10 best walkout songs in UFC history

#2: Matt Hughes – A Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams Jr.

Few fighters in UFC history are quite as iconic as former UFC Welterweight champion Matt Hughes, and although his legacy as “the greatest Welterweight of all time” has now been surpassed by his once-rival Georges St-Pierre, one area that Hughes will always have GSP trumped in is their choice of walkout tracks.

For the majority of his UFC fights – particularly during his legendary title reigns of 2001 to 2006 – Hughes used A Country Boy Can Survive as his theme, and the classic track by Hank Williams Jr. became intrinsically linked with the wrestler from Hillsboro, Illinois. With its distinctive acoustic beginning, the song hardly sounds like an intimidating walkout song – but when you added in Hughes’s ultra-confident walk to the Octagon, it just worked.

A true ‘country boy’ who was equally at home hunting bobcats and working on his farm as he was smashing an opponent to pieces inside the Octagon, Hughes showed that the lyrics of Williams’ song were true – a country boy could survive. The walkout track was so good that UFC announcer Joe Rogan once referred to it as his favourite of all time.