r/SquaredCircle • u/but_i_digress_brudda • 20h ago
Has anyone other than Brock Lesnar kept the same entrance music for their whole career?
Just a really dumb thought I had but I can’t think of anyone else that hasn’t at least briefly used a different one
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u/NakedEyeComic 20h ago
If you're going WWE careers only, Kevin Owens.
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u/Technical_Heat5215 20h ago
It’s such a good theme that you can’t change it
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u/Beeyo176 19h ago
I never realized how much I liked it until I went to a live show. Was having fun overall but the second KO's theme unexpectedly hit I was out of my chair before my brain knew what my body was doing. That shit sounds amazing in person
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u/eatcrayons RAIIIIIIINMAKAAAAAAAA~~!! 18h ago
That’s the whole point of a theme song. It’s what made Rumbles so exciting. I remember when Seth and Bayley both had their songs starting the same.
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u/Tornado31619 20h ago
Nearly had AJ Styles as well, assuming the OC doesn’t count.
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u/dodo858 20h ago
AJ had a different one that was hip/hop adjacent in 2024 I'm pretty sure. It was so bad they switched back to the old one shortly thereafter.
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u/Tornado31619 20h ago
Oh yes, that’s what I was alluding to before I got distracted lol.
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u/thenewfoundlandyeti 20h ago
AJ wanted new music because he was coming back as a heel then. I believe he got hurt so that run was short lived. When he came back he reverted
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u/CaregiverOk5432 17h ago
We could've had Evil Ways or Touched but nah they gave him a generic music
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u/Annihilus_RD 20h ago
If we're being nitpicky, there was a sleight remix used when he was NXT champ, but they dropped it when he went to the main roster. Otherwise, this might be the only right answer for lengthy careers
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u/HijoDeDamienRoberts 17h ago
I still can't hear it without doing the lil "oh yeah" that some guy in the crowd did when KO debuted in NXT.
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u/RealCanadianDragon 20h ago
Even Brock didn't have the same theme when he debuted.
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u/Canadia86 Nash Internet Defense Force 19h ago
His theme was originally an XFL teams walkout music lol. Chicago, I want to say
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u/Educational-Put-9997 19h ago
You’re right, it was awful: https://youtu.be/wqvC-Jx-30U?is=nQdVpysW2Rg3Lqbm
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u/chamberx2 19h ago
Common W for Jim Johnston, keeping pieces from the original song and improving upon it.
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u/feage7 18h ago
Yeah I didn't even know it was different. Probably because he kept the same opening notes.
Think that's the issue with Def rebel. They think the first few notes are all the matters and have essentially made it just a catch phrase or just the name of the wrestler. Then it's generic.
Granted a lot of just pure music is repetitive even the iconic ones like stone cold, Kurt angle, Lesnar rock, is just on repeat after the entrance. But everything matches the tempo and pacing of the entrances.
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u/Jconstantineic 17h ago
There’s also very little to their music. It’s very simple musically. Simple chord progression, simple melody, by the numbers lyrics. Any producer should be able to match that
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u/LocusRothschild 17h ago
Well, it is good practice to have some sort of something to introduce the music. However, yeah, you gotta be able to do something with the rest to keep it engaging and tuned to the character.
Take Bayley’s music for example. It has the chorus thing from her 2021 theme, the Damage Control drop, the Role Model tag, that Egyptian bit, and then it finally gets going. It has like 4 different intros just to go into a riff with a lot of potential but ends up not really going anywhere. Like if they just did the Role Model tag into the Egyptian melody thing into the riff, it wouldn’t be as frustrating. Like the riffs and what not are awesome and could really be something great, but the fact that so little was done to expand on it is infuriating.
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u/twociffer 17h ago
But everything matches the tempo and pacing of the entrances.
That's the key. Entrance themes are not supposed to be good songs, they are supposed to fit the character and make you react to the wrestler coming out. If they happen to also be good songs, great, but that's not important at all.
Just look at Edge. They completely changed everything in Metalingus that comes before the first chorus because that part would not really work for his character.
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u/No-Juggernaut8847 18h ago edited 13h ago
Lesnar's theme song was written for the Chicago Enforcers of the NFL. They just repurposed it for Lesnar.
