[1996-08-19-WWF-Raw] Shawn Michaels commercial

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[shoe]

Very Memphis in the beefcake dept of the music video. Also the "Fuck" music was a nice touch.

[Loss]

Shoe said it all. Lots of close-ups of Shawn shirtless while softcore porn-sounding music plays. This should really go on the never-going-to-happen Wrestling Is Gay comp.

[goodhelmet]

I made a wrestling is gay comp for a friend once.

[El-P]

Hope you put the 4 Horsemen of Gayness on it (refering to the awesome video of Jim Powers, Renegade, Joe Gomez and Alex Wright in 1996).

[Tim Evans]

This is a lot like the Jeff Jarrett commercial from the early 90's. Funny as hell.

[BackToBionic]

A friend of mine had that jacket at the time. And he was a male.

[Zenjo]

I was just about to ask if anyone knew someone who actually bought that jacket.

 

At least around this time there was early Goldust to outdo HBK in the flamboyance department.

[PeteF3]

Heartbreak: By Calvin Klein.

[soup23]

That jacket is ridiculously gaudy and expensive and the commercial was atrocious. Shawn's in ring character of showing how tough he is isn't really matching these vignettes.

[Exposer]

Not sure if I found the right commercial (watching via WWE Network & didn't find it while watching this particular episode). I searched on YT & did find a cheesy Shawn video from 96 with porn music though. Hard to take Shawn seriously as a tough, fighting champion sometimes with this stuff.

[tim]

Easy to see why the over the top lovefest turned a lot of people off of Shawn over time during this reign. I love how one of Vince's favorite adjectives to talk up Shawn is "flamboyant."