5 WWE entrance themes that were originally meant for someone else

#4. AJ Styles' WWE entrance theme - "Phenomenal" (originally intended for James Storm)

AJ Styles and James Storm in TNA/IMPACT Wrestling

Over his long and extraordinary career, in all the different promotions he's worked for, has AJ Styles had a better entrance theme song than he does in WWE right now?

When the organ notes and the "yep yep" of the opening of "Phenomenal" began to play at the 2016 Royal Rumble, fans arguably didn't need to see the "I am Phenomenal" tag appear on the Titantron to know who was coming out. It played off of his persona - down-home, religious, regular old Southern boy - who's also the coolest guy in the ring. How could this entrance theme not be written specifically for him? Well, you've read this far into the feature, you know where this is going.

Around the same time Styles was hammering out a deal to go from New Japan to WWE, his former Fourtune stablemate in TNA, James Storm, was also in discussions to sign as part of WWE NXT. He even appeared on an episode back in 2015.

According to "Road Dogg" Jesse James, during an episode of Table For 3 (one of the more underrated shows on the WWE Network), the song had originally been intended for Storm had he signed a long-term deal with the company. Instead, Storm decided to return to IMPACT, leaving a perfectly good entrance theme just laying about for someone to stumble across.

So, when Styles signed - rightfully skipping NXT altogether - WWE gave him Storm's intended theme music.

That's not to say the entrance theme wouldn't have been a good fit for "the Cowboy" had he decided to stick around. But, after all this time, it's hard to imagine it playing for anybody else than "the Face That Runs the Place."