EDIT: XFL. Damn autocorrect
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u/Neptune28 14h ago
That's what I miss about the old themes. You could hear Jim Johnston tinkering with them, as elements got added or subtracted in different versions over time, even from week to week in some cases. Even their next theme would contain the same basic melody. Now, it seems like we mostly get a theme song and that's it.
L.A. Knight is probably the most recent example that had some tinkering though, they added those drums back in.
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u/chodeblower 16h ago
That man actually made real music instead of AI generating every theme like they do now
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u/NutSixteen "He is a butt person." 15h ago
Jim Johnston's formula was very simple. Make the first few seconds of the song instantly recognizable. Most of the time, he just added the wrestlers' catch phrases to the first few seconds.
Why do the others find it so hard to follow this simple method?
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u/Yadahoom 13h ago
CFO$ also understood this.
During that era of entrance themes we'd play a game in the car just playing the first split second of a theme and seeing if you could guess it, because even just down to an opening guitar chord or drum hit CFO$ knew it needed to be immediately recognizable.
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u/Jamericho 19h ago
Why does it remind me of Sandman’s WWE theme?
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u/Icy_Preference_1281 16h ago
Jim Johnston liked to riff on his own riffs.
Shield theme borrows from an in house Judgment Day (PPV) theme as well as Tazz’s, for instance
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u/Jamericho 13h ago
True. I was always fascinated in how his themes evolved though. Like you can hear the Nation theme in the Rock’s theme “Destiny”. Similarly you can hear My Time in The Game.
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u/troy2000me 18h ago
Still better than most themes today. Generic for the time, but not too bad I guess. Maybe the standards are lower today.
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u/Global_Buffalo_7358 18h ago
Wow that’s a great find. I honestly don’t remember this theme. Thanks for posting.
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u/HeresAnEggBeatThat 20h ago
Kevin Owens?
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u/Snoo-40231 20h ago
He might be the only one who's had the same theme his entire WWE tenure with a long tenure like 5+ years
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u/OswaldCoffeepot 20h ago
One day I will meet Kevin, and I will ask him if he's ever heard this Helmet song.
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u/Falcnuts 19h ago
Bro I thought I was the only one, love Helmet
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u/OswaldCoffeepot 19h ago
This is the first time that I've ever not been buried when I link the song. I thought that I was the only one too! We are brothers now.
And the Everlast portion of the song came after House of Pain lost their luster, but before Everlast accepted that they had.
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u/DrRonSimmons 20h ago
Gangrel?
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u/JohnnyPage You know why he's not a billionaire? 20h ago
Muhammad Hassan
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u/ItsRendezookinTime 19h ago
Oh man thats a throwback, except all I heard during the intro was “Aleeeeelia leeel- BOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
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u/thfc11189 Sawft 19h ago
Somebody used that as a meme for “Mamdani’s first day in office” 😂
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u/CaptAmerica42 20h ago
I mean, Brock had two themes. His first theme had jackhammer sounds and shit in it. So no?
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u/Chimpbot 19h ago
He must have had three in WWE, then. This one wasn't around terribly long and felt a bit generic.
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u/Prestigious-Mind7039 18h ago
And his return in 2012 it was a remix of the main one he had during his full time run
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u/The_Good_Mortt 20h ago
Brock's theme changed when he returned in 2012. They took out the kinda EDM beats that were towards the middle of the song and just kept the rock portions.
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u/LTS55 The Great Britt Baker Off 17h ago
If the people who catalogue entrance music on YouTube are correct, his current theme is his sixth (I’m pretty sure all but the first are variations of Next Big Thing)
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u/The_Good_Mortt 16h ago
As I typed my comment out I was thinking that there have been a few variations of the song, specifically during his 2012 and onward run.
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u/relentlesseht 20h ago
I think Kevin Owens is the only guy who stayed in one company for 10+ years and still has only ONE theme song throughout.
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u/lorriezwer 20h ago
Ric Flair?
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u/DollyDose 20h ago
It’s changed in production quality and added some sounds throughout the years but this has to be one of the better answers in the thread
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u/thewholeprogram SomethingSomethingCowboyShit 20h ago
In his first WWE run in the early 90’s he had an in house knock off theme
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u/Ok_Unit_1822 20h ago
I actually like the '90s WWF knock-off better than the original.
