WrestlingSmarks Tournament: Best Theme Song

[Chris]

Theme songs have been a vital part of wrestling since they became popular in the 1980s. From Hulk Hogan's "Real American" to Stone Cold's glass shattering entrance and more obscure ones like Uncle Kracker's X Factor theme , theme songs have become almost as iconic as the wrestler's themselves. This tournament is looking to decide once and for all which one can be considered "best" and there is no real criteria other than it has to be a theme for a wrestler, tag team, faction, authority figure, etc. (basically not doing PPV themes), but you can rate them personally on whatever you want. Some might rate them just how good the songs are individually, how iconic they became because of their wrestler, or a combination of both, either way send a list with a maximum of 20 themes ranked to me via PM and I'll get started on seeding.

Seeding is pretty simple, I didn't explain this for the last tournament but basically all I do is if you send me the full 20, your top choice gets 20 points, next choice gets 19...etc. If you only send 10 then your top choice only gets 10 points, same with however many you send. I'll tally up the points then use a site to make the bracket which I'll try to post once it's done (or at least link to it)

You guys have until Sunday to send these in (As long as I get enough for decent seeding by then) so I can try and get it in and started before Raw on Monday. The best WrestleMania tournament ends Sunday at noon EST (vote here), and you guys will have the rest of that day to send in lists if you haven't already so I can get the first round up by Monday. I'm probably only going to take the top 16 seeds for this but it's all dependent on how the seeding turns out from the lists you guys send so we'll see.

 

[Keith]

So does theme song include music too (which most entrance themes are)?

 

[Deezy]

So does theme song include music too (which most entrance themes are)?

yes.

 

[Chris]

So does theme song include music too (which most entrance themes are)?

Yeah of course, anything anyone has came out to...just wanted to specify not to include PPV themes

 

[Hoss]

Just to be clear, this encompasses all promotions?

 

[Chris]

Just to be clear, this encompasses all promotions?

Yeah anything works, think all submitted so far have been from WWE/WCW but anything is eligible

 

[Hoss]

Yeah anything works, think all submitted so far have been from WWE/WCW but anything is eligible

Ok and also... what if a theme has several versions but the changes are very minimal? Like Christian has ten versions of Just Close Your Eyes but they all pretty much sound the same except the one with female vocals. To what extent do we need to specify?

 

[Deezy]

got mine done....tried my.best to keep it strictly in house music....seems unfair to nominate songs that were already big outside of the rasslin bubble.

 

[Deezy]

Ok and also... what if a theme has several versions but the changes are very minimal? Like Christian has ten versions of Just Close Your Eyes but they all pretty much sound the same except the one with female vocals. To what extent do we need to specify?

Being specific would benefit you more than anything.

 

[Chris]

Ok and also... what if a theme has several versions but the changes are very minimal? Like Christian has ten versions of Just Close Your Eyes but they all pretty much sound the same except the one with female vocals. To what extent do we need to specify?

The more specific the better but if two versions are really similar then I'll just combine them together for the seeding. For Just Close Your Eyes as an example, I'd specify if you want the one with female vocals or the return version but if you specify and someone else doesn't, I'll just add their ranking to yours and such.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Just Close Your Eyes with Waterproof Blonde or nothing I say.

 

[Cwalker]

got mine done....tried my.best to keep it strictly in house music....seems unfair to nominate songs that were already big outside of the rasslin bubble.

I tried to do the same but Cult of Personality stil found a way on my list

 

[Keith]

So we can't have more than 20? Might be a problem for me

 

[Chris]

So we can't have more than 20? Might be a problem for me

Nah I thought about making it unlimited but say if you submitted 30 then your top would get 30 points and that would just be too much when everyone else's got 20, so I set a max and if anyone submits less than it then they're picks are kinda hurt by it. Some top picks with 20 points are already higher than songs that were in multiple people's lists bc they were low on the lists.

I'm gonna be taking the top 64 though and right now there's around 80 songs submitted so not very many are gonna be left out

 

[Keith]

Fair enough. The trimming shouldn't be too hard. I've got some guys with more than one theme so can just pick the best ones. Its just a shame as I was going to try and get Oz's theme on the polls just like the hipster I am