Should Jim Johnston Come Back To WWE

[Lardlad]

I posted this in the Vince Watch thread and it got a decent amount of replies. I think it deserves its own thread.

I keep seeing people post that Kevin Dunn will be fired or "retire" next. And that Bruce Prichard probably won't make it to the end of the year. I am sure there will be management changes good and bad and that some people i.e. William Regal, who were released earlier this year, will eventually come back.

But one guy I would LOVE to see come back is Jim Johnston. It always felt like Jim Johnston got released pre-maturely and I think it would make so much sense for him to come back for a few years, and then actually be honored into the WWE HOF and then retire. I'm not sure if he would even want to come back, but I would hope now would be the time.


P.S. WWE: Uncaged XVI is REALLY long overdue. There has not been an Uncaged release since February 2021. You used to be able to count on a release around WrestleMania and SummerSlam. What happened?

[hashtagdaley/JudasDay]

Johnston, CFO$, more licensed music as long as Def Rebel more or les gets kicked to curb.

[Lizuka #BLM]

He'd be fine but I'd a lot rather have back CFO$ honestly.

[Fade]

Someone new.

[Lardlad]

Jul 28, 2022 20:25:40 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

He'd be fine but I'd a lot rather have back CFO$ honestly.

Why CFO$ over Jim Johnston?

[Allie Kitsune]

Would much rather have CFO$

But whatever it takes to flush Def Rebel down the toilet.

[Allie Kitsune]

Jul 28, 2022 21:13:17 GMT -5 Lardlad said:

Jul 28, 2022 20:25:40 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

He'd be fine but I'd a lot rather have back CFO$ honestly.

Why CFO$ over Jim Johnston?

CFO$ was the soundtrack of NXT Black and Gold.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

I'd rather CFO$ because, as good as Jim Johnston was, I felt like his sound had been the sound of wrestling for so long that by the time CFO$ took over, it was time to change that sound.

[Fake Jesus]

All Jim Johnston is going to bring is name value; in reality there are literally millions of people who could do his job, probably for cheaper, and who might actually benefit from a break in the industry rather than a senior citizen no more talented than they are whose career stalled out at this weird level. That's not to really intend a torrent of hatred against him, it's just that he's someone whose time has really come and gone. Also I am always perturbed by his weird attempts to claim credit for the Undertaker's theme as some act of genius when it's, as everyone knows, on the same level as DDP having a smells like teen spirit ripoff song

“The original composition was just a piano, which didn’t work at all. It worked, I couldn’t figure out, ‘What’s the theme for a dead guy?’ I finally got that idea from thinking about, ‘Well, it’s sort of like really sad music for a funeral,’ and I thought almost like a childlike theme. I wrote it really high on the piano, incredibly simple [plays theme].

What the f*** are you talking about, man? Chopin finna Tupac your ass

[Hypnosis]

Jul 28, 2022 21:16:21 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Jul 28, 2022 21:13:17 GMT -5 Lardlad said:

Why CFO$ over Jim Johnston?

CFO$ was the soundtrack of NXT Black and Gold.

Plus a lot of good themes associated with that roster left with CFO$ like Ciampa's, Aleister Black's, and Nikki Cross'.

[hashtagdaley/JudasDay]

Jul 28, 2022 21:33:00 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

Jul 28, 2022 21:16:21 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

CFO$ was the soundtrack of NXT Black and Gold.

Plus a lot of good themes associated with that roster left with them like Ciampa's, Aleister Black's, and Nikki Cross'.

Left out the GOAT Theme;

TRUE LOVE / The Kenellises

[repomark]

Jim Johnston is responsible for so many iconic themes that I would be happy to see him back, but I am not sure if he still has the same desire to do the job he once did. It is by no means an easy job - as others have suggested - to come up with music to fit the character as perfectly as he did time and time again, and I think he deserves his own HOF induction on that basis.

It could be that he feels like that part of his life is in the rear view mirror though.

[The Legend of Groose]

For how much I love Jim Johnston, I'd rather have CFO$ back. Jim Johnston as he is good, his style was getting staler than month old bread by about the time they replaced him. CFO$ made every theme sound unique and you knew who was coming out when you heard it, unlike what it is now.

[Deleted]

Absolutely. He never should've been let go.