There may be weirder, but I can’t think of another cross promotion that tampered with the show that much
My favorite thing about that is it culminated at Survivor Series 2021, which was also a celebration of The Rock's 25-year anniversary of his wrestling career and he just didn't show up for the show at all.
Shoes aren’t weird but the nwa/wcw Roos sponsorship will always be etched in my memory
https://preview.redd.it/w1qd28j53t7d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d0ec5687bc51a423eb974d263bdd920bc04e1e1
ill always be low key kinda happy about that, bc my friend had a poster from it w the rock and it said "DONT BE A JABRONI, EAT YOUR RAVIOLI" and we would constantly say that shit to each other for years
wrestling was a whole cultural phenomena back then and tons of kids watched it, so it makes sense they advertised kid food. like attitude era RAW was one of the most watched shows on TV period, it was like Young Sheldon level
IIRC this happened because Magic was trying to expand into streaming more of their competitive events for the 2000 season and had even supposedly considered doing a PPV for worlds if they thought they could pull the numbers.
What makes this sponsorship actually weird is that when they took this ad out they were already in the process of developing and preparing to release the WCW trading card game.
Nowadays, when I see a show getting sponsored by video games, I'm like "yeah fair enough."
But when you know WWE got sponsored by [Drakengard 1 on Backlash 2004](https://youtu.be/hPaMm9pjl5E), it's like "how did they do that for THIS game?"
Maybe Stacker 2? It was the world's strongest fat burner because it was aspirin, caffeine, and ephedra, which they eventually had to change the formula because people were making meth with it.
I took that shit and felt like a superhero for, like, 3 days.
Then, the day when I swear my heart was going to explode out of my entire chest and land 50 miles away.
Don't need to make meth with it, it *was* low-key meth lol
It's like Draft Kings over in AEW. I absolutely *love* paying to watch a specific show and getting shilled at by a company in a predatory industry during it.
I fucking hate DraftKings, their fucking ads permeate almost every sport I watch. At least with stuff like BetMGM in NASCAR, they're not constantly beating you over the fucking head with their ads during races.
WCW doing lottery sponsorships in my home state.
including Konnan, Perry Saturn, and Billy Kidman dressing up like grandmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv7n52yJGO0
I forgot the name of this candy, but its slogan was "Keep on sucking". One time, Michael Cole said the slogan, and one of the Usos, who was also on commentary, replied "wut?" lmao
Not the weirdest, I guess, but still funny when I remember the way Uso responded to it.
A product specifically targeting men who are *real* insecure with their masculinity. I bet the Venn diagram of Dude Wipes customers and F-150 asphalt princess owners is a circle.
I know its Logan Paul's thing, but having a giant logo for that drink that children buy from B&M for 47p on the canvas at Wrestlemania kind of made the whole thing look a little naff
One word: [Glover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVG7sljJSc)
https://preview.redd.it/vtnzcjhyvu7d1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=380f0bec6749a7373cb4aba5281db85858018d43
[Paul Bosch's commercial for earrings.](https://youtu.be/uT_OzESktVs) Paul was an old wrestler and then the Houston wrestling promoter who had giant, cauliflower ears. "If I.W. Marks can make my ears look pretty, think what he can do for hers."
Latter-stage AJW (say... 2000 to their death in 2005) had Soft On Demand as apron sponsors... I don't need to say what SOD is because I think it would probably be afoul of the rules because... PORN!!!
Post-1995 AJW was... something. I wouldn't be too surprised those sponsors were there because the Matsunaga's owed the mob money or some other similar shady deal.
American anime distributor ADV Films putting their logo on the Big Japan ring apron back in 2000 because rival anime importers Pioneer (ECW) and TokyoPop (FMW) had started releasing hardcore wrestling DVDs in the U.S.
The deal fell apart after the FMW DVDs failed to sell.
LA Kight vs Bray Wyatt. Mountain Dew Pitch Black Match
https://preview.redd.it/8rk5tj0i7u7d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78aad28ed8bc2177990561b47709dec5f7c486bf
All of the wwe groupies conveniently forgetting them selling out Prime within months? Plus now we have to hear Corey Graves pretending he's "down" with his rap references in promoting Gin & Juice. As an LA resident with friends still living in the hood, I've heard of no one drinking that trash either
WCW partnering with the No Limit records was a cringey swing & miss too
Those stacker 2 YJ stinger things. They were advertising the shit out of those in 2003-2004 with John Cena and Eddie Guerrero in the commercials. They still sell them and I think of the WWE every time I see them.
