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My favourite guilty pleasure is a song that the wwe have in their back pocket for when entrance music doesn't seem to matter. It finally became Linda Mcmahon's music. Pretty sure it was Ken shamrock's at least once at first and was often used as a background to various highlight packages. The most generic of music that sticks in my head way too often.

 

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3 hours ago, Cheapheat said:

My favourite guilty pleasure is a song that the wwe have in their back pocket for when entrance music doesn't seem to matter. It finally became Linda Mcmahon's music. Pretty sure it was Ken shamrock's at least once at first and was often used as a background to various highlight packages. The most generic of music that sticks in my head way too often.



 

That's the "WrestleMania" theme without lyrics from one of the WWF's attempt at producing a music album in the '90's(although with the lyric stripped out). I remember buying it on cassette and nearly wearing it out on my Walkman...

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4 hours ago, Cheapheat said:

Pretty sure it was Ken shamrock's at least once at first and was often used as a background to various highlight packages.

 

 

16 minutes ago, Cod Eye said:

That's the "WrestleMania" theme without lyrics from one of the WWF's attempt at producing a music album in the '90's(although with the lyric stripped out).

Yes. It was used as the music for Mania from 10 to, I believe, 15. The highlight packages were Mania highlight packages and the reason you think Shamrock had it was because it's playing as he's introduced as the guest ref for Bret vs Austin at Mania 13.

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1. Your favourite entrance/entrance music of all time and why it's your favourite. 

Randy Savage. It's called Pomp and Circumstance for a reason (though we obviously know it differently). The music is just magnificent with a built-in dramatic build before it explodes into life. Savage was the ideal recipient of it with his incredible vibrancy. The music and the colours combined scream like fireworks. It's as near perfect as wrestling ever gets.

2. Current favourite wrestling entrance. 

Take on board what @King Pitcos said earlier but it's still Bray Wyatt. The music is superb and the crowd really make it. Like KO, Bray should be a mega-babyface. The only thing that drags it down is Michael Cole's monotone could be pre-recorded for a video game commentary every fucking time.

3. Take one of today's WWE/NXT (other promotions also available) entrances and make it better. You could change up the music, the presentation, their mannerisms as they come down to the ring, etc.

Roman Reigns. He's the top dog. He should have an entrance music (real music) that befits. Something like a mix of Lose Yourself by Eminem would be huge. It's a pity they wasted that scratchy thing on Ziggles too becausea heel Reigns having his music cut, while he stands there holding the title aloft mouthing "This is my yard now" while the crowd boo the shit out of him would be wonderful.

4. Favourite guilty pleasure entrance music. 

I'm gonna say Demolition. Because while it's utterly brilliant entrance music for that era of the WWF, it's still pretty embarrassing.

5. Worst entrance/entrance music of all-time. 

Why were WCW entrances, barring a couple of notable examples, so fucking shit? The music particularly was dreadful. I'm just watching the second Nitro of November 1999 (fuck you again @Liam O'Rourke!) and it starts with the most shitty, generic music ever created. I couldn't have guessed whose it was with 1000 guesses. Anyway, out comes Sid to cut a god awful screamy promo and dredge out the Outsiders who, unbelievably, are still way over in this shit arse of a promotion. Anyone who thinks modern WWE is bad doesn't know they're born.

6. How you'd make your own entrance if you were debuting in a promotion of your choosing in terms of how you'd come down to the ring and what banger you'd have playing in the background.

I'd be a Goldust type character who comes out to "I am what I am". i think you could have all sorts of fun with that shit, especially these days when the bigots and racists are in their element.

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I used to like Shamrock's entrance music. Seemed to fit him to a tee.

I've always thought it would be good if someone who was known for legitimate combat sports(Matt Riddle for example) came to the ring with a full entourage, like they do in boxing/UFC etc. Make it into a part of the character that said wrestler has a manager, promoter, head trainer, a corner man. Could even go a step further and have more specialist coaches with him(striking, matt wrestling etc...) and each week write into his/her match that he/she has been working on a specific discipline and uses it in the match.  Would certainly make the wrestler look legitimate and "big time"...

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1 hour ago, Cod Eye said:

I used to like Shamrock's entrance music. Seemed to fit him to a tee.

I've always thought it would be good if someone who was known for legitimate combat sports(Matt Riddle for example) came to the ring with a full entourage, like they do in boxing/UFC etc. Make it into a part of the character that said wrestler has a manager, promoter, head trainer, a corner man. Could even go a step further and have more specialist coaches with him(striking, matt wrestling etc...) and each week write into his/her match that he/she has been working on a specific discipline and uses it in the match.  Would certainly make the wrestler look legitimate and "big time"...

Cody and Nick Aldis coming out with, “camps,” like that at All In was an absolute revelation. Added so much to the moment. I’d be stunned if Hunter didn’t watch that with plans to nick it for a big Takeover entrance.

Ever since that video package at Wrestlemania 27 I’ve wished that The Miz had changed his music to, “Hate Me Now,” by Nas. I’m willing to forgive them though if they’re saving it for when Roman turns heel. 

There’s an alternative dimension out there where Heyman turned on Brock at Summerslam, then the next night Heyman and Roman came out to that song. Imagine it.

 

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Oh so we're dancing, are we?

https://youtu.be/VcdkFiaI5CE

Best - Sid. No one had captured his straight up mentalness before. Then JJ penned this beauty. Top marks to the WCW team too, for pioneering the silence gimmick that Ciampa would use so well 20 years later.

