History SuspiciouslySimilarSong / ProfessionalWrestling

*** The humorous thing about that song is it's official WWE name is [[strike:"Boxed Man"]] "Bad Dream".

* ECW's original theme song, "This Is Extreme" has it's main riff similar to the main riff of [[RobZombie White Zombie's]] "More Human Than Human".

** Some infamous JHV's from WCW: "Come As You Are" by Music/{{Nirvana}} (Wrestler/{{Raven}}), "Even Flow" by Music/PearlJam (ChrisJericho, mostly heel run), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Music/{{Nirvana}} ([[DiamondDallasPage DDP]]), "War" by Edwin Starr (Misfits in Action), "The Zoo" by Music/{{Scorpions}} (The First Family), "Purple Rain" by Music/{{Prince}} (Prince Iaukea), "Cowboy" by Music/KidRock (JeffJarrett), "Beautiful People" by Music/MarilynManson (Perry Saturn/Revolution), "Perfect Strangers" by Music/DeepPurple (Shane Douglas) and "Burn" by Music/NineInchNails (David Flair).

** The Other Wiki once had an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Oliver article]] which listed songs TNA theme composer Dale Oliver has made Jimmy Hart versions of. The list was rather long, but has since been removed.

*** Elix Skipper's intro sounded A LOT like DMX's "Party Up".

*** [[TheSimpsons He's not Bryan Danielson anymore, he's Harry Plopper]]... er, Daniel Bryan.

* Kelly Kelly's theme is a softer version of DestinyChild's "Lose My Breath".

** HulkHogan's 2010 TNA theme is basically the original Wrestling/NewWorldOrder theme. (And he's wearing black again. And during his debut, he explicitly referred to the NWO in all but name, while talking with [[Wrestling/ScottHall Hall]], [[Wrestling/KevinNash Nash]], [[XPacHeat Waltman]] and Bischoff).

** One of Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels' first TNA themes, which later became his ROH TV theme upon his return there in 2010, was a JHV of Music/MarilynManson's "Disposable Teens".

* Wrestling/{{Christian}} Cage's TNA theme was originally a virtual note-for-note rip of the Music/{{Evanescence}} song "My Last Breath". It changed midway through his TNA run, perhaps for that very reason...
* Angelina Love's last TNA theme, Lesson Zero, is pretty much a JHV of "Papercut" by Music/LinkinPark, the song she still uses in the indies.
* Percy Watson and Titus O'Neil's theme seems to be a speed-up JHV of Lil' Jon's "What You Gonna Do".

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyOdaNiLW9Q Antonio Cesaro's theme]] is a JHV of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXHeTcxQy4 "Chelsea Dagger"]] by Music/TheFratellis.

* AliciaFox's theme is a JHV of Nelly's "Hot in Herre". What makes it really funny is that the theme is called "Shake Yo Tail". Nelly also did a song called "Shake yo Tail Feather." It copies one, but was named after another, making it look like the writer DidNotDoTheResearch.

* Used frequently in ProfessionalWrestling, especially in TNA (though it occasionally shows up in {{WWE}}; listen to the Full Blooded Italians' entrance music, and you'll be reminded of "No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys). WCW was an even worse offender before it got bought out, which is rather odd; they were a Time Warner subsidiary, and Time Warner ''owned'' most of the labels that were getting ripped off. As noted above, this is mostly due to Jimmy Hart, the former TropeNamer himself, writing the music for these companies. Other examples include Mortis using a reworked version of the theme from ThePhantomOfTheOpera (both characters wore a skull-like mask).

** Some infamous JHV's from WCW: "Come As You Are" by Music/{{Nirvana}} ({{Wrestler/Raven}}), "Even Flow" by Music/PearlJam (ChrisJericho, mostly heel run), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Music/{{Nirvana}} ([[DiamondDallasPage DDP]]), "War" by Edwin Starr (Misfits in Action), "The Zoo" by Music/{{Scorpions}} (The First Family), "Purple Rain" by Music/{{Prince}} (Prince Iaukea), "Cowboy" by Music/KidRock (JeffJarrett), "Beautiful People" by Music/MarilynManson (Perry Saturn/Revolution), "Perfect Strangers" by Music/DeepPurple (Shane Douglas) and "Burn" by Music/NineInchNails (David Flair).
** Way before Jimmy Hart debuted in WCW, there were still JHV's; for example, Dustin Rhodes' theme before the Slam Jam album was a JHV of "Money for Nothing", and the York Foundation used a JH "Dallas" theme.
*** And way before that, in the JCP/NWA days, there was the JHV of Giorgio Moroder's "Chase" that the Midnight Express used.
** Even more baffling than writing covers of songs they already owned, was WCW rewriting songs that were already in the public domain! RandySavage had previously used "Pomp & Circumstances" in WWF, but it was given a rock makeover in WCW.