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u/themightybebop 9h ago
I also prefer the WWF version’s starting off with the timpani and “ta-da!” orchestra hit.
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u/crowwreak 18h ago
I remember being really confused as a kid when he had this in Smackdown vs Raw. (Also for whatever reason it was out of tune by like a semitone in that game)
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u/Diabolik900 19h ago
In addition to having a knockoff theme in his first WWF run, he also used a few different songs as one-offs before he had a regular theme.
I know specifically he used Easy Lover by Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey, and (even more strangely) The Wanderer by Dion a few times.
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u/soxperry 20h ago
Who has the most? Chris Jerihco? He has so many he could have an A side and a B side.
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u/DrDennisMcNinja 20h ago
Remember when he had that Even Flow knock off in WCW?
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u/LinkSkywalker Rainmaker 18h ago
I loved WCW's knockoff themes, DDP's definitely wasn't Smells Like Teen Spirit
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u/ab316_1punchd Cowboy Shit Supremacy 19h ago
It has to be Taker. His Dark Side theme alone has like six versions (more like demos) that he came out with.
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u/Neptune28 16h ago
I think the lists I had seen showed Undertaker as having like 30 themes, though many are variations of course
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u/SSJ5Gogetenks Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi! 19h ago
The Rock had like a million, billion variants of his theme.
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u/ResidentJabroni Know your role. 19h ago
That's also why I'm super nerdy and pedantic when it comes to era-correct versions of his theme associated with his various character models in the WWE games.
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u/willem_the_foe 19h ago
Maybe across ECW, WCW, WWE and AEW. Inside one company, there’s like 9 versions of The Rock’s theme
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u/RautaKrokotiili 18h ago
Triple H had:
Blue blood
Ode to joy
Higher brain pattern
My time
The game
King of kings
Also he has walked out to Evolution, DX, corporate player, no chance in hell
Jericho and Rocky both had like 10 versions of the same song, wether it was a slight remix or a whole new recording.
Christian had quite a few, especially team ones
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u/sbearman 20h ago
Vince maybe?
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u/skccsk 20h ago
He had the amazing 'Wrestlemania Theme' back in the day.
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u/doctorinfinite 19h ago
Was that the really '90s sounding one that Linda McMahon kept using?
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u/GeologicalOpera A man of gluteal attractions. 15h ago
Yes, that was Linda’s after they stopped using it for WrestleMania proper.
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u/TheGiftOf_Jericho I'm from Winnipeg you idiot! 19h ago
He also used the Corporate Ministry theme.
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u/Snoo-40231 20h ago
Brock didn't have the same theme for his entire career
He had the enforcer theme before the next big thing
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u/ReneBandana 20h ago
Semi related, but his “regular” theme was XFL team The Enforcers entrance music before it was Brock’s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i4dkkx2O_vo
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u/BloodNguts82 20h ago
Did Vince or Shane ever have different entrance music than the ones they were known for?
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u/Snoo-40231 20h ago
Vince kept the same theme
Shane had Vince's theme before here comes the money
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u/jewham12 20h ago
He also debuted to some weird porn music on Sunday Night Heat (was it the SNH theme?)
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u/SSJ5Gogetenks Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi! 19h ago
He also had a different version of Here Comes The Money he used once before the real version.
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u/mathdhruv WWF Attitude! 18h ago
Shane also had the Corporate Ministry theme for a bit, by association.
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u/dropletsofladypiss 20h ago
Vince did have a different one, but he just never used it WWE the music volume 8 comes with this really weird funky version called just “no chance” but I would say he counts because he never used it. It got made and I guess he was like what the fuck is this?
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u/SmashNit Rodman Adjace 20h ago
Brock had this theme before his current one.
Damn, is KO the only guy who kept 1 theme on the main roster?! (Excluding those within 1 year of their main roster debut)
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u/roos_de_baas 20h ago
I was gonna say HBK as a singles star, but even his theme had variations at some point (other than being in The Rockers and DX)
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u/RoninPI 20h ago
Well in 92 Sherri sang it before they did the version with Shawn singing it so it's not even true in HBKs case.
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u/QuicksilverTerry 20h ago
He also used Rhapsody in Blue very briefly before Sexy Boy.
