{"id":78988,"date":"2019-05-01T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=78988"},"modified":"2019-05-01T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:09:16","slug":"collectibles-column-5-count-wrestlers-who-share-terrible-signatures-with-other-famous-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/05\/01\/collectibles-column-5-count-wrestlers-who-share-terrible-signatures-with-other-famous-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"COLLECTIBLES COLUMN 5 COUNT: Wrestlers Who Share Terrible Signatures with Other Famous Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2928280620\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><div class=\"m_5150591226370568862gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>It takes a lot to become a WWE wrestler: Hard work. Dedication. A great look. Charisma. A two-letter signature.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestlers\u2019 autographs have gotten progressively worse over the last two decades. Sure, there\u2019s the occasional Charlotte Flair or Alexa Bliss, a wrestler who takes her or his time on each signature. But for the most part, WWE wrestlers\u2019 signatures have devolved into squiggles or two-letter abbreviations: RR, SR, DA, AC, AB, AE, BE, XW and KO, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Sloppy signatures are hardly unique to pro wrestling. Each year\u2019s draft class in the NFL, MLB and NBA seem to get worse than the previous year. In some cases, it\u2019s hard to tell one person\u2019s terrible autograph from another. Here\u2019s a list of five wrestlers\u2019 signatures that could easily be confused with another pro athlete\u2019s autograph.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Vince McMahon, Velveteen Dream and Vernand Morency. Morency was a third-round draft pick of the Houston Texans in 2005. Back then, he had the consensus worst autograph in sports: a letter \u201cV\u201d or a checkmark, sometimes with a short squiggle next to it. David Lee, then-editor for <em>Beckett Football Monthly<\/em>, watched Morency sign his rookie cards at the 2005 NFL Rookie Premiere. \u201cThis guy was just throwing down checkmarks,\u201d Lee told me at the time. \u201cI thought he was just testing the pens, and then I realized that was his autograph.\u201d Velveteen Dream and Vince McMahon have basically the same autograph, a \u201cV\u201d that sometimes includes a short line or small squiggle. McMahon has been one of the most requested autographs among card collectors for years, and what they got in this year\u2019s Topps WWE Transcendent was hardly worth the wait.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78990 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/1-300x138.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/1-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/1-768x352.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/1.png 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chris Jericho and Cyrus Kouandjio. Aside from each of their first names starting with the letter \u201cC,\u201d Jericho and Kouandjio don\u2019t\u2019 have a whole lot in common. Jericho is a wrestler with a career worthy of a legitimate hall of fame. Kouandjio was a second round pick out of Alabama by the Buffalo Bills in 2014 who made headlines for wandering around a field naked in 2017. And yet their awful signatures are nearly identical. Both autographs basically read \u201cCy,\u201d and Jericho completes his with a loop while Kouandjio trails off with a straight line. Roll tide, maaaan.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78991 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/2-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/2-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/2.png 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dean Ambrose and Roberto Aguayo. There\u2019s a fine line between \u201cDA\u201d and \u201cRA,\u201d and when your autograph is as bad as these two, that fine line can disappear altogether. Collectors scoffed at Ambrose\u2019s first certified \u201cDA\u201d autograph in 2013, and it has somehow only gotten worse with time. Buccaneers fans scoffed when the team drafted Aguayo \u2013 a kicker \u2013 in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft, ahead of players such as Dak Prescott and Jordan Howard.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78992 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/3-216x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/3-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/3.png 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Roman Reigns and Rajon Rondo. Reigns was a pioneer of lazy wrestling autographs. His 2013 Topps Best of WWE autograph was the hottest card in the hobby for a brief period in 2014, despite the sloppy \u201cRR\u201d signature. He\u2019s signed thousands of cards since then, with little variation. Sometimes he adds an extra squiggle or an \u201cX\u201d after the second R, but that\u2019s about it. Ditto for the former Boston Celtics star Rondo. The only real difference between the two is that Reigns signs his signatures with a slightly counterclockwise slant. Many of Ronda Rousey\u2019s more recent autos have also started fading into a sloppy \u201cRR\u201d signature.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78994 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/4-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/4-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/4.png 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Aleister Black and Arrelious Benn. Many collectors were excited for Black\u2019s first autographed trading cards, but were left disappointed by his lazy \u201cAB\u201d signature. It\u2019s nearly identical to the signature of Benn, a 2010 second round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who once went five years in between scoring two touchdowns.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78995 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/5-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/5-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/5.png 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Have you ever noticed similarities in bad signatures between pro wrestlers and other athletes or celebrities? Share your thoughts with PWTorch Collectibles Specialist Michael Moore at <a href=\"mailto:michaelmoorewriter@gmail.com\">michaelmoorewriter@gmail.com<\/a> or @MMooreWriter on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THE PRIOR COLUMN:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/04\/19\/collectibles-column-5-count-the-worst-wrestling-toy-lines\/\">COLLECTIBLES COLUMN 5 COUNT: The Worst Wrestling Toy Lines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Five Count is a new format for the Pro Wrestling Torch\u2019s long-running collectibles column, which began in 2011. PWTorch Collectibles Specialist Michael Moore can be contacted at<a href=\"mailto:michaelmoorewriter@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">michaelmoorewriter@gmail.com<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter @MMooreWriter.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1491024541\"><div id=\"pwtor-3755156244\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It takes a lot to become a WWE wrestler: Hard work. Dedication. A great look. Charisma. A two-letter signature. Wrestlers\u2019 autographs have gotten progressively worse over the last two decades. Sure, there\u2019s the occasional Charlotte <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/05\/01\/collectibles-column-5-count-wrestlers-who-share-terrible-signatures-with-other-famous-athletes\/\" title=\"COLLECTIBLES COLUMN 5 COUNT: Wrestlers Who Share Terrible Signatures with Other Famous Athletes\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,52,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-specialists_collectibles","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/Collectibles_signatures.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78996,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78988\/revisions\/78996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}