10 Worst WWE Entrance Music Downgrades

There are few things as immortalised in wrestling as the sound of glass shattering. A split second was all that was ever needed to let the world know that Stone Cold Steve Austin was in the building and that hell was likely to be raised imminently.

In one of his books, Chris Jericho explained how he sought to change his entrance music when he returned to the company in 2007 with a new heel character, only to be overruled by Vince McMahon because ‘Break The Walls Down’ was so synonymous with him that he couldn’t contemplate him ever walking to the ring to the sound of anything else. Many other performers have probably had the same conversation and gotten the same response – Shawn Michaels always came out to ‘Sexy Boy’ for instance, regardless of persona.

Why Stone Cold’s ‘I Won’t Do What You Tell Me’ was changed in 2001, therefore, remains a mystery. Austin turned heel at WrestleMania by doing the unthinkable and aligning with longtime nemesis Vince McMahon and was then the recipient of four different new themes over the course of the next few months, all as awful as one another.

Separate face and heel themes can work, such as in the case of Triple H switching between ‘The Game’ and ‘King Of Kings’ as his character dictates, but inflicting such dross on the company’s most popular performer was borderline criminal.