10 Worst WWE Entrance Music Downgrades

Evidenced by the aforementioned uses of Strauss and Handel by Ric Flair and Damien Sandow, WWE actually have a good track record when it comes to their use of classical music. Daniel Bryan’s twist on Wagner’s Flight Of The Valkyries is always a delight to hear, whilst Macho Man Randy Savage was always the personification of Elgar’s ‘Pomp And Circumstance’ as he strolled to the ring.

For most of his WWE career, The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith was accompanied by a rendition of 'Rule Britannia’. The decision to give the British wrestler who sported a British flag on his trunks a piece of British patriotic music reeks of laziness in retrospect, but in an era where few themes were recognisable, it helped him be conspicuous and hammered home his character (or lack thereof – the early 90s were hardly a creative highpoint).

Davey’s third and final run in the company was during the height of the Attitude Era, where Rule Britannia was unceremoniously dropped from his entrance. A garbled rock remix was quickly replaced by a generically bland track that stood out from the masses of other generically bland tracks on the roster at the time only by the fact that it had the sounds of some dogs barking worked into his (because he’s the bulldog, get it!?).

Said run lasted less than a year, with Bulldog ultimately passing away in 2002. Here’s hoping his Hall Of Fame induction will see Rule Britannia blared out once more.