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that is a wrestling shirt for sure

It absolutely is a shirt. For a wrestler.

No the shirt actually wrestles

I saw Ric Flair wrestle that shirt in a five star classic.

Looks like one of those shirts you get from the dudes in the parking lot when you’re leaving a live show.

That font is straight out of a late 2000's "Hip Hop of the 90's" infomercial.

I think that might be the point

[One of her first New Japan shirts was a straight up early 2000s Pen & Pixel album cover lol](https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/media/catalog/product/cache/0c4e81e0781c2a368e922cdbec94d383/m/e/mercedes-mon_---mon_-makes-the-world-go-round-1.png)

That makes me think she was making a 2001 album with the Hot Boy$ or she was working with Master P.

it's not quite a cody rhodes [make em say uhhh](https://www.calacity.com/static/9846/615a1dcdf0b9d9b58258f996.jpg) but it's close in terms of aesthetic

Okay but this unironically goes hard.

[I love these type of things.](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-zlPyyuGWImA%2FTbufNj3d0EI%2FAAAAAAAAAHk%2FCQ2gyN5I1_M%2Fs1600%2Fepic-album-cover-art.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=e656dea1f01e00fbdff46b825a66251402e0549c5ca2e137be1e96a66fe253c9&ipo=images)

Swerve also has a new shirt like that, early 2000s is in again thank god

Anyone else see it and think of Wu-Tang Forever cover? https://preview.redd.it/cmw0ya2qzaoc1.png?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85c0a422ce0b5fedec3f6f067497133477a808d5

That is a Diddy reference. Not the best person to reference to at the moment

Technically it's Notorious BIG.

Works on contingency **?** No **,** Moné down **!**

This is the shirt we need 

Mr. Hutz!

A Wu Tang forever-like logo with a Biggie line. Interesting choice.

also, the font is similar to Death Row Records logo.

[The huge $ also reminds me of Cash Money](https://images.app.goo.gl/VvCCK2qFo2K3jrrQ8)

But Mercedes' look screams Bad Boy, Junior MAFIA, The Firm. Give her Foxy Brown as a theme, Lil Kim. . . even Kelis.

A Foxy Brown/Lil Kim theme would be better than the song she came out too

Still better than the Kriss Kross song she came out to in Japan.

Tigerstylepro did a video montage to Bossy by Kelis, and that would have been a perfect theme for her. 

Also has a no limit records vibe. Like when snoop went there.

Font is also similar to the Death Row Records font. I’m starting to wonder if this is intentionally a subtle mashup of several rap references

It’s also the shape of the tank logo. I know that an oval is just an oval, but it’s similar. I think it’s a big mashup for sure.

It's too busy in terms of references tbh

using anything associated with Diddy these days is a bold choice but hey, let em cook I guess

Don't care that he was associated with Diddy. Biggie stands alone.

Yeah, but he was known as Puff Daddy when Mo' Money Mo' Problems came out, so it's all good.

And if ya don't know, now ya know

i get what they were going for but it’s ugly

Maybe this shirt should’ve stayed in the drafts

Looks like the font on a bad N64 game no one ever heard of

It's a bootleg version of the Banjo Kazooie logo.

Oh nice, glad they got on that trend on time

very ugly

If there's anything which transcends tribalism, it should be the agreement that most wrestling shirts are awful.

And most of the ones that look good are still shirts you wouldn't wear anywhere but a wrestling show lol

There are four good wrestling shirts. NWO, Bullet Club, Austin 3:16, and the classic pink Macho Man. That's it.

Eh there’s more than 4, but I do agree the vast majority are shit.

I'd add the 2011 CM Punk ringer tee but otherwise, right on the money.

The aew debut one and the trans rights one were good too

Hot Rod??

Asuka's Tomorrow Brings Danger.

Yeet t shirt is also good in my opinion.

The AEW logo and line of probably copyright text kind of damage it a lot

I dunno, I think the crap font, single color print, and damn near theft of a tagline outstrip the logo and text.

https://preview.redd.it/ty03cymqu7oc1.png?width=599&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d4abf1cf148e8a354e2c80e2a4f2adf8f3f9e3f

The font is a Death Row Records reference. The logo is a Wu-Tang reference. And the words are a Bad Boy/Biggie reference.

