10 Iconic Wrestling Themes You Never Knew Were Recycled

9. Cesaro Cribs From The Iceman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXnXDiVpY10

Cesaro' current theme music (as of May 2015) is pretty terrible, an oddball techno number overlaid with ambulance sirens, maybe because the Swiss flag kind of looks like it could belong on an emergency vehicle? The poor guy has averaged two themes a year over his time in WWE, but his best was likely his third, titled "Miracle". Of all his themes, it fit his unique background the best, consisting of verses rapped in French and German over distinctive synthesizer riff. Even when it was mostly drowned out by ill-conceived yodeling, it was still pretty good.

Eagle-eared listeners will note that the backing track to "Miracle" is secretly "Double-Ho Seven", Dean Malenko's James Bondian theme from the bizarre portion of his career when it was decided that he was an insatiable sex machine. Vince McMahon loves giving wacky ladies' man gimmicks to hard-nosed ring tacticians: see also Bryan, Daniel and Storm, Lance. Apparently, the contrast between their "boring" no-nonsense grappling and the excitement they inspire in women is hilarious to McMahon. Actually, Cesaro is no slouch in his ring work, and we already know that Vince believes that he "doesn't connect", so nobody should be shocked if the Swiss Superman begins doing a new kind of swinging in the near future.

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