From Regal to Lana, 10 wrestlers who didn't deserve such great entrance themes

I'd imagine this is the type of song you'd hear in the afterlife when someone says, "You think you're going to Heaven? NOPE!" Pretty dramatic—too dramatic. At his meanest, William Regal would just be a pretty generic heel who would hit someone with a foreign object and act all coy as though he didn't. To know that Mr. Regal retained this entrance theme for most of his WWE career, where he played a gentlemanly good guy ... is simply besmirching.

At the time of his debut, this particular song seemed aptly on par with the level of theatrics Steve Borden deserved, as he was the highest-profile wrestler yet to step into WWE. To understand why this is included here, we must look at the entirety of Sting’s stay and win/loss record in WWE. He had one meaningless tag team win on RAW and lost all his PPV matches. So, in retrospect, his career in WWE was kind of a bust—and what this theme promised, Sting as an aged performer did not deliver.

This is generally forgotten by most, but back in mid-1999, Jason Reso’s character was firmly placed in Nowheresville. He and The Brood lost their mystique when they decided to talk in April, and it was still a ways away from the wonderful TLC matches. When he used this, he was just generic to the max, and this theme is the only thing that carried him to relevance. It felt out of place for its time and who it was for. Frankly, it was just too good for him at that portion of his career.

No. No. No. Mr. Perfect's son has all the pedigree and supports to make such an incredible impact on the company...except he fell flat on his face. Every. Single. Time. This had some glorious Roman gladiator feel to it, and he just came out and lost all the time, and embarrassed himself on the microphone enough to be permanently relegated to a comic relief character. Just...give this theme to someone else.

It was bad enough he used, and edit of Jimi Hendrix’s strings in a way that can only be described as aural graffiti in WCW, but at least that fit his persona. Returning to WWE, Hogan was again exalted as a larger-than-life, all-world superhero type. His level of wrestling skill simply did not merit this theme song, especially when it became apparent years later that Terry Bollea was/is racist against those of African descent.

The character would have to be a rock star to have such fancy metal music—and The Miz has been many things but never that. In fact, it would've fit his heel vibes as a reality star who forayed into the squared circle much more fittingly with some poppy alternative rock song. This was just too good for him. Luckily, it was short-lived in the grand scale.

This is more to do with how he's booked than anything else, I fear—but since being called up to the main roster in WWE, Bobby Roode has not done a single thing impressive, in my opinion. This song does not shout, "Unimpressive!" ... as it should.

This does not have to be all WWE. Arguably the best entrance theme produced for TNA / Impact Wrestling would be this bold, somewhat sexy, track given to ... mostly lame soap opera segments filled with bad acting. I'm sorry, Beautiful People, but you took the ball—and popped it.

This has GOT to be a babyface hero's song, right? Nope. It never was—and likely never will be. The Lana character is perhaps permanently marred with stains of reality crossing over and hurting the kayfabe world. Between murdering a[n admittedly bad] love triangle storyline with a real-life Instagram engagement post and inexplicably dropping her Russian accent on TV, in addition to just being known as a one-dimensional prized female figure in WWE, Lana simply...does not deserve this party music.

Okay, I realize this is not what you expected to end the list with, but think about the simple reality of what went on back in 1993. You had an ultra-rare Finnish super-athlete come out to his country's national anthem—and he represented the entire land...as a villain. Of course, wrestling is meant to be a show and all that—but this simply seemed way too on-the-nose and only really served to end up making people, temporarily, dislike Finland. Sad!