10 Iconic Wrestling Themes You Never Knew Were Recycled

There's a laundry list of reasons why Randy Orton failed as a main event talent in 2005. He had attitude problems, white guy tribal tattoos, and a gimmick that required him to occasionally spit on Koko B. Ware, for example. But his theme music, a whiny little number called "Burn in My Light", certainly didn't help matters. As WWE scrambled to change basically everything about Randy Orton, they eventually decided to bestow a brand-new theme on the Viper. That theme was "This Fire Burns", which kept the fiery motif of the original but toned down the whining considerably. 

That fire burned briefly, however. Orton seems to have used the theme once, on a single episode of SmackDown in 2006. Despite the new theme being heavily hyped during that appearance, he'd immediately go back to his original theme until finally adopting "Voices" in 2008. The abandoned theme would not go to waste, however. Within a few months it was passed down to CM Punk for his debut in the WWE-revived ECW. Punk would go on to get great mileage out of the song, and it heralded his entrance throughout his ECW tenure, his run with the Straight Edge Society and his first WWE title win before finally being replaced with "Cult of Personality" in 2011.