10 Worst WWE Entrance Music Downgrades

10. Goldberg

Few entrances in wrestling are as classic as Goldberg’s. An aura was quickly built around the former NFL defensive tackle when he debuted for WCW in 1997, with his theme (‘Invasion’), contributing as much to this as the endless destruction of jobbers that fed his unprecedented winning streak.

Given that it was stock music that had been previously used in the company by former Oriental Express member Pat Tanaka, it was probably only meant to be temporary. It stuck, however, accompanying every one of the prolonged and pyro-laden walks that Goldberg took to the ring.

When Goldberg debuted in the WWE in 2003, two years after WCW’s demise, his appearance was scored by ‘Who’s Next?’ a track that would’ve been perfectly serviceable for anybody else, but was a poor imitation of its predecessor, attempting to replicate its tone with middling results.

Vince McMahon was allegedly unwilling to pay the licensing fees required to secure the usage rights to ‘Invasion’, though he thankfully saw sense ahead of Goldberg’s return to the ring in 2016, where it played over his entrance once more and has continued to do so through each of his limited appearances since.