Earlier this year I got my hands on an WCW merchandise catalog from the early 90’s. (not alllll of 2020 has been horrible). I decided, the best thing to do with it, would be to scan it and share it with you fine folks (and so the pics can be taken and shared by a million instagram accounts within the next year) (kind of like what I do with other people’s scans and pics) (but to be fair I try to credit when I can).

ANYWAY, this one is a gem so lets look at the few pages of glory and see what we want!

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Lex Lugar showing the guns, lots of neon colors, this is the early 90’s kids. Those satin jackets are pretty cool, nothing like wearing the image of a roided up glistening beefcake on your back every day. The pink scorpion is billed as a “Stink Friction Toy” which makes me think you pull it back and it jolts forward? It’s only 2 bucks? I’d love to have that had and the hot pink Sting crew neck sweatshirt, but the most interesting thing on this page is the toy title belts.

It’s a CHAMPIONSHIP PAL, not a title belt! Goddamn pal.

When I first looked at this merch catalog, it made me ponder a “chicken and the egg” situation. Which came first, the WWF’s or the WCW’s. These cheap foam and plastic belts makes me think WCW is playing catchup to the Titan Sports Empire. This doesn’t mean they are not glorious! I want them both NOW! My first toy belt was the hasbro WWF winged eagle title that was plastic with a vinyl belt threaded through it. The worst part of that belt was they made you put the belt decal on the plastic part yourself, and being impatient as I am, I decided to do it myself and totally fucked it up.

it may look like the sticker is on, but in the bottom right hand of the box it says “some assembly required” which means you’re on your own for the fucking sticker

It wasn’t until a magical house show at Allentown’s Ag Hall they my dad finally bought me the WWF version of the belt, which I freaking loved! I had a WCW belt, but not the one above… We’ll get to that later.

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So this has a bunch of Luger stuff, but forget that, you know what we all like here.

THAT HOT PINK STING HAT!!! It’s gorgeous! I LOVE IT! I’m half tempted to make my next hat run a replica of that exact hat! The shirts are cool the cup is cool but those sunglasses are ALSO AMAZING! So much hot pink, so much sting! Hit me up if you think I should make Sting hats!

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This page has Steiner Brothers stuff BORING, Tom Zenk Poster LAME, Big Josh, PM News crap, Flying Brian Pillman junk and another Sting shirt, but we’re not here for that!

Ignore the artist future to be known as Golddust, we’re here for MICHAEL….PS….MOTHERFUCKING…HAYES. DOOOT DOOOT DOOT YA’LL! Look at his stare in that picture of the Freebirds! And that hair, that Vincent K McMahon would soon make him cut. BUT that is not the best piece of freebirds merch on this page, so lets look at what is!

While that Badstreet USA t-shirt is amazing, it’s not that. It’s the Michael Hayes Audio Cassette for ONLY 10 BUCKS! KNAAAAAVVVEEESS!!!!!!!! This is worth the price of admission tonight guys!

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This has a few things I’d like to talk about, first the action figures from Galoob!

Confession time people. Pre-Hulk Hogan, I wasn’t really into WCW at all. I was aware of it, but not into it. I did however buy the figures because they each came with belts! I used them mainly as jobbers save for Sting, who was Sting but in WWF. Old school blonde Sting was the fucking man.

Then there are the trading cards, not the gold box on the left that I’ve never seen before in my life, but the purple box on the left which are so goddamn prolific I think they were sent to every suburban household like sample of tide. I’d buy them by the box from KB Toys for a buck fifty a pop, because they were only a buck fifty for a whole FUCKING BOX!!!!

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This wasn’t a page, it was on the backside of the catalog, from he “WCW Magazine”. I know you’re all laughing right now, but it did exist. Look at that gun, the fucking FAKE CASH!!! THE CRAYON BY NUMBER!!! THE KNOCK OFF WRESTLING BUDDIES!!!!!! But that’s not what I’m talking about! I’m talking about the best quality kids wrestling belt of the 90’s! The Galoob WCW belt with the kid playing Sting complete with a bleach blonde flat top and I’m assuming rat tail. It was plastic with a nylon strap and it was AMAZING. I got it for 5 bucks on clearance at Bradlees when I was a kid and I loved it, it WAS MY CHAMPIONSHIP PAL!

Thanks for reading my nonsense about a crappy old wrestling merch catalog! SUMMER VACATION 2020 CONTINUES TOMORROW,(Join us tomorrow (6/24/2020 on our Youtube Page at noon eastern for our Everything Back to the Future podcast LIVE) but in the meantime, comment on things you owned or want form the catalog in the comments below!