Production playing an old theme music

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Sami Zayn got the wrong theme tonight, but I still don't think it tops the time Samoa Joe won the NXT title and they played his original funky debut theme.

Any other times production somehow played an old theme that for some reason is still on file?

[darbus alan]

Not in WWE, but it's happened a few times in AEW with NJPW wrestlers.

[Andew9001]

Not an old theme but at the end of Royal Rumble 2003 they played the shows theme for a few seconds before playing Brocks music.

On a side note Christian came out once to Michael McGillicuttys graphics well after he became Curtis Axel.

[sarkerpolseng]

Daniel Bryan pranked Regal with his old theme mid entrance one time.

[chazraps]

Somewhat related (and there's never a point to bring it up so I'm taking it now) once in 2013 Cesaro came out and his mini-tron beneath the Titantron showed the graphic for the Percy Watson Interview Segment that only ever made TV once or twice several years prior.

[A Little Doo Doo]

They accidentally played Toni Storm's "Ride it to the Edge" theme during her entrance at Evolution, after it'd already been changed.

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Leo Kruger on early Full Sail NXT, before he became the deranged poacher, had some royal-sounding theme to match his prim and proper South African rich guy gimmick. This gimmick only lasted one or two tapings (probably because it was exactly what Jinder Mahal was doing, just with a bedazzled sash replacing the turban), and I can’t even find the theme on Youtube.

Anyway, I think Kruger squashed Aiden English with a sleeper hold on one of the first episodes of NXT, but instead of the fancy rich guy theme, they played his FCW generic rock theme, “Demonal”. I think it was pretty faint, as if they tried to sound it out in post-production, and he cut a promo after so it didn’t last that long, but I always thought that was funny.



Not quite the same, but I always thought it was interesting that they had Antonio Cesaro do a squash in early Full Sail NXT and they used his FCW theme “Invader” when he had been using “Engerland” on the main roster for months. That seemed like more of a conscious choice, though.

[Allie Kitsune]

Oct 9, 2023 22:52:56 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

Not in WWE, but it's happened a few times in AEW with NJPW wrestlers.

I've always chalked that up to Tony being more a fan of their older theme (especially in the case of Ospreay).

[Ozman]

A couple of years ago Sheamus was in the ring following a commercial break on Smackdown and his “lobster head” theme was accidentally played.

[ben:friendship frog]

Not the same but years ago Muhammad Hassan finished up a promo and they accidentally played Charlie Haas' (WGTT) theme for a second or two.

[Evil Homer]

Crash Holly won a match, and they played the Hardys theme. I dont remember the match, but Im pretty sure it was for the hardcore title

[Lizuka #BLM]

Not really on the exact subject of the thread but adjacent to it, the Raw after Mania 33 during a commercial (or possibly just before the show started, forget which) they flashed up Emma's trons for a minute which kind of gave away her return later in the show.

[DiBiase is Good]

Wasn’t there a time when they very briefly played the first couple of seconds of ‘Burn in My Light’ instead of ‘Voices’ for Randy Orton? I think it was a pretty big event too, possibly even a Wrestlemania?

[Lizuka #BLM]

Oct 10, 2023 22:47:35 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

Wasn’t there a time when they very briefly played the first couple of seconds of ‘Burn in My Light’ instead of ‘Voices’ for Randy Orton? I think it was a pretty big event too, possibly even a Wrestlemania?

That one's actually an understandable mistake because the album version of Voices starts with the beginning of Burn in My Light for some reason.

[DDonaires]

They edited it on the Hulu version and played Sami's current theme

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Oct 10, 2023 22:35:15 GMT -5 Evil Homer said:

Crash Holly won a match, and they played the Hardys theme. I dont remember the match, but Im pretty sure it was for the hardcore title

At first, because I cannot read, this is what I was typing....

You're remembering WrestleMania 2000 where Crash was supposed to win at the last second, or at least, escape with the title. Instead, Tim White got a different countdown in his ear, Hardcore Holly won, so the Holly's music played anyway, which at least gave them the right music cue and they switched the title the next night.

[Cvslfc123]

I still get thrown off when Roman's exit theme uses the start of his post Shield theme as a loop.

[OGBoardPoster2005]

Oct 10, 2023 22:51:27 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Oct 10, 2023 22:47:35 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

Wasn’t there a time when they very briefly played the first couple of seconds of ‘Burn in My Light’ instead of ‘Voices’ for Randy Orton? I think it was a pretty big event too, possibly even a Wrestlemania?

That one's actually an understandable mistake because the album version of Voices starts with the beginning of Burn in My Light for some reason.

Honestly pretty sure they were playing the album version, hence the confusion.

[Banjo Is Broken]

This makes me wonder how people would react if Papa Shongo came out and they played the Godfather's music.