10 best walkout songs in UFC history
It takes a lot of things to succeed in the UFC – intense training, expert skill, heart and guts, a bit of luck – and that’s just inside the Octagon itself. To actually become a UFC superstar, a fighter has to have all of those things, plus a marketable personality, a great deal of charisma, and ability on the microphone.
One underrated key to becoming a major star inside the world’s biggest MMA promotion is to be able to pick the right walkout track – a song that gets the fans pumped for the fight and can also be easily associated with the fighter’s personality and style.
Often we’ve seen big-name fighters switch tracks regularly, preferring to change it up or to pick songs that fit whichever fight they’re going into – the likes of Luke Rockhold and Georges St-Pierre have followed this pattern – but most of the time the UFC’s biggest stars have a recognisable theme, and none more so than the following 10 fighters.
Here are the 10 best UFC walkout tracks of all time.
#10: Matt Brown – Hail To The King by Avenged Sevenfold
Former top Welterweight contender Matt Brown liked to switch up his entrance music from time to time when he first debuted in the UFC in 2008, but when he began to make his climb into title contention in 2014, he ended up settling for one of the most intimidating walkout songs of all time.
Fighting in his hometown – Cincinnati, Ohio - at Fight Night 40 against Erick Silva, Brown entered to the sounds of Hail To The King by Avenged Sevenfold. With its thumping drum-beat, driving guitar riffs and lyrics that talk of war, death and blood, the song fit Brown’s all-action, ultra-aggressive style down to a tee.
Hearing the song, you instantly got the feeling that Silva simply had no chance – and sure enough, after three violent rounds later, Brown had won by TKO. Brown would only go on to win a further 2 fights of his next 7 following the victory, but every time that song hit, it was hard not to be scared for whoever ‘The Immortal’ was facing.