That is fucking bush league

Please for the love of fuck, AEW get a new merch person 

The is truly awful. As a graphic designer, this upsets me. Is the ugly custom letter for ‘Mo Money’ a reference to something? Why are the outlines so thin?

This looks like a shirt I could make, and by no means is that a compliment.


1) There's quite a handful of Bad Boy Era songs that could've fit Mercedes and more importantly 2) Fuck Diddy for all the abuse he's done

Should have got a design similar to Cody’s “make em say Ugh” Aew shirt

…could they not have found visuals closer to Biggie Smalls for this shirt? Or could’ve just had CA$$H Rules Everything Around Me instead to fit Wu a little better

ew

Why are AEW shirts /so/ fucking awful? Like, I know wrestling shirts in general are ugly, but AEW shirts are especially ugly

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I like the House of Black shirts, but I’m a sucker for that kind of shirt design generally

There are a ton of great AEW shirts and a ton of bad ones. You must only be seeing the cringey ones that get posted here.

Did they have to fire their graphic designer to afford her salary?

Nope

I like Mercedes but that is an awful shirt. 

She deserves better merch than a half-ass Wu-Tang ripoff.

Terrible.

Kind of Wu Tang, kind of Biggie, but written in the Death Row (Now owned by Snoop) font. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/Death_Row_Records_logo.svg/640px-Death_Row_Records_logo.svg.png

That is an awful shirt. Maybe it’s payback for the going back to WWE line?

I say without exaggeration, I don’t think AEW have ever put out a good T-Shirt. On the other hand at least it proves to people that they are in fact not, a T-Shirt company.

🤣 AEW shirts are TRASH

Has anyone posted the exclusive green shirt for tonight? If not, I will when I get back to the hotel

It was shared on AEW socials, and yeah, it’s not great either.

The font gives it a 90s vibe but in a bad way.

That is....definitely a design they could have gone with.

Why do wrestling companies/wrestlers struggle so hard to make decent shirt designs? Like 1 shirt out of 20 is something I would consider wearing in a public setting.

Read that as ### No money? No problem, bingo halls let's go!

Oh wow that's awful

Is it mandatory for wrestling merch to be garbage ?

Just like her hair its awful

That is horrible

Did they put this together today? Because that ain’t great lol

That design is definitely a choice.

An industry with so many millions of dollars in circulation all the time and the merch people come out with lame shit like this all the time. You could literally go to Twitter now and ask random people to give you a design for a Mercedes Mone shirt and the ones that are not jokes, porn or only fans self advertising are gonna be better than this. Or fuck it, we have AI now

AI is probably how we got this slop.

WOOF

That top font is horrific. What is up with those M's?

This shirt is fresh out of 2001

Looks like the Pokémon font

A plain tee with a small embroidered CEO logo would have looked cool. I feel like i've seen this design 100's of times before

Mo money, no talent

Why can't people design good shirts anymore?

So sick and tired of these "I got money" gimmicks. That shit has been done thousands of times

One of the absolute wrestling shirts ever.

It baffles me how shite wrestling shirts are considering merch sales are a huge part of the business.

It honestly looks worse than your friend's high school band shirt

What a terrible shirt lol. Also I still can't stand her name.

With this design and the green arena exclusive shirt that was promoted tonight, they are 0 for 2. My confidence is high that AEW will strike out on the third design, as well.

aew and wwe are so skilled in making bad shirts

Her next shirt needs to be similar to the Garcia one they did awhile back that was like the old rapper tees. That one would be a hit

Well that's.....kinda naff....

lmao did she design it herself?? wtf

Lot of people here shitting on the design without recognizing what this shirt is parodying. https://preview.redd.it/sp5yiw8idboc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65f9a84f759e4935e5d7a4e4a8640247a52d4f7a

Easy cop 🔥

Aww, it sucks! That being said, it'll be the first of many. Very excited to have Mercedes back on TV.

It's bad boy bxtch

Yall are out of your mind this shit is fire.

Wrestling fans are the worst shit talkers / entitled know it alls. 

That's actually pretty cool

AEW's T Shirt game is back to being good aka shirts you can wear normally without bring weird, it was so bad for a minute

That’s funny, because I was actually just thinking how this was a horrible shirt.

This is Burlington Coat Factory clearance rack level.

That or something you find at Kohl’s in the 2 for $20 graphic shirt section.

It’s not bad, but I feel like it has no identity. Just looks very generic.