WWE Power Music 10 Review
Part of WWE’s frugal push for new content on the network! The show is just Rene Young doing a voice-over to introduce wrestling themes. This week it’s WM31 entrances only. Let’s do it to it! (Grammar, that is)
10: LL Cool J’s WrestleMania Intro
– This isn’t a song! Rene says tough titties, it has LL Cool J.
9: Bray Wyatt “Live in Fear”
‘Walking dead scarecrows’ coming to life getting closer to his lantern is so friggin’ cool. It’s freaky, haunting and fits perfectly with him, and would be cheap to do! I absolutely love it. I felt bad for the crowd trying to do the fireflies/phone light thing in the daylight. D’oh!
8: The Rock “Electrifying”
I love how ridulously huge the Mania set is, the gigantic text dwarfing a massive dude like the Rock.
7: David Guetta & Skyler Grey “Rise” / Kid Ink “Money and Power”
Sandbag.
6: Stardust “Written In The Stars”
Shocked really as this segment is less than 30 seconds! Rene drops ‘comic’ and ‘Sinster’ and says it’s Stardust’s first WrestleMania match. Love the kayfabe!
5: John Cena “The Time Is Now”
I can’t look at Cena’s rag the same way again.
4: The Undertaker “Rest In Peace”
From Death Valley to Silicon Valley. Cool rising pillars during his Mania entrance, I never noticed it before.
3: Sting “Out From The Shadows”
Rene calls it the final battle between WCW and WWE. It’s so weird the week before RAW Sting admitted that dredging up a 14-year grudge would be ridiculous (that it was about Aitch abusing his power) but they went back to it for the match itself and seemingly officially now.
Was it ever revealed why Sting had a Japanese Taiko drum band? It’s really cool and different but it makes no sense for Sting?
2: Triple H “The Game”
I mentioned it on the Piledriver Wrestling WM31 episode, Terminator 2 is my favourite film and Schwarzenegger is my favourite actor (T1&2, Predator, Running Man, Total Recall, Commando etc) so doing a Terminator entrance is something I’d book! There has to be a way to have a less silly Nazi-terminator deeley that Aitch had on, but although it’s SO hokey, it was amazing. Flipped seeing Schwarzenegger on-screen saying “WrestleMania! It’s time to play the game!”
1: Rusev “Roar Of The Lion”
Rusev dadada! Rusev dadada! I completely agree here with #1. Rusev’s tank entrance may be the absolute best entrance in the history of wrestling. I FLIPPED OUT seeing it. Loved Lana beaming with pride with the fur & belt on her shoulder. Combined with the patriot gimmick of Rusev, and the “ride the lightning” of national anthems, it’s incredible! Can you think of a cooler entrance?
Overall it’s just extra content to have in a list of exclusive Network shows; this half hour episode feels quite slap-dashed, as Rene doesn’t appear on camera (nobody does!). Also sure it’s a less blatant way to advertise their themes on iTunes. However I think it’s great that WM31 gets special mention for it’s incredible entrances, as a PPV it tops the list. I wonder how this’ll work for when they’re not showcasing a PPV; like if they’ll just show their entrance videos on loop for 3 minutes.
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