PHOTOS & POSTERS
Welcome to my collection of officially licensed wrestling promotional photos. This archive includes both scans of items I currently own and reference screenshots of photos I'm still looking to track down.
📌 Photos I own are watermarked for identification and should not be used, reposted, or altered without credit or written permission.
📌 Photos I'm searching for are marked with a “Looking to Buy” graphic.
If you have one of the photos I’m looking for and are open to selling, if something in missing or incorrect, or if I failed to provide proper credit for using an image, please get in touch!
PHOTOS
Promotional 8x10s
Before social media and digital press kits, promo photos—sometimes called “flats”—were the lifeblood of visual publicity. Studios, wrestling companies, and bands would send out 8x10 glossy prints to newspapers, magazines, and event promoters. These photos were often black-and-white, signed, and carefully staged to capture a performer’s persona.
In the 1980s and ‘90s, promo photos became a collector's item in their own right. Wrestling fans would collect them at arenas, buy them through wrestling magazines, or receive them in the mail with fan club memberships. They were sold at merch tables, inserted into programs, and even taped to bedroom walls like rock band posters.
Today, promo photos are most often provided free-of-charge at official meet-and-greets for attendees who don't have a personal item to get signed.
Fakes, especially of the WWE promo photos, are unfortunately abundant and nearly impossible to identify from photos alone. With the exception of event-specific photos (Daniel Bryan iPlay America from 2015), WWE and AEW promos are printed on a light card stock, not glossy photo paper. The backs are completely white, with no markings.
This gallery is my curated archive of Bryan Danielson promo photos—some official, some indie, and a few incredibly rare.
Promotional 7x11s
PhotoFile 8x10s
Other 8x10s
Unlicensed 8x10s