* Recent example: World Heavyweight Champion Jack Swagger's entrance theme bears an extremely strong resemblance to the RageAgainstTheMachine song "Testify"; in fact, the band that performs the song is a RATM tribute band called [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Age Against The Machine]].
** Degeneration-X's theme is a lyrical JHV of "Killing in the Name". The lyrics both speak of rebellion. Compare the DX theme's "We just got tired of doing what we're told what to do" to these words of RATM's song, "And now you do what they told ya," and "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!"
** StoneColdSteveAustin's theme is actually a JHV of another JHV. His theme is based off of [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]]'s theme, which in turn is suspiciously similar to Music/TheEagles' "Dem Shoes".
** Speaking of former ECW guys, Tommy Dreamer's WWE theme is a Jimmy Hart version of his original ECW music, "Man in the Box" by Alice In Chains.

** Eric Bischoff's debut theme in WWE was Music/ACDC's "Back in Black", but he used a JHV called "I'm Back" by Ted Nigro for every subsequent appearance.
** The same thing happened with Balls Mahoney. [[InNameOnly The Sandman]], too...but not so much (it DOES bear some resemblance to "Enter Sandman", but again, not so much).
*** With "Enter Sandman" it was a necessity. Metallica charges $5-6 ''million'' just for the use of that one song. ECW used to have a cover version on hand just in case.
** The original ECW did this too sometimes...see: Taz's music morphing from the actual "War Machine" by KISS to a JHV, to his "Survive If I Let You" theme that used the opening riff to the JH War Machine and then a completely different melody.
*** WWE Diva Mickie James' entrance theme is pretty obviously the Jimmy Hart Version of [[strike: "My Sharona" by the Knack. You mean]] "Oh Mickie" by Tony Basil.
** Also, Bill Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}'s entrance theme in WWE was a Jimmy Hart version of his original WCW entrance theme (An awesome piece of stock music), due to the rights to the song not being available. The WWE version was not as awesome.
*** Victoria had previously used tAtU's "All the Things She Said" but was given a lyrics-less cover version for video games and DVD releases. Same goes for
*** The same could be said of Wrestling/{{Christian}}. The Waterproof Blonde version of "Just Close Your Eyes", later covered by Story of the Year and Bedlam's Gate, is itself actually the live-band-recording Jimmy Hart Composite of two of his previous themes, "At Last" (which itself--in an earlier iteration--was a Jimmy Hart Version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen) and "Blood Brother". Of course, one could just claim that it's a JHV of "My Last Breath" by Evanescence like his TNA theme afterwards was.
** Lord help the WWE if they lure Wrestling/BryanDanielson in ''without'' getting the rights to "The Final Countdown".
*** Considering the way they're going to likely repackage him, they probably wouldn't even consider giving him something that even remotely sounds like it. Let's consider it "averted" for him...for the moment.
**** Apparently he actually ''did'' get a mild JHV of it in Florida Championship Wrestling, but for storyline reasons he has to use TheMiz's music in WWE NXT.
*** [[TheSimpsons He's not Bryan Danielson anymore, he's Harry Plopper]]... er, Daniel Bryan.

** RingOfHonor's even started this: the music for their [=HDNet=] television show bears a remarkable resemblance to Velvet Revolver's "Slither".
*** Oddly enough, Ring of Honor never attempted this after the Internet outcry over Wrestling/BryanDanielson having to drop "The Final Countdown". Then again, lemonade was made from this lemon, as the emotional effect when it was brought back for special "off-camera" moments, ''especially'' at his last hurrah...
**** A suspiciously synthesizer-heavy version was used for his entrances on Ring of Honor's TV show, however.
*** As it turns out, WCW using this trope has probably saved WWE a ton of headaches, as they (usually) haven't had to bother with editing music on their archived WCW broadcasts, and certainly not to the same extent as they've had to self-edit. Most of the replacement songs for WWE versions aren't even this trope in action, as they're usually not even close to the original pieces.
** The Other Wiki once had an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Oliver article]] which listed songs TNA theme composer Dale Oliver has made Jimmy Hart versions of. The list was rather long, but has since been removed.
*** [[CurtHennig Mr. Perfect]]'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynCL_BbPK4 "I Am The Champion"]] easily takes the cake, hands down.

