THE TEAM
Josh.
Brings home the wrestling pieces.
Josh leads the wrestling and sports memorabilia work at Keep It Classic. The WWF, WWE, NJPW, AEW, ECW, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NCAA inventory across the shop floor is sharp because there is somebody in the room whose obsession runs that deep. A vintage shop can carry wrestling pieces; only a shop with a wrestling person can carry the right wrestling pieces. Josh is that person at Keep It Classic.
What Josh does
The wrestling and sports side of the catalog is the loudest single category on the shop floor. Vintage WWF tees from the Hulkamania era, Attitude Era figures still sealed in original blister packs, Saturday Night's Main Event posters, signed 8x10s with verified provenance, NFL satin Starter jackets, Champion-knit basketball jerseys, and the ongoing rotation of one-of-one tour merch from regional promotions all flow through Josh's eye first. The authentication call on a signed piece, the era-attribution call on a tee, and the buy-or-pass call on a piece that walked in the door at the back of the shop are his calls. When the shop sets up at WrestleCon weekend in Las Vegas, the booth runs through Josh's hands. The pieces that make the trip, the layout of the booth, and most of the on-site conversations with collectors and signing guests are his lane.
A specific story
More from Josh soon. The conversations that happen on the wrestling wall on a Friday night at the shop are the ones worth writing up; we will let Josh tell those stories in his own words.
What to look at
What Josh would point you at right now: the WWF collection and the WWE collection. The vendor hubs that organize the wrestling inventory by promotion are where the depth is most visible, and they update every week.