10 WWE Superstars Who Tried Their Hand At A Music Career

There's something about wearing tights and beating up on people in front of a roaring crowd that makes you feel invincible. After all, if you deliver a perfect and precise flying elbow drop from the top turnbuckle or fall twenty feet through a table and get right back up, then truly nothing is impossible! Except making really good music, apparently. Because the skills learned in the ring apparently don't magically translate to the recording studio. WHO KNEW? As long as wrestlers keep trying to branch out from the industry that made them famous and expand their personal brand by any means necessary, then we'll never have to worry about living in a world where wrestling superstars don't make cringeworthy albums. Although, as you'll read below, not all of these attempts are terrible. In fact, you might even like a few of them, if you're into that sort of thing. Note: I've made the executive decision not to include Hulk Hogan's "rock" album, Hulk Rules, because just like Vince McMahon recently decided to wipe the Hulkster out of the history books, it's really in everyone's best interest that we wipe that album from history, too. Also, people talk too much about Hulk Rules. There are other terrible wrestlers-turned-musicians out there, you know.

10. "Macho Man" Randy Savage

Ya know what, if any old, white semi-retired professional wrestler could have a career resurgence as a gravelly-throated rapper, it would be Randy Savage. Unfortunately, on his ill-advised 2003 album Be A Man, the Macho King sounds like he found a bunch of MC Hammer's rejected song ideas while dumpster diving and didn't have the good sense to burn them in his fireplace. Things start off pretty rocky from the get-go with Savage's misguided ambition, stating that he'd be "the first wrestling emcee", and that will be his legacy. Really, Randy? That's what you want as your claim to fame? Not being a 2-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion and WWE Hall of Famer? You'd rather people remember you for lyrics like "I knew all along you had those tendencies/Cuz you've been runnin' from Macho like I got a disease" than for your legendary matches with Ricky Steamboat? Sure, a big part of hip-hop is boasting. Chicks, money, bling, etc. But "Macho Man" Randy Savage was the best bragger in the wrestling industry, so it's weird that he sounds so utterly out of his element here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm13KqeR8eY