10 WWE Stars Who Gambled On A New Entrance Theme

10. John Cena Changes It Up At The Top

These experimentations tend to happen when an act feels stale, or if the first experimentation is sh*t.

There is a long litany of Mandela Effect one-month specials in WWE, but this was decidedly different: in the first of just two character tweaks in about a decade - the second of which saw John Cena magically turn into a super-worker for a few glorious months in 2015 - the impending Ace of the company switched up his instantly iconic theme just before he was set to assume the role.

It was a strangely-timed and audacious gambit - Basic Thuganomics was a great, obviously bespoke theme that, with its violin-led sting, mirrored Cena's incredible ability to play the crowd like a fiddle - but it paid off.

'My Time Is Now' was on-the-nose, but perfectly so. The sting sounded daunting, to his opposition and turned-off hardcore fans alike, both of which converged to enhance Cena's super-dominant aura. The mariachi trumpet was such an unusual, out-of-character choice, but the music-of-the-streets flavour enhanced his persona as a new man of the people.

Half of those people hated him, of course, but he made the theme, and not the other 'way round.