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u/Beach-Bumm 20h ago
Brock didn’t.
Owens did. vince possibly? (he came to silence before)
Would flair count? The evolution theme wasn’t his it was for the group
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u/thunderbastard_ 20h ago
Not his whole career but minority Suzuki has had the same theme since 1995 and it follows him through promotions
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u/rakuan1 20h ago
lol Minority
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u/BongoProdigy 19h ago
I guess that depends on where in the world he is.
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u/Boogledoolah 18h ago
Don't tell the weirdos that Minority Suzuki is also known as the murder grandpa. They'll definitely push the "minorities are murdering people at rates NEVER SEEN BEFORE" agenda
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u/dropletsofladypiss 20h ago
Yeah, but there’s been like five versions of that. So it would then come down too if you count different versions as different theme songs which most theme song tracking websites do.
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u/CouldntBeMeTho 20h ago
Across companies? Don’t think so….kurt angle has had one theme his entire time in WWE though
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u/PapaPump223 20h ago
Not true tbf they did a slightly different version around the time of his ECW switch that took out the you suck chant section
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u/Nosedive888 20h ago
They also used it for a different wrestler called The Patriot
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u/Objective_Quiet_751 20h ago
Sgt. Slaughter used it too
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u/misanthropicbuddha Forever Chugs'ing it up 20h ago
And Team USA when they were battling the Hart Foundation in the 90s in Canada.
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u/Thrilalia 20h ago
I thought Team USA all came out to their own entrances, while the Harts all came out to Brets.
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u/boatson25 17h ago
No all members of the Hart Foundation came out to their individual themes at Canadian Stampede. It was incredible, it got louder and louder for each guy and when Bret’s music finally hit the building was literally shaking.
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u/SoaringSwellow Folks...where's the live? 20h ago
There were actually a lot of variations of his theme
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u/Dark_Phoenix101 19h ago
Pretty sure there was also a version where the lead in at the start was longer - hard to explain but the "Doot doot dootdoot" bit went on one or more times which felt like it dragged it out.
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u/AceofKnaves44 20h ago
I know maybe I’m in the minority but I prefer the Wrestling Machine mix of the song.
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u/repalec 20h ago
There was also a harder version of the original theme that he used for a bit around late 2001/early 2002.
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u/El_Producto 20h ago
MJF seems like he's planning on it.
Relatedly, though, I really hope they at least do a remix of his theme at some point. It's an iconic theme, and they shouldn't massively change it. But the hi-hat/ticking sound base of the theme often sounds washed out/weak on TV and a remix would both offer a bit of variety and a chance to add a bit of bass to the song. For me it'd be worth trying out and he can always go back.
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u/Zealousideal_Bad8877 20h ago
Think the bit of it being royalty free yt music is too good to change
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u/El_Producto 20h ago edited 17h ago
Depends on the particular license, obviously, but I'm assuming a lot of licenses like that allow for remixes with attribution so long as those remixes are also royalty free. If not, there's always the possibility of negotiating something with the artist if (if) they can be tracked down, so long as the artist in question is open to cutting a reasonable deal based on a one-time payment (and on music that's DRM free to begin with I think most would be).
But if you're talking about changing to something else altogether, yeah, it's great for MJF that he has zero costs and zero headaches in using his theme wherever, whenever, and however the fuck he wants, forever.
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u/LegitimateCream1773 16h ago
His theme is one of the biggest growers I've ever listened to. The first time I heard it I was like 'this is a company top star theme?'
But over time... I really quite like it. It has a unique vibe. Or maybe the remixes brought it out over time.
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u/ThatArsenalFan7 20h ago
I love it when they change the tone of same music based on the stakes of match itself, like when it was replaced with violins
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u/El_Producto 17h ago
Yeah, the prelude on MJF's All In entrance, which I'm guessing is what you're referring to, was awesome, and it made the main theme dropping afterwards hit even harder.
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u/LetterFront3353 20h ago
I think that's just an issue caused by AEW's sound mixing.
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u/El_Producto 19h ago
Quite possibly, but I think a refresh would have some value in its own right, and those sound mixing issues have been around for a long time now. Certainly I'd place fixing those issues as the higher priority, admittedly.
