10 WWE Stars Who Gambled On A New Entrance Theme

8. Randy Orton Gets Schizophrenic

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Randy Orton gambled on 'This Fire Burns', but it didn't suit him. A fantastic theme for CM Punk, it never sounded grandiose enough to fit a man WWE was always intent on etching into their Mount Rushmore as a Legend.

The soaring chorus and ridiculous/great guitar noodling to 'Burn In My Light' better fit the remit, but that intro was almost too accurate. It was like a stern prod.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

He points at the Royal Rumble sign year after year: of course he's the star we're telling you he is! If you built a WWE Superstar from the ground up, he'd look like Randy Orton!

That sky-scraping guitar line echoed Orton's ascendency, and once there, he gambled on 'Voices' as his headliner theme. It swapped generic rock for generic rock, but he got it over, lame vocals and lyrics aside. It's aggressive, with sinister keys hovering in the background, and the booming chorus springs to life, much like his finish, after a methodical, powerful sprawl of a verse.

It's very much Randy Orton's theme, in composition, and because those voices ring in our heads, now, through years of over-exposure.

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