10 Times WWE Tried To Fix Something That Wasn't Broken

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's generally a good mantra to follow in professional wrestling.

After all, smart-mark fans are so capricious these days that something that is popular one week could be jeered the next. If you find something that people like, you have to squeeze that cash-cow for every last drop.

Usually, WWE is pretty good at identifying things that work. In fact, usually fans criticise them for the exact opposite: allowing something obviously stale to out-live its expiration date, beating a dead horse until its innards explode all in our stupid faces.

But sometimes they also kill things off too soon. Things that, in terms of crowd reaction (and therefore, you must assume, ticket and merchandise sales) are doing very well, yet - for whatever reason - just don't sit well with someone* in the back.

So they try to fix it in some way. A makeover, a change of character, or (Lord have mercy) a chant-along catchphrase even. Then, sure enough, the wrestler on the receiving end of the remedy ends up in a worse place than they were before.

*Vince McMahon, if we had to guess.

Eagle-eyed (or, rather, eared) fans couldn't help but notice that our beloved Goldberg walked to the ring to subtly different entrance music shortly after making the switch from WCW to WWE in 2003.

It was the same tune, roughly - fans could still chant his name as he punched and kicked through the pyro - but it didn't quite capture the spirit of the WCW version. It was more produced, and seemed less ominous than the original, which put in mind the shark from Jaws stalking its prey.

Why they changed it isn't altogether clear, especially since they used the original track for Goldberg's second WWE run beginning late last year. If we had to guess: they probably just wanted to put their own unique, slightly-rubbish stamp on their rivals' biggest homegrown star.