** To me, the opening of SamoaJoe's theme is a JHV of the {{Godzilla}} theme.
*** It's not just to you...on the independents, Joe's music would always start with the Godzilla theme.

*** That song actually was originally recorded by Hart in WCW, as the theme song for nWo 2000, but they ended up using the original "Rockhouse" instead. "Rockhouse" itself of course if a JHV of a couple Music/JimiHendrix tunes...
* The WWF Blue Meanie Theme is a JHV of Tinman's - 18 Strings, which in itself is a JHV of Nirvana's - Smells Like Teen Spirit.
* HulkHogan's first WCW theme, American Made, was an obvious JHV of Real American.
* Ted [=DiBiase=]'s Priceless is also a JHV, oddly enough. If you listen closely, the melody and instrumentation resemble Money by Pink Floyd.
* The Outsiders' pre-nWo theme music in WCW was a JHV of "Crazy" by Seal.
* ''The Wrestling Album'', WWE's first album of mostly wrestlers' theme music, includes the song "Eat Your Heart Out, Rick Springfield", written and performed by Mr. Hart himself, which is the Jimmy Hart version of Rick Springfield's song "Jessie's Girl". Justified, as it's a song about a guy who's jealous over his girlfriend's interest in Rick Springfield. Which also parallels/parodies the meaning of the original. Incidentally, the song was also used as Jimmy Hart's entrance music in the video game WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2006.

* ECW's original theme song, "This Is Extreme" has it's main riff similar to the main riff of [[RobZombie White Zombie]]'s "More Human Than Human".

** To be fair, just because they "Own" the rights doesn't mean they don't have to pay the artist to use the song. It's cheaper to get JH to write the song for you.
** Some infamous JHV's from WCW: "Come As You Are" by {{Nirvana}} ({{Wrestler/Raven}}), "Even Flow" by Music/PearlJam (ChrisJericho, mostly heel run), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Music/{{Nirvana}} ([[DiamondDallasPage DDP]]), "War" by Edwin Starr (Misfits in Action), "The Zoo" by Music/{{Scorpions}} (The First Family), "Purple Rain" by {{Prince}} (Prince Iaukea), "Cowboy" by KidRock (JeffJarrett), "Beautiful People" by MarilynManson (Perry Saturn/Revolution), "Perfect Strangers" by DeepPurple (Shane Douglas) and "Burn" by NineInchNails (David Flair).
** Way before Jimmy Hart debuted in WCW, there were still JHV's; for example, Dustin Rhodes' theme before the Slam Jam album was a JHV of "Money for Nothing," and the York Foundation used a JH "Dallas" theme.

** StoneColdSteveAustin's theme is actually a JHV of another JHV. His theme is based off of [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]]'s theme, which in turn is suspiciously similar to TheEagles' "Dem Shoes."

** Eric Bischoff's debut theme in WWE was AC/DC's "Back in Black", but he used a JHV for every subsequent appearance.

** Also, Bill {{Goldberg}}'s entrance theme in WWE was a Jimmy Hart version of his original WCW entrance theme (An awesome piece of stock music), due to the rights to the song not being available. The WWE version was not as awesome.
*** Victoria had previously used tAtU's "All the Things She Said" but was given a lyrics-less cover version a few months later. The same could be said of {{Christian}}. "Just Close Your Eyes" (both the Waterproof Blonde and the Story of the Year versions) is actually the live-band-recording Jimmy Hart Version of two of his previous themes, "At Last" (which itself--in an earlier iteration--was a Jimmy Hart Version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen) and "Blood Brother". Of course, one could just claim that it's TheJimmyHartVersion of "My Last Breath" by Evanescence like his TNA theme afterwards was.
** Lord help the WWE if they lure BryanDanielson in ''without'' getting the rights to "The Final Countdown".

