10 Things WCW Ripped Off

Of all the many cultural ram raids WCW perpetrated, arguably none were more egregious than their wholesale theft of entrance music. It became a company signature to take a beloved song, change around enough notes to make it legally distinct, and blare it over a wrestler's entrance in an act of aggressively blatant songjacking. Sometimes WCW stumped up for the actual music, as with Sting' entrance to Seek And Destroy by Metallica, but more often than not they decided to concoct a rip-off version and put the money saved into the 'Excessive Amounts Of Pyro' fund.

Diamond Dallas Page sauntered to the ring to an opening riff swiped wholesale from Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, one of the most recognisable songs of its generation. Nirvana was pillaged again with Raven's theme which could easily be mistaken for Come As You Are from a distance, while Chris Jericho's WCW theme sounded an awful lot like Even Flow by Pearl Jam. The 'real' songs are now dubbed over on the WWE network while the rip-offs remain, so maybe WCW got the last laugh.