![]() Montel Vontavious Porter went out and recorded his second WWE entrance theme without input from the company.He never used a Fozzy song as his own theme in WWE, but has used "Judas" in All Elite Wrestling. Chris Jericho's band, Fozzy, has had their songs as themes for a few of WWE's pay-per-view events, most recently "Martyr No More" for the 2010 Royal Rumble.Mickie James did her own theme song after leaving WWE, and since she's at worst decent, it heightened her rivalry with the similarly released Jillian Hall.Jillian Hall sings her theme music "Sliced Bread," which adds to her gimmick of being an absolutely AWFUL singer.Shannon Moore's final WWE theme song was an instrumental of a song he'd written & recorded.Jimmy Jacobs recorded several songs in Ring of Honor, particularly during his contributions to the Lacey's Angel's angle where he was expressing his love to the not so Lovely Lacey.They were performed with his band Peroxwhy?gen. ![]() Jeff Hardy's theme songs in TNA are written & performed by him.Some were used briefly as actual themes for the respective wrestlers briefly because, despite the valiant efforts of Jim Johnston, the world learned that professional wrestlers do not make for great singers (except Chris Jericho, who was already a singer and Lillian Garcia, who's not a wrestler but a ring announcer) Well, despite "Put A Little Ass On It" being laughably terrible, Rikishi happened to be a surprisingly good singer, and John Cena's "Basic Thuganomics" did have some longevity (but that's rapping, not singing.) The WWE produced an album called WWE Originals released Januwhich were songs all sung by the wrestlers or divas on the roster.The current one, "My Time Is Now", he performs with his cousin Marc 'The Trademarc' Predka. John Cena, due to the rapper gimmick he used to have, made his last two themes, one of which is still being used (over a decade later!) despite, as with Michaels, having long since dropped the gimmick.JD dojo graduate and Pro Wrestling Wave ace Yumi Ohka has The Gimmick of an idol who not only sings her own entrance themes but will interrupt shows to put on performances.He's done this pretty much ever since he started wrestling, having done so in TNA as Ron Killings and in his first WWF stint as K-Kwik. R-Truth not only raps his own theme but puts on a live performance of the theme as part of his entrance.Notable examples include The Rock, New Age Outlaws, Carlito, Finlay, The Miz, Zack Ryder, Ryback, Braun Strowman, Woken Matt Hardy, EC3 and Matt Riddle. Borderline examples but there's a whole host of wrestlers whose catchphrases make it into their themes, usually at the beginning.He used the same song for over a decade despite having dropped the "sexy boy" gimmick it was originally written for, and kept it right until retirement. Shawn Michaels sang his own theme song after he broke off with the previous singer and his then-manager, Sensational Sherri.Michael Hayes wrote and sang The Freebirds' "Badstreet U.S.A.".Manager Jimmy Hart was once the Trope Namer for Suspiciously Similar Song due to all the songs he's written when employed by various promotions.Wrestlers in The '80s often sung their own songs such as The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers ( Jacques and Raymond), Hillbilly Jim, and the Honky Tonk Man.
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