*** [[TheSimpsons He's not Bryan Danielson anymore, he's Harry Plopper]]... er, DanielBryan.

*** Oddly enough, Ring of Honor never attempted this after the Internet outcry over BryanDanielson having to drop "The Final Countdown." Then again, lemonade was made from this lemon, as the emotional effect when it was brought back for special "off-camera" moments, ''especially'' at his last hurrah...

*** Elix Skipper's intro sounded A LOT like DMX's "party up".

** HulkHogan's 2010 TNA theme is basically the original NewWorldOrder theme. (And he's wearing black again. And during his debut, he explicitly referred to the NWO in all but name, while talking with [[ScottHall Hall]], [[KevinNash Nash]], Waltman and Bischoff).
*** That song actually was originally recorded by Hart in WCW, as the theme song for nWo 2000, but they ended up using the original "Rockhouse" instead. "Rockhouse" itself of course if a JHV of a couple JimiHendrix tunes...

* The Wrestling Album, WWE's first album of mostly wrestlers' theme music, includes the song "Eat Your Heart Out, Rick Springfield," written and performed by Mr. Hart himself, which is the Jimmy Hart version of Rick Springfield's song "Jessie's Girl." Justified, as it's a song about a guy who's jealous over his girlfriend's interest in Rick Springfield. Which also parallels/parodies the meaning of the original. Incidentally, the song was also used as Jimmy Hart's entrance music in the video game WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2006.
* Also on The Wrestling Album, "HulkHogan's Theme" is a JHV instrumental of Bonnie Tyler's "Ravishing".
** Actually, HulkHogan's theme had predated Ravishing by a year, as it had been used in 1985 as the theme to HulkHogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling and on "The Wrestling Album", whereas Ravishing had been released in 1986

* AliciaFox's theme is a JHV of Nelly's "Hot in Herre". What makes it really funny is that the theme is called "Shake Yo Tail." Nelly also did a song called "Shake yo Tail Feather." It copies one, but was named after another, making it look like the writer DidNotDoTheResearch.
* {{Christian}} Cage's TNA theme was originally a virtual note-for-note rip of the {{Evanescence}} song "My Last Breath". It changed midway through his TNA run, perhaps for that very reason...
* Percy Watson and Titus O'Neil's theme seems to be a speed-up JHV of Lil' Jon's "What You Gonna Do."
* KevinNash's theme when he used the Diesel gimmick during his first run in the WWE is a JHV version of AC/DC's The Jack.
* ECW's original theme song, "This Is Extreme" has it's main riff similar to the main riff of [[RobZombie White Zombie]]'s "More Human Than Human."

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyOdaNiLW9Q Antonio Cesaro's theme]] is a JHV of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXHeTcxQy4 "Chelsea Dagger"]] by TheFratellis.
* Kyoko Inoue's theme that she used in [[AllJapanWomensProWrestling AJW]] is a JHV of "Panama" by VanHalen which was her entrance theme for a bit in the early '90s.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyOdaNiLW9Q Antonio Cesaro's theme]] is a JHV of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXHeTcxQy4 "Chelsea Dagger"]] by TheFratellis.

** The same thing happened with Balls Mahoney. [[InNameOnly The Sandman]], too...but not so much (it DOES bear some resemblance to "Enter Sandman", but again, [[YourMileageMayVary not so much]]).

* ECW's own theme song was a JHV of RobZombie's "Dragula".

** Degeneration-X's theme is a lyrical JHV of "Killing in the Name". The lyrics both speak of rebellion. Compare the DX theme's "We just got tired of doing what we're told what to do" to the final words of RATM's song, "Fuck you I don't do what you tell me! Fuck you I don't do what you tell me!"

** StoneColdSteveAustin's theme is and obvious JHV of "Killing in the Name".

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyOdaNiLW9Q Antonio Cesaro's theme]] is a JHV of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXHeTcxQy4 "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis]].