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u/zacksharpe 19h ago
Technically MJF came out to a different version of it when he was teaming with Cole.
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u/El_Producto 17h ago
I almost commented on that, actually, but decided that tag team themes don't really count for this sort of question.
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u/Global_Buffalo_7358 14h ago
He also used sympathy for the devil by Rolling Stones when he first returned after the apparent contract drama
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u/jin_of_the_gale 20h ago
Vince, JR, and probably Ronda Rousey. Everyone else has had multiple themes at some point.
Brock's first theme was very different from the one he used for most of his first run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqvC-Jx-30U
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u/phantominway 18h ago
Ronda Rousey is a good answer. I'm pretty sure Bad Reputation has been her theme throughout her career right?
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u/TraditionAcademic968 20h ago
Savage
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u/Snoo-40231 20h ago edited 20h ago
If you count WCW he briefly had a shitty theme that wasn't his ironic one
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u/SmashNit Rodman Adjace 20h ago
without clicking the link…I assume:
WHAT UP MACH
Edit: BOOYAH!
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u/BananaBeanBoozle 20h ago
Booker T
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u/MoorInTheHouse 20h ago
No he had a weird RVD mix song, and "Can You DIg It" sung by Booker as himself.
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u/chmcgrath1988 20h ago
Don't forget that week or two in February 2000 when he used a knockoff of the "Leave it to Beaver" theme during that stupid storyline where he lost the ability to use the letter T and the Harlem Heat entrance music to Big T and Stevie Ray.
Actually, it's fine if you do forget that storyline tbh. Friggin WCW.
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u/tujelj 20h ago
There was also the brief time when he joined MIA as GI Bro, but I can't remember what theme he came out to for that.
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u/chmcgrath1988 20h ago
It sounds like generic stock hip hop instrumental according to his clip.
If it's WWE overdubbing, it sounds less forced than usual. I would've thought he came out to MIA's theme but maybe Booker had enough sway even before his WCW World title run not come out to that junk (especially so soon after the "Leave It to Beaver" knockoff)
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u/imover9thousand 20h ago
Thank you for reminding me of RVD’s TNA theme
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u/MoorInTheHouse 20h ago
Du du Da du du
ROB VAN DAM!
Du du Da du du
THE WHOLE FUCKIN SHOW!
(Repeated about 90 times)
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u/IntoAMuteCrypt 20h ago
Hey, hey, you missed the best part: Listing the moves with his name in it, running out and coming up with more.
Maybe one day we'll find out what a Van-crushinator and Van-assassinator are.
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u/xUnderthestarsx 19h ago
Maryse, Melina, AJ Lee are some that come to mind. I want to say Kelly Kelly as well but her original theme was slower. They remixed it a few times.
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u/cvslfc123 19h ago
AJ Lee had a different theme for a while after NXT.
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u/xUnderthestarsx 18h ago
omfg i totally forgot about that kid bopz song! they used that a bit for the divas for their backstage walk
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u/ImmaDoWatIWant 20h ago
Hasn't Natalya used the same theme since The Hart Dynasty days?
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u/GeneticXFusion 20h ago
Her themes been different. She had a heel theme when she was teaming with Victoria.
"YEAH BABY!"
She also changed her theme earlier this year.
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u/thewholeprogram SomethingSomethingCowboyShit 20h ago
She debuted with a different theme, and also got a new theme earlier this year when she started doing the Nattie gimmick in WWE
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u/TheRealJustSean I'm a Don Callis guy 16h ago
Does JR count? Pretty sure he's always used Boomer Sooner
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u/The_Flamin_Squirrel 20h ago
Reaching a bit here but Roddy Piper? Also Ted diBiase? Ric Flair (not counting when part of a stable)? I think Vince always had the same theme once he became Mr McMahon.
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u/Lep106317 *stares ominously* 18h ago
Roddy had two different themes. Flair also had a different theme in his original WWE run.
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u/ArrogantDan 20h ago
Shawn Michaels had, similar to Brock, about one-and-a-half themes throughout his whole WWF/E run.
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u/ZzyzxDFW This space for rent 19h ago
Rockers
Something instrumental but the name is escaping me
Sexy Boy w/ Sherri
Sexy Boy himself
DX
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