Trivia / SMW

• 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 Cornette mentioned on his podcast that he asked Rubin if he'd get in any trouble for this. Rubin's response? "I produce rap records, we steal stuff all the time. Do whatever you want until someone tells you to stop." No one ever told him to stop.
  • "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 The theme from COPS
  • 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 Davis^note Of the legendary Memphis tag team the Nightmares and one of the founders of WWE's former developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling, not the evil 1980s referee.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."