10 Iconic Wrestling Themes You Never Knew Were Recycled

When Vince McMahon first chose to foray into the music business, it was to produce the creatively-titled Wrestling Album, presumably because licensing well-known songs for his wrestlers was proving expensive. A slew of original songs were composed to replace these copyrighted tunes. The album was mostly an exercise in absurdity, including such riveting musical triumphs as "Grab Them Cakes", in which Junkyard Dog appears to endorse some kind of heavily euphemized dance floor groping, and Nikolai Volkoff singing "Cara Mia" with three sausage links in his mouth. It ultimately had only one song that would stand the test of time, the catchy and exciting anthem Real American, theme of the immortal Mike Rotundo.

Yes, "Real American" originally referred to US Express, forgotten heroes of the Rock n' Wrestling Era. Rotundo and Barry Windham wore American flag windbreakers and battled the likes of Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff over the tag team titles; basically, they were Hulk Hogan, the Tag Team. Their theme was waaaaaayyyy over, though, while Hogan's -- an instrumental version of Bonnie Tyler's "Ravishing" -- wasn't. Shockingly enough, Hogan pulled some strings and netted himself the classic theme that he's used for the majority of his career.