10 best walkout songs in UFC history

#7: Wanderlei Silva – Sandstorm by Darude

In the modern-day UFC, most fighters choose a walkout track from one of two genres – heavy rock or hip-hop. Only a handful of fighters would pick a track from the trance genre, but for Wanderlei Silva, no song fit him as perfectly as Darude’s 1999 hit Sandstorm.

Sandstorm is a song that builds slowly to begin with, but quickly explodes into insanity. With its repetitive-but-thumping beat and frantic feel, the song fit Wanderlei’s berserker fighting style down to a tee, and prepared the fans perfectly for the carnage that would usually follow.

Even now when MMA fans hear the song played in the nightclub or on the radio, it’s a bit hard not to copy Wanderlei’s trademark death stare and wrist-rolling action. The song will simply never cease to be associated with ‘The Axe Murderer’ – which makes it one of the best walkout tracks of all time.