Honorable mentions - Christian operatic pomposity, D'Lo, Test's nonsense ("get it up, bung a tyre, burn a coop, bring it! Get it up, yo, give your a dad a gnome!"

Smark mention - X Factor, obvs. 

Worst - Not a particular theme, but I always found anything with lyrics to be kind of lazy, like they couldn't find anything musical to get the guy over so they'll just tell you about him. So you can lump Batista, any of Billy Gunn's, and Trip's Motorhead stuff. My Time was better (yes, I know that had lyrics but... but... shut up).

New - NXT are actually blinding for doing really great characterful entrances using smoke, lighting and camerawork. See Ricochet, Bray, and the Ascension. But for a rejig, it's time to break out Rey's pneumatic trapdoor for our man King Ric, for him to explode into the air, forward back-somersault into his superhero landing and up into his current light in the palm of his hand pose.

Extra- Bollocks to H&S and bring back the old Diesel/Stone Cold fake glass. Rig it up, project a charging steamroller or two swinging wrecking balls into it and SMASH! Here come Heavy Machinery!

My bad self - Day of Reckoning on the Gamecube had a pretty cool create an entrance function - way over-engineered with setting of camera angles and about a dozen spots for taunting and crap descriptions so you'd have to cycle through them to find out what they actually were - but had a couple of accidentally brilliant glitches. So, fire off the Dudleyz' missile pyro into the entrance way, and if you didn't set a stage taunt and timed the entrance right, you'd get tons of lag and slow motion while you walked through a hundred explosions like a total bad ass. So yeah. That.

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On ‎9‎/‎18‎/‎2018 at 6:13 PM, Cod Eye said:

I've always thought it would be good if someone who was known for legitimate combat sports(Matt Riddle for example) came to the ring with a full entourage, like they do in boxing/UFC etc. Make it into a part of the character that said wrestler has a manager, promoter, head trainer, a corner man. Could even go a step further and have more specialist coaches with him(striking, matt wrestling etc...) and each week write into his/her match that he/she has been working on a specific discipline and uses it in the match.  Would certainly make the wrestler look legitimate and "big time"...

I think Tom Lawlor's been doing this on the indies

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1) Best ever theme

Jive Soul Bro - Twin Towers. 

It’s the best theme ever written, it shouldn’t have worked for a tag team consisting of a black wheeler n dealer manager, a large dirty copper and a large white traditional African. But it did work, perfectly.

2) Best Current theme

Samoa Joe - No fucking about. Dope as fuck hip hop beat. He’s coming to butcher someone. Does it for me.

3) Make it better

Nakamura - It was perfect, then they’ve spoiled it with that stupid plugging in of guitars and that completely shits on it. If there’s an angle, and he appears from the back, you want that immediate drop and to feel the “oh shit, it’s about to go down”... much like the violin crescendo does, not a bellend fancying about with a jack input on a guitar for 5-6 seconds. Completely sucks the life out of the tune. And there’s too much rapping. A bit, fair enough, but it’s overboard and they’ve ruined an already very good theme.

4) Guilty Pleasure

Beverly Brothers - pure erotic night down the WMC.

5) Shit music 

IRS theme on Super Wrestlemania on the Mega Drive. It would drive me fucking crackers as a kid. I hate it and always will... 

 

6) My Debut Entrance:

Music would be Agent X, from the WWF Attitude game, and my Titan Tron would flash up with different foods and condiments, in time with the music. 

Sometimes my music and tron video would kick in, striking fear in to the hearts of whoever was currently cutting a promo in the ring. But instead of me coming out, I’d psych them out instead, and an array of hot dogs would be under arm bowled down the aisle. There would be a pile of approx 17 hotdogs at the foot of the ramp, before one final hotdog would bounce off Sin Caras spring board and land in my opponents breast pocket. Then the music would cut off.

I’ve mentioned this before but wasn’t taken seriously.

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In fairness to Nakamura's theme, it's a rare example of them actually trying to deliver on a heel turn by stopping the fans from dictating who they root for - introducing the rapping and extra guitar bits was done to stop the fans singing along, so it serves a purpose.

Anyway, the best entrance ever is Onita at the Tokyo Dome;

 

 

No one in wrestling has ever looked cooler than Onita taking his sweet time to get to the ring, pausing to smoke a tab, while the entire crowd absolutely hates him and everything he stands for.

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On 9/14/2018 at 10:51 AM, Scott Malbranque said:

1. Your favourite entrance/entrance music of all time and why it's your favourite. 

My favourite entrance and entrance theme of all time belong to Sid. The music, still to this day, makes the eyebrows furrow and every hair on my body go on end. I knew it was all fake, but when Sid came out, I believed again.

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Personally I thought that the "Sid Justice" theme and character was 10x better tbh.

 

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My favourite is that amazing instrumental the Hollywood Blondes had, which I think Austin got custody of following the break-up.  It also ended up being used by Marty Jannetty and Blitzkrieg in later years. I unlocked it on WWE 2K16 and immediately used it as my own entrance music.

My guilty pleasure theme song is probably that one by Waterproof Blonde that Sean O'Haire had in WWE. It sounded in no way like it should have been entrance music because it  had  about 40 seconds of weird noises and false starts at the beginning, and  even when it "gets going" it never really gets going

 

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