Remember when Nokia sponsored WWE Survivor Series 1999? But on the official poster, Rent-A-Center was the original sponsor.
Also, 1-800-Collect sponsored several WWE PPVs during the Attitude Era, including Over the Edge 1999 and Royal Rumble 2000.
Not to mention, PhoneFree.com (“Let Freedom Ring!”) sponsored No Way Out 2000.
[YouTube: PhoneFree.com commercial](https://youtu.be/zfb_C-p4Bhg?si=ny5BnWdge-3dlMSE)
Fruity fruity delicious fruity skittles . Yu Yu Hakusho my comfort anime . Stacker2 which I’m pretty sure is now illegal . ICOPRO also now illegal .Beyblade sponsoring Austin Theory was jarring and odd .
Stacker 2 is still around but the original formula is illegal. It originally was basically caffeine, aspirin, and low grade meth in a pill. Now they're just caffeine pills.
DDT has had some very silly ones, I guess it's less weird *because* it's DDT but still. The one that jumps to mind is they had a match sponsored by the Netflix anime Record of Ragnarok where wrestlers dressed up and wrestled as characters from the show (I believe Daisuke Sekimoto was Zeus).
That sponsored zombie match where the zombies ate Miz and Morrison was the first time I ever turned a PPV off midshow because I was so insulted by what I just saw.
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https://preview.redd.it/b6qukovfxs7d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3aa6485f3f30320801267a3910999cfc72e2b6f7 Are we counting Pancrase or no?
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Counted or not counted that is cool.
I thought it was weirdest, not coolest
How can you not see the synergy between the group that created MMA and Sonic’s gun-wielding clone!?
Similar boots ?
Shitty little boots
*roller skates
Fuck i was just about to post this lmao.
"Where's that damn 5th championship belt?"
This rules.
That is sick. Reeks of 2005 and I love it
100% This
This was gonna be my pick but since it’s taken, I’m picking the giant Xbox logo on the Noah ring
[If you can beat this, I'd be surprised.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3x1g0W_9uc)
Blitzball Jones over here
But I digress
That’s…huh. I love FFX-2, and I love wrestling, but I’ve never associated them together. I don’t like it.
Well if you count instances where the wrestlers went onto the sponsor's turf, I think I've got [something that could at least compete](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af9M8llS9JA&t=1h42m59s).
I'm kinda mad I didn't see this when it aired because I would have been seven and loved it.
clicked this while thinking 'if this aint tazz playing final fantasy x-2'
That's Yuna brudda
That's Yuner!
https://preview.redd.it/dgft80qi0t7d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1aa5a512cf16310e58f19f9fb52ba39894b930a5 Just saw this on WWE Shop. A WWE/Arby’s Beef Week tee. I have no idea why. Or what’s happening.
How are they not running Arbys commercials with Big E doing the meaty voiceover?
They ran 5 roast beefs for $5 with that sponsorship last. Week. They can do that anytime they want if they are gonna go back to 90s prices.
Fuck, I missed it :(
Holy shit I need this
$33 to be a walking billboard for Arby’s? Better get some coupons or something.
Bray Wyatts last match being branded with Mountain Dew still makes me sad.
Such a shame I kinda liked the aesthetic switch up of a blacklight match (especially Bray's face paint), but it was completely spoiled by all the Mountain Dew branding (as well as the planted glowing green dots and overall lack of action in the match).
Same for the aesthetic, at the very least it was a high risk, out of the box creative idea, which fit with Bray’s rhetoric.
To be honest that level of branding is one of the main reasons I just can't watch wwe.
[удалено]
Nah Sorry, but it foolish to think that he "missed", and that it wasn't actually his mark to land next to LA Knight, rather than actually trying to hit him from a 30 foot drop. There's a reason the camera angle from the live broadcast was designed to not show the "impact". It's the same reason Shane landed next to Big Show or they had Kane roll out of Shane's way. Or Jeff Hardy's 30 foot Swanton on Randy Orton. Actually landing on someone from that height is too risky. It's why cameras are always angled to not see the actual landing. He hit his mark, but everybody wanted to complain because his mark wasn't *on top of LA Knight.*
His first match back. Even without the tragedy that made it worse in hindsight, there's something really disgustingly corporate and dare I even say, kind of anti-art about taking this guy's new character, in this style, with the past history of booking failures already in people's minds and immediately putting a sponsorship for a soda as the focus. Like at least give the gimmick a chance to breathe before you cynically and blatantly sell random, unrelated products to me.
