10 Worst Musicians in WWE History

WWE launched into the mainstream thanks to the Rock N' Wrestling Connection in the 1980s. This helped bring on WrestleMania's success and ultimately is responsible for what WWE is today.

Naturally, WWE tried to embrace this connection and strike while the iron was hot in a couple of ventures.

One of the most infamous ways was by trying to have wrestlers become musicians. WWE would release their own albums, which was the first chance for wrestling fans to get some of the entrance music to their favorite superstars.

Albums initially were made entirely of songs sung by the superstars on your television weekly. WWE has since steered away from that with a lot of their albums, outside of a few exceptions. Nowadays, an album from WWE typically just has superstars' themes on it, as a superstar singing his own theme is basically a rarity. It has not stopped superstars over the years from trying out their singing chops.

It really makes you question why some of them have even bothered. Legendary manager Slick can sing "Jive Soul Bro" for himself, but maybe Rob Conway should have stopped wanting people to "Look At Me."

There have been some shining singing moments, but what fun is that? Allow me to put my Simon Cowell hat on and list the 10 worst singing wrestlers in WWE history.

Honky Tonk Man

It’s pretty obvious on the surface that the gimmick of The Honky Tonk Man was not exactly supposed to be a big seller. Despite that, it just seemed to be the right gimmick for the right guy. Issues with Ricky Steamboat and Randy Savage may have assisted, but HTM was able to give himself the longest reign as Intercontinental Champion in WWE history.

It also doesn’t hurt that his real-life brother is none other than Jerry “The King” Lawler. Being related to The King and having a gimmick that paid tribute to Elvis Presley is just ironic, but he was a guy who made the best of his situation and grew to have a great career out of it. His singing needed some work, but there have been a lost worse.

R-Truth

It’s hard to really knock R-Truth, or his original gimmick in WWE as K-Kwik. Whether he was "Gettin’ Rowdy" or asking, "What’s Up?" R-Truth has pretty much stuck to what he wrote and hasn’t done a lot of freestyling in his rapping in wrestling.

Basically, R-Truth wrote a song or two, made it his entrance music and sang it a couple hundred times a year. I can try to give you the breakdown of what R-Truth is actually saying in "What’s Up?" but it’s hard to really follow him, especially when he is rapping live.

There’s something about a magician, though. I got that much.

John Cena

John Cena doesn’t do a lot of rapping anymore and there’s probably a good reason why.

Cena does possess skill with his rhymes and could school me in a battle pretty easily. This doesn’t take away from the fact that some of Cena’s rhymes were a bit unusual. Cena has already rapped two of his own entrance themes and released an entire CD.

Just look at some of the rhymes from Cena’s current entrance theme. According to the first verse, Cena will never be caught in another man’s sweater and will brush your teeth. If you don’t believe me, it’s there.

Rockabilly

Oh, Billy Gunn. You sure had it pretty bad when you were supposed to be Rockabilly, a rock n’ roll gimmick in the early days of Billy Gunn’s career. Following a stint in The Smoking Gunns, Gunn would become Rockabilly and be the protégé of The Honky Tonk Man. Gunn would meet his future tag-team partner in Jesse James and the two would ultimately form the New Age Outlaws after Rockabilly turned on HTM.

Still, it pains me to say that it all started with Rockabilly. Then again, we all have to start somewhere.

Dolph Ziggler had to be a caddy and a male cheerleader before he could be the superstar he is today.

Jesse James

Years before he welcomed us to The Dogg House, "The Real Double J" Jesse James sang on his way to stardom. Seriously. Oh, you didn’t know? (Yes, I had to do that.)

We can make comments about how Road Dogg was a good rapper and, to this day, can still provide us all with pretty good rhymes. But this isn’t about Road Dogg. This is about the singing cowboy immortalized on a recent episode of "Are You Serious?" by the name of Jesse James.

Rock on, cowboy.

Edge and Christian

Remember the days where Edge and Christian were still a tag team and totally reeked of awesomeness? This is not to say that the WWE Hall of Famer and his multi-time World Heavyweight Champion buddy don’t still reek, but they sure had some funny moments together.

They would often come to the ring in outfits. From big 10-gallon hats to Fat Elvis suits, Edge and Christian did just about all of it.

So, what does any of this have to do with being bad musicians? They did dabble in some kazoo performances. Thankfully, Edge never used the kazoo version of his theme, even if kazoos totally do rule.

Santino Marella

Santino Marella doesn’t do a whole lot of things well. For a while, Santino was just about the worst at everything he tried to do.

This included singing.

Marella’s rendition of the late Amy Winehouse’s song “Rehab” still rings true to me and, in my mind, was among his greatest acts as a heel in WWE.

Marella was trying to insult the legendary Stone Cold Steve Austin, which we know by now is neither difficult to do nor a very wise idea. Marella would ridicule Austin’s role in the movie The Condemned. This wouldn’t culminate in a bout between The Cobra and The Texas Rattlesnake, but it would lead to a beer bath revival from Austin.

Heath Slater

He’s The One Man Band, baby!

Sure, he doesn’t really sing a whole lot, but his song during his segment with Cyndi Lauper and Roddy Piper was memorable enough that it could become something associated with Slater.

Slater has really grown to have a lot of fans in the last few months. Who knew that jobbing to a bunch of legendary superstars would vault your stock in the eyes of the fans?

Slater is channeling the fame of such infamous jobbers as Barry Horowitz and The Brooklyn Brawler, but Slater is more than just a jobber. He is a rising star that is paying his dues and will be something to talk about in the future of WWE.

Let’s be thrilled with the idea that he can wrestle better than he can sing.

3 Count

In the great wisdom that was the booking in WCW during the late 1990s, the company tried to capitalize on the trend of boy bands. How does one do that, you ask? By taking three cruiserweights and making them 3 Count, of course.

If you have never seen 3 Count before, it is worth it to look this up online.

The three members of 3 Count included the man who would go on to be known as The Hurricane in WWE circles. A moderate amount of success and actual songs recorded by the group would make this one of the more notorious groups in WCW history. Were they that good? No, but in comparison to the rest of WCW at the time, 3 Count could have been a heck of a lot worse.

Jillian Hall

I will give credit to Jillian Hall in one regard. Her gimmick as a wannabe pop star was brilliant.

It was certainly better than her original place as an advisor to JBL…who just happened to have an odd-looking growth on her cheek. The Boogeyman ate it and Jillian Hall would move on to another gimmick. That’s pretty much how it happened, people.

Even if she was intentionally bad, it was a constant way to generate heat for her. Hall even recorded some covers of songs and released them on iTunes. Whoever bought them for enjoyment were probably also the same people who would not have the ability to hear music, or any other audible sounds for that matter.

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