7 great wrestling themes ripped off from real songs

#3 Raven - What About Me? (Nirvana’s Come As You Are)

While he was in ECW, Raven (along with most of the wrestlers) used an actual song for his theme, entering the arena to The Offspring’s “Come Out And Play”. He would use it in Ring of Honor years later as well.

When he jumped to WCW, they couldn’t just toss him out there using a real song without paying a ton of money to get it licensed (not that they couldn’t have afforded it), so they found a different song, toyed with it, and gave it to their newest tortured soul.

Raven’s persona was that of an angsty young man who looked like the embodiment of the grunge music movement, so it was an obvious choice to lift a song from the perennial grunge band, Nirvana.

WCW’s version of “Come As You Are” for Raven was slow, depressing and dark, and without lyrics, was even more effective than it would have been had they used the real song.

Later on when he joined TNA after being ousted from WWE, Raven would use an iteration of ‘Come Out And Play”, but when he dropped his cult leader gimmick and became a darker, more downtrodden soul, TNA went to the well and made their own adaptation of “Come As You Are”.

And it was way better than the version he used in WCW. Check that one out below.