10 Most Epic Wrestling Entrance Themes You May Not Have Heard

4. Rick Rude - Simply Ravishing

The beauty of the Ravishing Rick Rude act is that there was so, so much to hate about him, all of which born from perhaps the most primal human emotion of all: jealousy.

Rude's "stripper" WWF theme - heavily borrowed from, yes, "The Stripper" by David Rose & His Orchestra - was wonderfully sleazy, modernised for the excess of the 1980s with ridiculous wailing saxophones and sharp synths. Good as it was, it only really conveyed one aspect of his rounded personality. Rude was an aberration, in that he was a former WWF star who was better in WCW than he was up north, and didn't need to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into developing his character. He cut the mullet off. His musculature was still unbelievably impressive, even leaner. He was stripped of both the Stripper theme and the cartoonish connotations of it. This Rude, still a total p*ssy rat, was tougher and meaner.

"Simply Ravishing" was the perfect musical capper. It teetered dangerously close to a babyface theme, with its triumphant synths and awesome OTT soul vocals, but it just made you hate the man all the more, especially with lyrics subverting the cheesy bombast ("His body's chiselled/Abs all in a row/You'd think he was sculpted by Michelangelo!").

This impossibly brilliant a**hole just had to have the best music, on top of everything else.

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