5 worst PPV theme songs in WWE History
Music is very important in the world of professional wrestling. Give a wrestler the wrong theme song, and you could inadvertently bury him under a pile of mish-mashed guitar riffs that he can barely dig himself out of.
A great song can create the perfect mood and atmosphere, and the same goes for theme songs that go along with specific events. Remember the epic video package for the Stone Cold vs. The Rock match at WrestleMania x-Seven? The choice to use Limp Bizkit’s “My Way” made an epic video package into something legendary, and the event itself didn’t disappoint either.
There are tons of great examples, but WWE has dropped the ball their fair share of times when it comes to choosing music for an upcoming event. Here are the five worst WWE pay-per-view theme songs of all time.
#5 “Chinese Democracy” - Guns ‘n Roses (Armageddon 2008)
In what was one of the most notorious jokes in music circles in the late 90s and early 2000s, Axl Rose promised the epic “Chinese Democracy” song and album of the same name going back all the way to the mid-1990s after they released their last (at the time) studio album in 1994. It was going to come out, it was just about ready, they were putting the finishing touches on it, and then it wasn’t ready.
More finishing touches. More tweaks, rewrites, retoolings, what have you. GNR started recording in 1997 and it was originally slated for a 2000 release, but it was held back for 8 full years. Nobody believed it would ever come to light, and when it did, it was… okay? Certainly not worth the decade of hype that led to the band’s first studio release in 14 years.
The song was released in October 2008, followed by the album a month later, and WWE grabbed it one month later for their final pay-per-view event of 2008, Armageddon. The event, which turned out to be the final of its name, was just fine, with the most memorable moment being Jeff Hardy winning his first WWE Championship.
I guess the song sort of fits an Armageddon type scenario if you stretch, but it’s mostly just a weird, pseudo-political song about nothing in particular. It was a decent enough rock song, but it was a disappointment and felt weird as a WWE show theme song, so it kicks off this list.