WWE:
Alter Bridge - "Rise Today" (Unforgiven 2007)
As a song, it's pretty good. Maybe not my favorite, but something I wouldn't turn off if I heard it. As a theme, it doesn't really get me pumped or excited about anything.
Adam Morenoff - "Break Down The Walls (2012 Edit)" (Chris Jericho)
Honestly, I like the other edits of this song better, but it's still a solid pick. Problem for you is, everyone else brought better than solid.
Civil Twilight - "Letters From The Sky" (Orton/Cena from Bragging Rights 2009)
A pick out of left field... and I absolutely love it. It's not that it's different, but it's different
and awesome. Great, great move.
Living Colour - "Cult Of Personality" (CM Punk)
This isn't a song that
should be a great entrance theme, but it is. Sounds great and heroic at first listen, but the lyrics have a seedier meaning, like the character himself.
TV/TV - "Smoke & Mirrors" (Cody Rhodes)
I don't know if I'd call this a great song per se, but the cheesy 80s feel is a perfect fit for the Dashing One. Another nice pick.
Rick Derringer - "Real American" (U.S. Express/Hulk Hogan)
As an entrance theme, this was the game changer. As a song, it's good-but-not-great. Rating it any higher than I am would simply be out of nostalgia.
12 Stones - We Are One (Nexus)
This is another one that's not as good of a theme as it is a song, just like Rise Today. But I like this as a song better than I like that one.
Jim Johnston - "What About Me?" (Raven)
Take away the raven caws and it's just generic guitar riff theme #317. There are so many other options out there that worked better both as themes and as songs.
Jim Johnston - "You're Gonna Pay" (Undertaker)
It's not terrible... but I just never liked this song. Just seemed too... forced, I guess... for what Big Evil was supposed to be.
Watt White - "Radio" (Zach Ryder)
Remember what I said about Smoke & Mirrors? Triple that.
Terrible song, but an absolute
perfect fit for Zach.
Letters From The Sky
Cult Of Personality
Smoke & Mirrors
Radio
Real American
We Are One
You're Gonna Pay
Rise Today
Break Down The Walls
What About Me? (Raven)
TNA:
GRITS - "Get Ready To Fly" (AJ Styles)
Hell of an earworm, this is. One of my all-time TNA favorites.
Fozzy - "Enemy" (Bound for Glory 2006)
Certainly not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not quite phenomenal.
Dale Oliver - "Sorry About Your Damn Luck" (James Storm)
Maybe someone else likes this. Maybe I'm crazy. To me, this sounds like the
Countdown Singers' cover version of someone else's song.
Serg Salinas - "Longnecks & Rednecks" (James Storm)
I could almost copy-paste the comments about Sorry About Your Damn Luck. Not quite as bad, but still not a great theme OR a great stand-alone song.
Jeff Hardy & Dale Oliver - "Resurected" (Jeff Hardy)
This actually works better as a theme - especially for Jeff Hardy's character - than either of the James Storm picks, even though it's not that much better of a stand-alone song.
Jeff Hardy & Dale Oliver - "Another Me" (Jeff Hardy)
Jeff's not a great singer, but this song... just works for him beautifully. I don't know why I like it as much as I do, but I do.
Tha Trademarc - "Gold Medal" (Kurt Angle)
Maybe not as great a fit for Angle as some of the other songs, but certainly one that gets you pumped up to fight.
Konnan - "Dawgz" (L.A.X.)
Not the most memorable of songs, but it fits for L.A.X., so it gets points from me.
Adam Skaggs - "Motorcity" (Motor City Machineguns)
Another one that's not that great by itself (not terrible, but not amazing), but it works for these guys so it works for me. It's like a less extreme version of Radio in that sense.
Gearz and Dale Oliver - "1967" (Motor City Machineguns)
Another song that sounds kind of generic. Not bad, but not all that good either.
Get Ready To Fly
Another Me
Gold Medal
Motorcity
Enemy
Dawgz (L.A.X.)
Resurrected
1967
Longnecks & Rednecks
Sorry About Your Damn Luck