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Vintage pro wrestling shirts, VHS tapes, jerseys, action figures, hats, programs, posters and promo gear from the Rock-N-Wrestling boom through the Attitude Era and the Monday Night Wars. 277 wrestling pieces live on the floor right now, most of them WWF pre-2002 and WCW from the nWo run, with ECW, AEW and the occasional NJPW or WCCW piece mixed in. Every item is one of one. When it sells, it is gone.

What era this catalog covers

The deep end of this collection runs 1989 to 2002. That window is the span Ray grew up inside and the window most of our walk-in regulars came up on: Hulkamania still selling out arenas at the start, the Hogan-Flair crossover, the 1993 Bret-Shawn era, the WWF New Generation run with Razor Ramon and Diesel, the jump to the scratch-logo Attitude Era in late 1997, the nWo takeover on WCW Monday Nitro, the Stone Cold and Rock peak, and the brand split that closed with the silent F and the WWE rename in May 2002. Everything on these shelves slots somewhere on that timeline.

Key brands and companies in the mix: Titan Sports and World Wrestling Federation (pre-2002 three-letter era, front and back), World Championship Wrestling (Turner-owned 1988 through 2001), Extreme Championship Wrestling (1992 through 2001), Coliseum Home Video (WWF's VHS label from 1985 through the Titan Home Video transition in 1997), Warner Home Video and Turner Home Entertainment (WCW's tape imprints), Hasbro (WWF figures 1990 to 1994), Jakks Pacific (WWF/WWE figures 1996 onward), Galoob (WCW figures), Mattel (modern WWE Retro and Elite lines), Nike and Reebok on the later NXT and 2015-plus shirt runs, and Fanimation / Chalk Line on the early-90s satin jacket and poster side. AEW shows up in the modern display; ROH and Impact make cameos.

Cultural markers worth knowing: the WWF switched from the block logo to the scratch logo in late 1997, which dates the tee era cleanly. Hasbro figures stopped in 1994, so any WWF Hasbro you see was sold into a retail window of about four years. The nWo shirts with the spray-paint logo began in July 1996 (Hogan heel turn at Bash at the Beach) and ran hard through 1999. Coliseum Home Video's clamshell packaging switched to slimline retail cases for most 1997-onward releases, and the label was folded into Titan Home Video and then WWE Home Video after the F was dropped. We treat those dates as anchors when we write the PDP era line.

How to tell a real vintage wrestling piece from a reprint

Wrestling bootlegs are a real category. Modern boot shirts printed on new blanks are fine and disclosed as such on the PDP. What you want to watch for is when a boot is sold as a 1990s original. A few anchor signals we use on the floor:

• Tag and blank. Pre-2002 WWF tees usually ride on a Hanes Heavyweight, Fruit of the Loom Best, Oneita or Tultex tag with a bolt-on WWF or Titan Sports license line. WCW licenses sat on similar tags. A modern Gildan Softstyle with a 2010s-forward neck label is a reprint, full stop, no matter what the graphic says.
• Print method. Original plastisol screens from the era crack and split after 30 years of wash cycles. A graphic that looks perfect and feels soft-hand on a heavy cotton blank is almost always a reissue.
• Copyright line. Real WWF tees carry a license line near the hem or inside the neck: © YEAR Titan Sports, Inc. or © YEAR World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. If the © year predates the show that the shirt references, it is printed wrong. If the © says WWE Inc. on a shirt marketed as 1996, that is a post-2002 reprint.
• Coliseum Video vs. WWE re-release. Original Coliseum Home Video tapes from 1985 to 1997 sit in a black plastic clamshell with a hinged spine, run at SP mode, and carry a Coliseum label on the spine. Post-1997 Titan and post-2002 WWE re-releases sit in slimline retail cases with different catalog numbers. A Royal Rumble tape in a slim case is not an original Coliseum issue.
• Hasbro figures. Real Hasbros have a 1990 through 1994 date stamp molded into the back of the figure, usually near the waistband. If the date stamp reads 2005 or later, it is a Retro reissue, which is a real product but not a vintage Hasbro.

We write these signals into the PDP for every wrestling piece we list. If you want the full breakdown of any one category, the Coliseum Home Video vs WWE re-release guide and the WCW and Attitude Era tee authentication guide go deeper.

How KIC sources and grades wrestling

We pick this category on the floor first and online second. Most of the case comes out of Midwest and Southeast estate sales, fan-collection buyouts we drive to in person, WrestleCon floor pickups when the circus comes to Vegas, and the occasional wrestler-adjacent connection that Ray has kept warm over twelve-plus years in the space. Ray is the wrestling lead in the shop. He reads the tags, checks the license line, and plays every tape we list on the one VCR we keep in back for exactly this reason.

Shirts are measured pit-to-pit and top-to-bottom laid flat, not tagged by nominal size, because a 1995 XL runs different from a 2025 XL. VHS tapes are marked SEALED only if the factory shrink is intact and the security sticker has not been lifted. Figures are sold in the state they arrive: loose with all original accessories if we have them, loose without if we do not, or carded if the blister is intact. Condition is called on a six-tier scale described on the condition guide.

Inventory depth and typical price bands

277 active wrestling pieces in the case as of this week. Rough shape of the catalog:

• Loose modern figures (Elite, Retro, Ultimate Edition): typical $20 to $50.
• Vintage Hasbros and Jakks Ruthless Aggression figures: typical $25 to $80, higher on the clean carded pieces.
• Wrestling tees (modern boots through true vintage): $25 to $150, with the 1996-1998 Attitude Era survivors pushing the top of the band.
• Coliseum and WWF VHS tapes: $5 to $50. Sealed Royal Rumbles, SummerSlams and the early Coliseum exclusives carry the top of the band.
• Programs, magazines, posters and promo: $10 to $60.
• Jerseys and satin jackets on the wrestling rack: $50 to $200.

New pieces hit the floor every week, with a larger intake anchored around WrestleCon and the week after any major Vegas wrestling event.

Start with these pieces

• Vintage Stone Cold Steve Austin chain hat: late-90s promo headwear, Attitude Era.
• WWE Fueled By Fury three-figure set: Jericho, Undertaker, Flair.
• WWF Chris Jericho Break The Walls Down VHS (sealed): factory-sealed Coliseum-era release.
• Mattel WWE Retro Sensational Queen Sherri: Hasbro-style retro sculpt.
• WWE Backlash Series 12 Randy Orton figure: Ruthless Aggression era.

Pair this collection with the vintage t-shirts case for non-wrestling tees from the same era, the VHS case for horror and genre tapes from the same Coliseum distribution window, the WCW sub-case, and the wrestling tees under $60 rack for a starter-price path in. If you are in Las Vegas for WrestleCon week, we run a booth at the Horseshoe and the rest of the year the rack lives at the shop inside Container Park on East Fremont. Pull up.