VIA Reddit: My mother is a muralist, so every wall in my childhood home was being painted and re-painted all the time. My brother and I shared a room and got to pick what we wanted and we came up with the idea of a wrestling room, so my mother painted every wall to make it look like the room was the middle of the ring inside a packed arena. I thought I'd share it for those who would appreciate it!
This first photo is of the stage and the TitanTron, with what's supposed to be The Rock's entrance video playing. You can sort of tell when it was painted based on the stage and the logos!
Here is another angle of that wall, so you can get an idea of the crowd and the corners, turnbuckles, and ring ropes going around the walls of the room. The Rock is standing in his classic entrance pose on the second rope. You can kind of tell here that the ceiling is painted as well, the room was already lit with some kind of track lighting which already sort of fit the theme, and then my mother painted a a big circular light-structure thing going around the actual lighting.
You can also see some of the crowd signs -- they are painted in on all four walls and represent a bunch of other wrestlers that we wanted to feature but obviously couldn't all be in the ring. Also gives you an idea of the era and who we liked.
Last thing to note on this photo (and there are some closeups in a minute) is down in the front row you can see Me, my brother, my sister and my father (so the 4 people you won't recognize) sitting there holding up signs, and I am sitting next to Mick Foley and the Hurricane (two of my all time favorites along with The Rock, who's corner we are in)
Another shot of the stage. You could find lots of little details all over the room.
The opposite side of the ring, the Rock's nemesis of the early 2000s Triple H. You can see some more signs in the crowd and some more of the cool arena lighting painted in. in the background is the greatest announce team of all time, Good Ol' JR and Jerry The King Lawler! If i remember right, this was actually painted while Heyman was announcing, but I told my mom I didn't like Heyman (I was young and naive) and I wanted The King instead! Luckily he is featured in his robes and not one of his terrible shirts.
The opposite side of the ring, the Rock's nemesis of the early 2000s Triple H. You can see some more signs in the crowd and some more of the cool arena lighting painted in. in the background is the greatest announce team of all time, Good Ol' JR and Jerry The King Lawler! If i remember right, this was actually painted while Heyman was announcing, but I told my mom I didn't like Heyman (I was young and naive) and I wanted The King instead! Luckily he is featured in his robes and not one of his terrible shirts.
Here's a closer photo of middle school me with my Foley sign, sitting with my favorite guys, Foley (who looks like flannel Jesus) and The Hurricane!
Another one of them. Hurricane was not around when the painting was originally done, my mom actually added him in later after he debuted because I was such a huge Hurricane fan. I had all his shirts, toys, everything. I had the mask and cape and dressed up as Hurricane when my parents took us to WrestleMania XIX!
There were more than 4 walls in the room (there was like a little window area, whatever those things are called, so the mural went around the main four walls, and then we had posters and collages that we made and hung near the window, so we had collages and posters of some of our other favorite wrestlers (Jericho, Kurt Angle, Undertaker, Lita, Edge and Christian, Hurricane) and all the photos from when we went to WrestleMania XIX
Last one for now, my sister holding up what she thought was just the most clever sign in the world, and you can see the detail down to the logos on the turnbuckle covers!
Also yes, wrestling wasn't the ONLY thing we were into as kids. That is absolutely the Pokemon Squirtle sitting down there next to my sister. You can't see it, but he is holding a Japanese flag because he is a Kai-En-Tai fan! INDEEEEEEED!
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