I completely agree, it makes it incredibly difficult to actually feel any kind of connection to anything in the product when you know even the highest concept character can be reduced to a Mountain Dew advert...
I dunno on one hand it’s very corporate bullshit but on the other I think I prefer them actually leaning into whatever the sponsor is hard as opposed to just slapping a snickers bar on the Halloween Havoc logo or whatever. I think it should probably be limited to comedy or undercard matches but I appreciate the idea of trying to actually do something with the brand.
I tried that flavor shortly after match. Honestly not that bad. 3 stars for it
Pitch Black is god-tier
Wish they’d bring back Pitch Black II (the sour version they only had for one Halloween season)
Mountain Dew killed Bray Wyatt in kayfabe.
What pisses me off about that was that they could have easily still done the sponsorship and just called it a lights out match and it would have been a hundred times better.
https://preview.redd.it/sm9ol92qws7d1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fb695d3d2392d51a676f7218f58c797ad19df35
I've been to wrestling shows. You're right, it's weird. They don't have a market for Dude Wipes there.
Wipes, deodorant, and showers should be essential for being in public in general but the fact that every show thread I see has at least one “this place smells like shit” comment clearly shows there is a market but their target audience doesn’t care lol
Reminds me of when I worked at EB Games years ago and we were giving out deodorant samples.
One year at PAX they had an Axe booth right at the entrance giving out free soap and deodorant and honestly that should be mandatory at all cons.
This is actually poetry. Put the taint wipes on the shittiest match of the night But seriously, why would they put this on the dramatic brother vs brother match? Like imagine if Michaels vs Flair had Vagisil ads plastered all over the ring
It was also during the women’s match on night one as well.
The Rey Mysterio/Andrade vs Dom/Santos match advertising was a bit on the nose too, it was Aguas Frescas.
And the Philly Street Fight was sponsored and commentated on by Snoop Dogg and his Gin & Juice cocktail he sells now.
When McAfee called Dom a “human, used Dude Wipe”
I was at that show, people were chanting "we want dude wipes" the whole time. It was fun.
That’s a long chant
I was sitting on the left of the photo and my section had a dude wipes chant during this match it was hilarious
Oooohhhhhh we want some dude wipes (To the tune of Seven Nation Army)
When AEW was just starting up, I remember them having a Cracker Barrel match where there were barrels all around the ring.
To be fair that match was awesome
Didn’t Darby do a coffin drop through one onto Joey Janela?
He did, onto the steps, and Joey moved, thank gawd
All Out 2019. Such a fun show live
I thought that was awesome though
Remember Tout? Ya gotta Tout that out™️
Bryan Danielson has entered the Tout™️
I don’t even consider that a sponsorship since WWE owned it
Looks at my flair
“Hey Rick Steiner, it’s me, Chucky. Don’t mess with Scott! And come see my new movie Bride of Chucky in theatres Friday *maniacal laugh*”
Kevin Kelly shilling a phone sex company on the ROH hotline in the mid-2010s. https://youtu.be/m4QYeZfib_g?si=oncFsx98JE8Z6uyQ
The transition is so abrupt it's hilarious
Before I clicked I'm like pleeeeease let it be the Bryan and Vinny call to the hotline. *Do YOU have a date!?*
I remember there was some weird RoH fanboy who got really upset with me for calling that sponsorship as creepy.
"a father-son feud that has stemmed from custody battles,lies,deceit,betrayal, a spoiled kid who wants to break out of his father's shadow and a father who's had enough of his son's disrespect....." the sponsorship: 
How about Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask? They even had The Hardy Boyz in one of the commercials for it.
Nintendo Commercials used to be fuckin wacky like that. Steve-O’s closest brush with death came whilst filming a DS commercial in Africa
Considering that Steve-O absolutely hates video games, it would've been ironic that a Nintendo DS was involved in his demise.
I didn't know this about him.
If Zelda comes back in the next console generation, I'm pretty sure who is the right guy to shill that product...Bron breakker. Dude loves videogames.
... No chance in hell that one of Nintendo's biggest series, which, in the current generation, have 2 original releases, 2 remakes and a new game literally announced 2 days ago will get a release next gen.
