Like any sport, pro wrestling has its share of celebrity athletes. And similar any celebrity athlete, pro wrestling stars can't resist a lucrative endorsement deal. One of the most famous examples is Macho Man Randy Savage'due south representing Slim Jims in the 1990s, a partnership that proved to exist iconic and memorable for Vicious's commitment of the tagline, "Snap into a Slim Jim!"

But not every product endorsement can be equally iconic equally Manlike's human relationship with beefiness jerky sticks. There have been a number of surprising wrestler endorsements over the years. Non all of these were bad -- and fans might even remember some of them -- but they're pretty weird.

x Brock Lesnar - Jimmy John's

Brock Lesnar - Jimmy John's

Outside of pro wrestling, slapping a logo on a racing car or legitimate fighter isn't all that uncommon. But when wrestler turned MMA fighter Brock Lesnar returned to WWE in 2012, fans were quick to notice that Brock'south shorts were sporting a recognizable double-J logo -- not for Jeff Jarrett, just rather for sandwich concatenation Jimmy John's.

Considering everything in wrestling -- especially in WWE -- is so deliberately engineered to elicit a certain response from fans, seeing a monster heel similar Lesnar repping for sandwiches is incredibly funny.

9 Hulk Hogan - Microwaveable Burgers

Hulk Hogan - Microwaveable Burgers

Fans may already know about Hulk Hogan'southward various product endorsement ventures like Pastamania, an free energy drinkable, or even the several kitchen appliances bearing his name thanks to the Hulkster infamously turning down the George Foreman Grill deal. Less famous, however, were his line of microwaveable hamburgers. Bachelor exclusively at Wal-Mart, audacious eaters had a handful of options when it came to the Hulkster Burger, including a cheeseburger and a chicken sandwich. If online food reviews are to be believed, they were non well received.

8 John Cena - Fruity Pebbles

John Cena - Fruity Pebbles

During his 2011-2012 feud with John Cena, The Rock took shots at Cena's history of colorful T-shirts, saying that the face of modernistic WWE was similar a box of Fruity Pebbles. Information technology was a pretty weak, juvenile joke, but ended up condign a real thing, as John Cena institute himself emblazoned on cereal boxes next to Fred Flintstone and Bamm Bamm.

It's very surprising that WWE leaned into the insult, but you tin't error them when in that location's money to be made. Information technology'southward a shame that Rocky couldn't make lighting strike twice when he called CM Punk "cookiepuss."

7 Bret Hart - Beer

As far equally wrestler endorsements go, beer seems like an untapped (heh) market, because the ascent popularity of craft beer in the 21st century. Stone Cold Steve Austin notably has an IPA out from El Segundo, but it may surprise fans to know that his neat rival Bret "The Hitman" Hart has his own beer besides.

Given everything fans know about Bret Hart, it should come every bit no surprise that the citrus hibiscus ale Hitman came straight out of Calgary'southward Hamlet Brewing.

vi Jeff Jarrett - Gold Investments

Jeff Jarrett Global Force Gold

After leaving TNA in 2014, Jeff Jarrett tried to offset a new promotion, Global Force Wrestling, which didn't quite pan out -- even as he tried to merge information technology with his one-time company. But at the aforementioned time, Jarrett also rolled out Global Force Gilded, which was basically a way to promote Karatbars, a German gold investment visitor defendant of running a Ponzi scheme. Fans tend to slap Double J with the "carny" label quite oft, and enticing fans to have part in a "greenbacks for gold" scam in exchange for a signed 8x10 certainly doesn't help.

5 NJPW LA Dojo Young Lions - Gekiochi Cloth

NJPW LA Dojo Young Lions - Gekiochi Cloth

Fans keeping upwardly with New Japan Pro-Wrestling's US-based show New Nippon Strong take seen these silly ads pretty much every week. NJPW's LA Dojo students -- Clark Connors, Alex Coughlin, and Karl Fredericks -- take shot a couple of ads selling Gekiochi Material, "a magic material that can make clean without soap."

While the company behind the cloth, LEC, has put Japanese NJPW stars on its domestic packaging, the company has enlisted NJPW'south up-and-coming Los Angeles trainees to sell the product to Western fans.

four Mean Gene Okerlund - Mean Factor's Burgers

Mean Gene's Burgers

1 of the greatest backstage interviewers of all time, Mean Cistron Okerlund also got into the production endorsement game. A family unit affair, Okerlund'southward nephews started upwards a restaurant business, and the legendary Mean Cistron was willing to offer upward his name and likeness to create Mean Gene's Burgers, which concluded up becoming a chain.

The chain was successful, too, and ended up spawning related pizzerias called -- you guessed it -- Mean Gene's Pizza.

3 KangaRoos - Sting

Sting's ad for Roos

Established in 1979, KangaRoos is a American brand of footwear famous for having a small pocket on the side and having a kangaroo silhouette as their logo. Despite being a brief fad in the early on to mid-1980s, the make never totally went away and even got Sting to endorse them in 1990. Information technology made perfect sense -- Sting's a surfer guy, Australia has surfer vibes -- and made for a pretty fun, goofy commercial loaded with oddball 1990s nostalgia.

two Toru Yano - Curry

Toru Yano - Curry

It should come as no surprise to fans of New Japan that Toru Yano -- the Chaos faction's resident DVD shilling cheat -- really has real-life production endorsements going on outside of the ring. In 2020, Yano and NJPW struck a deal with visitor Kitano Ace to put out a line of boil-in-a-bag curry with YTR'south confront emblazoned on the package. The set-upward is pretty much the same -- it's a hamburger patty in sauce -- but the sauce flavors include mild tomato curry, Japanese curry, and demon killer black curry (!).

1 Steve Austin - ane-800-COLLECT

D-Lo Brown and Steve Austin - 1-800-COLLECT

Television receiver advertising in the late 1990s and early 2000s was awash with commercials for various collect call companies, with 1-800-COLLECT being the virtually famous. These ads featured all kinds of pop civilisation figures, so it should come up as no surprise that at least one wrestler showed up in them.

In this case, it was Steve Austin, albeit with a bonus wrestler. Subsequently all, every wrestler needs an opponent, and so Stone Cold's trip the light fantastic partner for the ad was the underrated D-Lo Brown as the "Texas Rattlesnake" berated Brown mid-match for dialing nil to brand a collect telephone call instead of the number in question. The advertising concluded with Austin saying "Dial 1-800-Collect… or else."

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