* For that matter, WWE often inverts it by getting bands to do lyrical covers to wrestlers' generic instrumental themes. Applies to the WWF Aggression album (themes remade as rap songs), WWF/WWE Forcible Entry (remade with rock artists) and WWE Wreckless intent (both). Examples:
** RobVanDam's theme: he originally used [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWj8Q4d4RJw this instrumental]], before switching to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQk6RXeiUoY "One of a Kind"]]. The first theme's also a JHV of Pantera's "Walk", his {{ECW}} theme. And later, that same riff was used for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIXxEp9rDG8 "Fury of the Storm"]] on another WWE CD, and while RVD never used that theme for his entrance (outside of the licensed video games, anyway), it got [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqz3YYLi9qg it's own JHV]] when he went to {{TNA}}
** {{Wrestler/Kane}}, who had his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPds0cWwTc&feature=related original theme]] redone as "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLrkKW1jcRk Slow Chemical]]" by Finger Eleven.
** JeffHardy, whose [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFXGSCOkdXQ&feature=related generic porn music theme]] was redone as the song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha_w2faaPGc No More Words]]."
** The aforementioned Stone Cold theme got a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhpjpgAgfhA cover]] by Disturbed.
** ChrisBenoit, whose [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-go5-VrS0c theme]] was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc_jUq-chpo&feature=related redone]] with vocals by "Our Lady Peace".
** DGenerationX had its [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clSKabWpTsQ theme]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfEdYirf1sk remade]] by the legendary RunDMC.
** {{Lita}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pl83X4Jm2A Just Feels Right]]" was upgraded into "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ziHrsKyQFM Love.Fury.Passion.Energy]]" by Boy Hits Car.

* Kelly Kelly's theme is a softer version of DestinyChild's "Lose My Breath".

* Used frequently in ProfessionalWrestling, especially in TNA (though it occasionally shows up in {{WWE}}; listen to the Full Blooded Italians' entrance music, and you'll be reminded of "No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys). WCW was an even worse offender before it got bought out, which is rather odd; they were a Time Warner subsidiary, and Time Warner ''owned'' most of the labels that were getting ripped off. As noted above, this is mostly due to Jimmy Hart the former TropeNamer himself writing the music for these companies. Other examples include Mortis using a reworked version of the theme from ThePhantomOfTheOpera (both characters wore a skull-like mask).

* Used frequently in ProfessionalWrestling, especially in TNA (though it occasionally shows up in {{WWE}}; listen to the Full Blooded Italians' entrance music, and you'll be reminded of "No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys). WCW was an even worse offender before it got bought out, which is rather odd; they were a Time Warner subsidiary, and Time Warner ''owned'' most of the labels that were getting ripped off. As noted above, this is mostly due to Jimmy Hart the TropeNamer himself writing the music for these companies. Other examples include Mortis using a reworked version of the theme from ThePhantomOfTheOpera (both characters wore a skull-like mask).

** {{Lita}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pl83X4Jm2A Just Feels Right]]" was upgraded into "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ziHrsKyQFM Love.Fury.Passion.Energy]]" by Boy Hits Car

* KevinNash's theme when he used the Diesel gimmick during his first run in the WWE is a JHV version of AC/DC's The Jack.

*** Averted, as they didn't even bother JHV'ing. When he finally got his own music, at first he was using some generic-sound hard rock. And then he won the US Title, and now uses RideOfTheValkyries. The real version. So...upgrade?

* TedDiBiase's Priceless is also a JHV, oddly enough. If you listen closely, the melody and instrumentation resemble Money by Pink Floyd.

** To me, the opening of Samoa Joe's theme is a JHV of the {{Godzilla}} theme.

** Hulk Hogan's 2010 TNA theme is basically the original NewWorldOrder theme. (And he's wearing black again. And during his debut, he explicitly referred to the NWO in all but name, while talking with [[ScottHall Hall]], [[KevinNash Nash]], Waltman and Bischoff).

* Christian Cage's TNA theme was originally a virtual note-for-note rip of the {{Evanescence}} song "My Last Breath". It changed midway through his TNA run, perhaps for that very reason...

* Kevin Nash's theme when he used the Diesel gimmick during his first run in the WWE is a JHV version of AC/DC's The Jack.

** Some infamous JHV's from WCW: "Come As You Are" by {{Nirvana}} ({{Wrestler/Raven}}), "Even Flow" by Music/PearlJam (ChrisJericho, mostly heel run), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Music/{{Nirvana}} ([[DiamondDallasPage DDP]]), "War" by Edwin Starr (Misfits in Action), "The Zoo" by {{Scorpions}} (The First Family), "Purple Rain" by {{Prince}} (Prince Iaukea), "Cowboy" by KidRock (JeffJarrett), "Beautiful People" by MarilynManson (Perry Saturn/Revolution), "Perfect Strangers" by DeepPurple (Shane Douglas) and "Burn" by NineInchNails (David Flair).