- Executive Meddling: Rick Rubin backed the company financially and generally left Cornette alone with two exceptions: He asked Cornette not to book Junkyard Dog because of Dog's condition at the time, and he requested that Cornette try a mummy gimmick, which led to Prince Kharis.
- Real Song Theme Tune:note
- "Bullet" Bob Armstrong used George Thorogood and the Destroyers' "Bad to the Bone"
- Brad Armstrong used Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."
- Scott and Steve Armstrong used Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire"
- The Big Bossman used Inner Circle's "Bad Boys"note
- Billy Black used Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special"
- Bobby Blaze used Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down"
- Boo Bradley used Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride."
- Chris Candido used INXS's "Suicide Blonde" and Extreme's "Get the Funk Out"
- "Nitro" Danny Davisnote used AC/DC's "TNT."
- The Dirty White Boy (Tony Anthony) used, of course, Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy"
- Doug Furnas used the Osborne Brothers' "Rocky Top."
- Eddie Gilbert used Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff", of course.
- Terry Gordy used Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird"
- Hawk used Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," of course.
- "Hollywood" Bob Holly used David Bowie's "Fame '90."
- "White Lightning" Tim Horner used Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls."
- Killer Kyle used Booker T. and the MG's' "Green Onion."
- "The Nature Boy" Buddy Landel used Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy", Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Gimme Back My Bullets" and Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra".
- Brian Lee used Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle" as a heel and Billy Squier's "Everybody Wants You" as a face.
- Dutch Mantel used Frankie Laine's "Rawhide"
- Chris Michaels used AC/DC's "TNT."
- The Mongolian Stomper used John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme."
- The Nightstalker used KISS's "War Machine."
- The Punisher (Barry "Recon"/"Bull" Buchanan) used KISS's "God Of Thunder."
- Sgt. Rock (Jacqueline) used The Rolling Stones' "Rock and a Hard Place."
- Tracy Smothers used the Charlie Daniels Band's "South's Gonna Do It Again."
- Al Snow used Faster Pussycat's "You're So Vain."
- Unabomb used KISS's "Unholy."
- The Batten Twins (Bart and Brad) used Foreigner's "Double Vision"
- The Bruise Brothers (Ron and Don Harris) used George Thorogood's "Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job" as faces and Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" as heels.
- The Fantastics (Jackie and Bobby Fulton) used ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man"
- Jackie Fulton used Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care of Business"
- The Gangstas used Public Enemy's "Shut Em Down" and "Can't Truss It" and Snoop Dogg's "Murder Was the Case"
- The Headbangers used the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away"
- The Heavenly Bodies (Prichard and Del Ray) used the Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein"
- The Party Patrol (Davey and Johnny Rich) used Hank Williams Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends" and MC Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit."
- The Rock 'n' Roll Express used Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock N Roll"
- Robert Gibson used the Electric Light Orchestra's "Rock and Roll Is King" as a face and Rick Derringer's "Rock N Roll Hoochie Koo" as a heel.
- The Stud Stable (Robert Fuller/Jimmy Golden/Dutch Mantel) used the Black Crowes' "Hard to Handle."
- The T.H.U.G.S. (Tracy Smothers and the Dirty White Boy) used the Fabulous Thunderbirds' "Tuff Enuff."
- The Thrillseekers (Chris Jericho and Lance Storm) used Danger Danger's "Rock America," which Jericho hated.
- The Wild Bunch (Al Snow, Joel Deaton, "Machine Gun" Mike Kelly and Billy Black) used Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild."
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