History SuspiciouslySimilarSong / ProfessionalWrestling

* Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s new "Role Model" theme is essentially a key-shifted and heavier version of [[Music/Paramore Hayley Williams']] "Simmer".

* Monty Brown used a ''very'' blatant soundalike of [[Music/Disturbed "Down With The Sickness"]], down to the "ooh-wa-ah-ah-ah" vocal hook.

* Wrestling/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 the Music/{{Eagles}}' "Those Shoes". WordOfGod says Austin's theme was modeled off of "Bulls on Parade". It's original title, "I Won't Do What You Tell Me", is an allusion to this.

* Da Baldies, a stable in the later years of the company most infamous for featuring Vic Grimes in its ranks, had a theme that was basically the riff from "Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Group, which had been used in the company by [[Wrestling/AlPoling 911]] previously, turned into a hardcore mosh anthem.

* Wrestling/{{Glacier}}'s first theme was based on the original ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' theme on account of his character being an {{Expy}} of Sub-Zero. He was given another theme after about two months, perhaps due to legal disputes.

* Wrestling/HulkHogan's 2010 TNA theme is basically the original Wrestling/NewWorldOrder theme. (And during his debut, he explicitly referred to the nWo in all but name, while talking with Wrestling/ScottHall, Wrestling/KevinNash, Wrestling/SeanWaltman and Wrestling/EricBischoff). 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" by Frank Shelley instead (and the new song was instead used by WCW in video games ''WCW Nitro'', ''WCW/NWO Thunder'', and ''WCW Mayhem''). "Rockhouse" itself of course if a JHV of a couple Music/JimiHendrix tunes...

* Wrestling/RomanReigns' "Head of the Table" is a wework of the ''Series/{{Succession}}'' theme with the intro from StandardSnippet/OFortuna all in the key of The Shield's theme.

* Eddie Kingston's "Cold World" is Music/{{DMX}}'s "Slippin" and "Stop Bein Greedy" with a Franchise/{{Castlevania}} riff.
* Adam Cole's "All About That Boom" is [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Rage]]'s "Calm Like a Bomb" and "Bomb Track" with the beat of Cole's ROH Theme "Something for You" by David Rolfe.

* [[Wrestling/ToniStorm Toni Storm]]'s theme "Watch What's Next" is primarily based on Heart's "Barracuda", with elements of [[Music/LedZeppelin Led Zeppelin]]'s "Immigrant Song", Dokken's "Kiss of Death" and Marty Friedman's "Saturation Point".

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

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** The Other Wiki once had a list of songs of which Oliver has made suspiciously similar songs on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Oliver his article]]. The list was rather long, but has since been removed.

* Miss Tessmacher's "I Tease, U Touch", is a takeoff of the old ECW theme "This Is Extreme", which may be a nod to Brooke's time in the Extreme Exposé group in WWECW.

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] for AEW, according to composer Mikey Rukus, who mentioned that many of talent want soundalikes of whatever theme they used on the indies or in previous companies.

* Wrestling/JakeRoberts's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q81EW2fw6Y AEW theme]] is definitely a take on his old WWF "Snake Bit" theme.

* AEW stable Wrestling/ThePinnacle has a theme that sounds like a remix of one of the old Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen themes.
* Ricky Starks theme is a Bourbon St./Roots-flavored "Touch the Sky" by Music/KanyeWest.

* Adam Cole's "All About That Boom" is [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Rage]]'s "Calm Like A Bomb" and "Bomb Track" with the beat of Cole's ROH Theme "Something For You" by David Rolfe.

** Weirdly enough WCW regularly did this to ITSELF for video games, with JHV of their own already JHV themes for wrestlers like NWO members, DDP, and Jeff Jarrett. This is especially notable in WCW Backstage Assault, which had many entrance themes redone and some just getting a stock generic track shared among them instead of redoing or using themes that sounded too close to real songs. The official NWO theme used on television was never actually used in a WCW video game, instead being replaced by a very, very similar re-recording that would go on to be used in TNA as well.

* Even more baffling than writing covers of songs they already owned, was WCW rewriting songs that were already in the public domain. Wrestling/RandySavage had previously used "Pomp & Circumstances" in WWF, but it was given a rock makeover in WCW. Although the remix could also have been made to make it sound more like a wresting theme than somebody's graduation.

* Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s 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, his theme immediately after breaking up with Wrestling/{{Edge}}, "At Last" (which itself--in an earlier iteration--was a suspiciously similar song of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Music/{{Queen}}) and this theme in The Brood, "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.