Ranking What Was Really The Best Wrestling Entrance Theme Every Year 1990-2021

9. 2013 - Kazuchika Okada

In what is just possibly the greatest entrance music sting this side of the shattered glass, Kazuchika Okada's entrance theme begins with a coin drop.

It brilliantly conveys the idea that Okada was a born-for-it prodigy who only needed to flash some cash to plug directly into the main event scene. Much like his instantly legendary main event career, it proceeds with a series of impactful bursts before galloping into a deluge of a riff that just barely relents to soak in the applause - before the track doubles to reflect the exponential quality of his impossible legacy.

 
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