10 Anime & Video Game Tunes That Would Make Great WWE Theme Songs
What is best in life? To listen to great music, watch the best wrestlers, then put the two together.
As good ol' J.R. once said, "Anime, Videogames and Wrestling, oh my!"
OK, that's not quite what he said. But it doesn't take too much of an effort to link the three groups together - video games and wrestling have shared a decades-long relationship stretching back to the days of the Commodore 64 and Atari ST, and with pro wrestling's reliance on melodramatic storytelling, broad comedy and spectacular fights the connection between it and anime is an easy one to make.
Something else all three groups have in common? Some absolutely cracking tunes.
For this list, we've taken a look at some of the best music across videogames and anime and matched them to the WWE superstar we believe they'd be the best fit for. (Just to be clear: we are not saying that any of the entrants on this list have bad theme music. Each wrestler here has been well served by WWE's in-house musicians and this article should be viewed solely as a tongue in cheek, "what if" exercise.)
We hope that you enjoy the article, and please feel free to share your own wrestler/music pairings in the comments below!
10. Ain't No Rest For The Wicked (Borderlands) - Kevin Owens
Kicking off the list we have Cage the Elephant's Ain't No Rest for the Wicked, the intro song to Borderlands and the perfect song for Kevin Owens' "Prizefighter" character.
K.O. began his WWE career as a heel who justified his callousness under the pretence of providing for his family, bullying and victimizing title-holders so he could make champion-level money as quickly as possible. Divested of the openly heelish parts of the character, Owens' Prizefighter persona would make for a great 'tweener and Ain't No Rest for the Wicked would be a perfect choice of theme song.
A paean to those who make their way through life by any means necessary, the song's "Money don't grow on trees" refrain and drawling, laid-back sound are a perfect fit with the Prizefighter's clinical attitude to violence - nothing he does is personal, he's just doing what he has to for the people he cares about.
(Might want to edit out the verse with the prostitute though - WWE probably don't want kids asking their parents what the singer means when he says "If you pay the right price then your evening will be nice").