I saw someone yesterday post on this subreddit and I really wanted to join in cause I have great stories that go along with the merchandise.
For the GOD signed picture, hikuleo stopped during his entrance before winning the strong titles back to sign my picture and after the match elp walked up to me, grabbed my shoulders, turned me around, bent my back over and grabbed the picture and sharpie and used my back as a wall to sign the picture as well. You can faintly see his signature over his chest and face.
The feathers are from tanahashi, his coat she’d like hell when he got in the ring so the ring assistant grabbed a bunch of his feathers and tossed them out and I asked if I could keep some so he gave a few to me.
They were giving away Okada bucks with merch purchases so I thought it was cool.
The ospreay photo is a great story and the reason I will forever be one of ospreays biggest fans. I’ve been watching him since he was in RevPro and I was 12, back in mid 2021 when he was recovering from his neck injury I bought an autograph from one of his links. They shipped it and it came absolutely destroyed. I sent the company an email asking for a replacement copy because I was 16 and had no money for a new one. Will ospreay himself reached out to me, said “they package my merch like shit. Don’t worry I’ll go to the post and send you a new one on Monday”. He actually did this and I have the postal package with his verification signature to prove it.
The last one is when I meet Kenta, I made this piece of art to get signed and he said it looked better than he did. He was super sweet and really down to earth. He had taken a photo with my mom years prior and she said “I have no idea who you are but my son says he loves watching you”, he thought it was funny and said “let’s send a photo to your son” and he took a photo with her. Overall a really great guy.
by Accomplished-Tree177