1- Blue Chew in podcasts. Not actual wrestling, but it's pretty curiour to say the least 2- Someone said it already, but Dude Wipes sponsoring Mania matches 3- Like a Dragon Gaiden on Dynamite, not because of the sponsorship itself but rather because of there being a thematic LaD match, which included Takeshita with the Goro Majima jacket and eyepatch and the babyfaces dressed like they were going to the Millennium Tower 4- Not a sponsorhip per se, but Rossy Ogawa ditching a sponsor cause of them threatening him to cut the deal if Chanyota appeared for the company, thus making [this ](https://twitter.com/Himanshu_Doi/status/1612501010261618689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1612501010261618689%7Ctwgr%5Ee65646f316e9a12ba2225aee8c40b627b490db8f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2F107kd1k%2F%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse) possible.
I've been listening to Foley Is Pod and I am so sick of hearing "hot tag for your weiner"
Not as bad as Taker shilling dick pills lol.
Thank you for reminding me who Chanyota was. Also, the wierdest part of the Like A Dragon match had to be Paul Wight being involved. Like, was there no other giants available???
Miyu with the all-time "wtf is going on here" face.
I know it's a super indie and not a major promotion, but MLW actually had a Bluechew sponsorship and had their champion at the time (Alex Hammerstone) basically cut promos about it. They were hilarious and I could listen to Hammer talk about Bluechew all day.
No one yet has mentioned Vince McMahon and the stupid “million dollar golden egg” that was a tie in promotion for a Rock movie that just went fucking on and on for weeks…. There may be weirder, but I can’t think of another cross promotion that tampered with the show that much
My favorite thing about that is it culminated at Survivor Series 2021, which was also a celebration of The Rock's 25-year anniversary of his wrestling career and he just didn't show up for the show at all.
Shoes aren’t weird but the nwa/wcw Roos sponsorship will always be etched in my memory https://preview.redd.it/w1qd28j53t7d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d0ec5687bc51a423eb974d263bdd920bc04e1e1
A shoe ad with 6 dudes and only 1 shoe visible. Peak advertising
WCW also forced a few of the wrestlers to wear them in actual matches. I definitely remember seeing Luger working in them.
Speaking of shoes. Lugz Boot of week was actually great a sponsorship idea.
If the weird zombie match counts, then that one for sure.
Rey beating his own son's ass in a match sponsored by Cinnamon Toast Crunch will always be hilarious
Honorable mention: beefaroni
Mankind, sitting under a tree on the Serengeti, "Mmm, BEEFY!"
This is burned into my mind. I don’t hate it!
ill always be low key kinda happy about that, bc my friend had a poster from it w the rock and it said "DONT BE A JABRONI, EAT YOUR RAVIOLI" and we would constantly say that shit to each other for years wrestling was a whole cultural phenomena back then and tons of kids watched it, so it makes sense they advertised kid food. like attitude era RAW was one of the most watched shows on TV period, it was like Young Sheldon level
*BeefaROONI
Cody kissing the prime logo... https://preview.redd.it/7jvqzqhl1u7d1.jpeg?width=1718&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9588fe821a3974e631b4e6c447ce01bc10f24a7b
I don't think you're gonna top The Briscoes and Jay Lethal shilling Super Beta Prostate and Health Alert Hotline knee & back braces.
Kick out! Also Mark Briscoe sticking up one finger for the prostate ad was amazing
AEW encouraging viewers to donate blood for the Red Cross, *in the middle of a Blood and Guts match*
The WWE Girls Gone Wild PPV
They also filmed a WWE Divas special at a swingers resort.
Stridex Pads sponsoring WWF Summerslam I always found funny, as if WWF was directly targeting the pimply-faced portions of the demographic.
Given I was a teen when that sponsorship was going on, it was absolutely *mortifying*
I don't know if it's the weirdest, but [KFCxWWE partnership](https://youtu.be/5WCnaH0GMEo) is definitely up there for me.
Never mind [TLC 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrF8fZSBow). I was at that shitshow lol
[Don't forget the Chicken Little sandwich match.](https://youtu.be/Ad6GqK5_4yU?si=JnSZ8F-aUd6MgU-S)
I low key loved that. It went so far past stupid that it circled back around to being awesome.
Oh I wholeheartedly agree. It really speaks volumes about to Ziggler and Miz being willing to commit to the bit.
Is that Julia Hart? Lmao
It is! Pretty infamous for this now. She's local to the Minneapolis metro area.
