Talk is Jericho Recap w/ Ryan Barkin – Creating Pro Wrestling Tees, Unheard Stories of Young Bucks & Steve Austin, Who’s Their Best Seller? More!

He considers Steve Austin to be their biggest name, but their biggest sellers are The Young Bucks. He informs that he wrote Jim Ross and told Ross that he should sell merchandise. After winning Ross over, he was introduced to Steve Austin and Austin called him personally. He sent some shirt ideas to Austin on cheap materials and Austin didn’t like it at all.
He begged Austin to give him another chance and sent him much higher quality shirts the next time around. Jericho points out that Austin is a fan of quality and always designed his own shirts. Barkin says he’s sent Austin some design ideas but Austin never likes them. Austin still plays a huge role in designing all of his shirts.
Jericho asks Barkin if he has ever run into legal troubles due to certain shirt designs. Barkin informs that he’s received Cease and Desist letters from various companies such as Jack Daniels for a Candice LeRae shirt, LEGO for a Johnny Gargano shirt, and McDonalds as well. When he receives those letters he quickly removes the shirts and discontinues their sales because the legal risk isn’t worth it for him.

Jericho thinks it’s great that every wrestler has an opportunity to sell shirts nowadays. If you have 10,000 social media followers or more you can set up a store on ProWrestlingTees.com for free. If you don’t meet those requirements there’s a $75 fee.
Jericho recalls asking Eric Bischoff for a shirt during his WCW days, and Bischoff said you don’t make money from shirts. Jericho wasn’t worried about making money; it was all about perception for him. He pointed out that if people saw Hogan and DDP shirts everywhere but didn’t see Jericho shirts, he’d be perceived as “less than” those other competitors.