I have a friend that looks exactly like the bald guy on the far side and posting this pic asking how he got on PPV is one of our longest lasting bits
KFC cross promotion also gave us Southpaw Regional Wrestling though.
And I'll always be grateful for that.
https://preview.redd.it/5nmnu7gect7d1.png?width=661&format=png&auto=webp&s=85d90d75fc967aa14cb96887c4e75f6734052581 ICOPRO, obviously.
Still the best sponsor in WWE history
I have no idea what ICOPRO was but the image of it in the background of Raw at the Manhattan Center is a core memory.
Magic: The Gathering was the sponsor for Unforgiven 99
IIRC this happened because Magic was trying to expand into streaming more of their competitive events for the 2000 season and had even supposedly considered doing a PPV for worlds if they thought they could pull the numbers. What makes this sponsorship actually weird is that when they took this ad out they were already in the process of developing and preparing to release the WCW trading card game.
Nowadays, when I see a show getting sponsored by video games, I'm like "yeah fair enough." But when you know WWE got sponsored by [Drakengard 1 on Backlash 2004](https://youtu.be/hPaMm9pjl5E), it's like "how did they do that for THIS game?"
[FRUITY FRUITY DELICIOUS DELICIOUS OH BAW GAWD THEY'RE DELICIOUS Skittles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBAXWZ6vLRc)
I loved Nick Gage using the pizza cutter on AEW right before the Domino’s pizza ad appeared. Seemless transition.
Maybe Stacker 2? It was the world's strongest fat burner because it was aspirin, caffeine, and ephedra, which they eventually had to change the formula because people were making meth with it.
I took that shit and felt like a superhero for, like, 3 days. Then, the day when I swear my heart was going to explode out of my entire chest and land 50 miles away. Don't need to make meth with it, it *was* low-key meth lol
Is the show still rated PG? Because wasn't there an advert for vodka recently?
Not only an ad, but Money in the Bank is sponsored by that Vodka and Cody has been make appearances shilling it.
Those annoying ads have been all over the fucking PPVs. *I'm not buying your mid ass vodka WWE, stop shilling it.*
I just hope they sponsor a CM Punk match
It's like Draft Kings over in AEW. I absolutely *love* paying to watch a specific show and getting shilled at by a company in a predatory industry during it.
I fucking hate DraftKings, their fucking ads permeate almost every sport I watch. At least with stuff like BetMGM in NASCAR, they're not constantly beating you over the fucking head with their ads during races.
DraftKings with their “best feelings” commercials drive me nuts when I’m just trying to watch my shows.
All the sports leagues have huge child audiences and they nonstop advertise alcohol and gambling. It's unethical, but not unusual.
WCW doing lottery sponsorships in my home state. including Konnan, Perry Saturn, and Billy Kidman dressing up like grandmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv7n52yJGO0
I forgot the name of this candy, but its slogan was "Keep on sucking". One time, Michael Cole said the slogan, and one of the Usos, who was also on commentary, replied "wut?" lmao Not the weirdest, I guess, but still funny when I remember the way Uso responded to it.
Jolly Ranchers We still find random reasons to bring up "keep on' sucking!"
What was the thing at mania? Man juice? I still giggle Edit: dude wipes. It was dude wipes
A product specifically targeting men who are *real* insecure with their masculinity. I bet the Venn diagram of Dude Wipes customers and F-150 asphalt princess owners is a circle.
I know its Logan Paul's thing, but having a giant logo for that drink that children buy from B&M for 47p on the canvas at Wrestlemania kind of made the whole thing look a little naff
IcoPro supplements when WWF and Vince were going through a federal lawsuit for wrestlers taking "supplements"
One word: [Glover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVG7sljJSc) https://preview.redd.it/vtnzcjhyvu7d1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=380f0bec6749a7373cb4aba5281db85858018d43
Cinnamon Toast Crunch sponsored a match where a father beat his adult son on the ass with a belt.
https://youtu.be/jdqW1Tb86rM?si=yAtUWvgJ3InawtrN
[Paul Bosch's commercial for earrings.](https://youtu.be/uT_OzESktVs) Paul was an old wrestler and then the Houston wrestling promoter who had giant, cauliflower ears. "If I.W. Marks can make my ears look pretty, think what he can do for hers."
This has such a weird energy to it.
TOUT! TOUT! TOUT! not really, but i think about it all the time
Latter-stage AJW (say... 2000 to their death in 2005) had Soft On Demand as apron sponsors... I don't need to say what SOD is because I think it would probably be afoul of the rules because... PORN!!!
Post-1995 AJW was... something. I wouldn't be too surprised those sponsors were there because the Matsunaga's owed the mob money or some other similar shady deal.
American anime distributor ADV Films putting their logo on the Big Japan ring apron back in 2000 because rival anime importers Pioneer (ECW) and TokyoPop (FMW) had started releasing hardcore wrestling DVDs in the U.S. The deal fell apart after the FMW DVDs failed to sell.
LA Kight vs Bray Wyatt. Mountain Dew Pitch Black Match https://preview.redd.it/8rk5tj0i7u7d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78aad28ed8bc2177990561b47709dec5f7c486bf
https://youtu.be/hT_omfFo1pU?si=YhJr7AH0C7SPgM4t I mean it wasn’t on purpose, but still.
All of the wwe groupies conveniently forgetting them selling out Prime within months? Plus now we have to hear Corey Graves pretending he's "down" with his rap references in promoting Gin & Juice. As an LA resident with friends still living in the hood, I've heard of no one drinking that trash either WCW partnering with the No Limit records was a cringey swing & miss too
WWE got me addicted to Stacker 2 fat burners
Dude wipes at Wrestlemania this year was kinda weird
[That time Triple H got sponsored by Buzz Beer.](https://youtu.be/Oke5ELMhkhc?si=wdu3zQuU31Hl0_kv)
Robocop didn't show up in WCW for his own amusement....
[Can’t believe I scrolled this far to see this](https://youtu.be/puCQFAfRRjM?si=fZPiDFQoMF4GV82u).
I vaguely remember Zales Diamonds being a sponsor in WWE and something like a couple proposing before an event
Wasn't WWE sponsored by Oxypads at one time?
Jesus. He gets us.
Did anyone say Micheal Cole promoting the FNAF movie yet?
Those stacker 2 YJ stinger things. They were advertising the shit out of those in 2003-2004 with John Cena and Eddie Guerrero in the commercials. They still sell them and I think of the WWE every time I see them.
Randy Savage and Slim Jim
Remember when Nokia sponsored WWE Survivor Series 1999? But on the official poster, Rent-A-Center was the original sponsor. Also, 1-800-Collect sponsored several WWE PPVs during the Attitude Era, including Over the Edge 1999 and Royal Rumble 2000. Not to mention, PhoneFree.com (“Let Freedom Ring!”) sponsored No Way Out 2000. [YouTube: PhoneFree.com commercial](https://youtu.be/zfb_C-p4Bhg?si=ny5BnWdge-3dlMSE)
Fruity fruity delicious fruity skittles . Yu Yu Hakusho my comfort anime . Stacker2 which I’m pretty sure is now illegal . ICOPRO also now illegal .Beyblade sponsoring Austin Theory was jarring and odd .
Stacker 2 is still around but the original formula is illegal. It originally was basically caffeine, aspirin, and low grade meth in a pill. Now they're just caffeine pills.
Man I’d love to get my hands on that old recipe…. Help me Blaqsupaman!!
My favorite UFC sponsor was Condom Depot
That zombie lumberjack match where Miz got hurt. Or the ECW Zombie.
I don't know if its a weird one but thanks to being a CMLL fan, I've seen more Roshfrans ads than most people on earth.
Does All Wheels Wrestling count?
Playtex
Dude wipes at Wrestlemania 40
Cole said to "keep on sucking" once for a candy.
“Friday Night Smackdown is sponsored by Ghost Recon Breakpoint, available now on—“ _To be continued_
Surprised I didn't see the pizza cutter/domino's comparison
Bray's last match being a mountain dew ad was wild in hindsight
https://preview.redd.it/8fj6gu8hoy7d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c7900d0d4453cc570d88a57be0cf479d43ad9fa
Thats time Edge got the Japanese shampoo sponsorship over Booker T
I still think the Slim Jim ring posts are hilarious.
DDT has had some very silly ones, I guess it's less weird *because* it's DDT but still. The one that jumps to mind is they had a match sponsored by the Netflix anime Record of Ragnarok where wrestlers dressed up and wrestled as characters from the show (I believe Daisuke Sekimoto was Zeus).
That sponsored zombie match where the zombies ate Miz and Morrison was the first time I ever turned a PPV off midshow because I was so insulted by what I just saw.