Stephanie Vaquer and 7 WWE Stars Who Need New Entrance Music
Entrance music is crucial to a wrestler's presentation, but many fans feel it's never been worse in WWE.
It's always apparent at the Royal Rumble when certain songs hit to indicate who's entering at which number and the crowd responds in silence. It's because the music is almost indistinguishable or just flat-out awful.
It was especially clear during this year's installment in Saudi Arabia when several notable names came out to crickets because their themes lack originality and excitement.
That isn't going to change until WWE addresses their entrance music epidemic.
It isn't a case of WWE needing to license actual music for entrances, either. It's understandable the company would want all of its music made in house, but the Def Rebel curse has hurt the aura of many members of the active roster.
For every banger it has produced for Roman Reigns and Iyo Sky, there are countless others who are at a disadvantage because their entrance tune is either ill-fitting or painfully generic.
Stephanie Vaquer
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It didn't take long at all for Stephanie Vaquer to get over with the WWE audience upon her arrival on the main roster last summer. Her badass theme music had a lot to do with that.
The presentation of her entrance was tweaked slightly, but otherwise, she was essentially the same as she was in NXT. There was no reason to fix what wasn't broken.
La Primera revealed in an interview with Chris Van Vliet soon after she debuted on Raw that she was told her theme music would be changing and she begged her boss from NXT, Shawn Michaels, to keep what she had been using.
The song did stay for several more months before ultimately being changed to a far-less intimidating rock tune made by Def Rebel on the Feb. 2 edition of Raw. Her last theme was actually a production song called "Bury Me" by Chris Egert, but WWE likely didn't want to license it anymore.
Vaquer is still a star, but she needs a new theme, or at least be allowed to use her old one.
Rusev
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Cody Rhodes returned to WWE following a six-year hiatus at WrestleMania 38, and more amazingly, it was as the "American Nightmare" character he had become synonymous with during his stint in All Elite Wrestling and on the independent scene.
Rusev tried to follow in his footsteps by coming back to the company as "The Redeemer," a gimmick he had some success with while in AEW. Even with a few fancy vignettes and being booked to look dominant, the WWE audience didn't take to it quite the same.
Perhaps the worst part of his presentation has been the subpar song he walks to the ring to.
The CFO$ entrance music he used for his first main roster run in WWE was both memorable and catchy. It may not fit his current character as well, but it would always generate a reaction from the crowd.
It's been nearly a year since Rusev returned to WWE, and crowds are still questioning who's coming out when his music begins to play. It's done him no favors.
Bayley
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It's borderline offensive that WWE hasn't updated Bayley's entrance music in the two years since she debuted her current one at WrestleMania XL.
At the onset of 2024, she turned face after spending five years as a heel, so it was appropriate to give her a tune befitting of the character change. WWE instead downgraded her music to something inferior, and tagging "Role Model" at the beginning of it makes it that much worse.
The booking of Bayley during her reign as WWE women's champion wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but it's not as if crowds had much to get excited about whenever her theme song blared over the arena.
Now that she's going back and forth between her hugger gimmick and her heel persona, she should alternate between the two themes since both are better than the garbage she's been subjected to as of late.
Becky Lynch received an awesome new song when she turned heel last year, so it shouldn't be difficult to put in an equal amount of effort and do something similar for Bayley.
Maxxine Dupri
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The Alpha Academy entrance music and the group as a whole have served Maxxine Dupri well for the last three years.
She was going nowhere fast while with Maximum Male Models but found her footing as a manager for Alpha Academy when she was recruited by them in 2023.
She improved in the ring and gradually got over as an underdog babyface, beating Becky Lynch for the Women's Intercontinental Championship in a shocker late last year.
Now that she's established her own identity, she should be coming out to entrance music different than what the rest of Alpha Academy uses. She can remain aligned with Akira Tozawa and Otis, but her character has evolved and her presentation should, too.
That would send the message to fans that she should be taken seriously and is more than just Alpha Academy's third wheel. She's actually surpassed them in terms of television time, so she should be given the full singles star treatment, complete with a new theme song.
Sheamus
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The entrance song situation with Sheamus has been dire for almost two years.
Of course, he famously used Jim Johnston's "Written In My Face" between 2009 and 2014 before transferring to "Hellfire" by CFO$ upon turning heel and overhauling his entire look. Both songs were strong and had longevity, but Sheamus was always adamant in interviews about wanting to use "Written In My Face" again, if only for old times' sake.
Shortly after returning from injury in 2024, he got his wish. He brought back the unforgettable tune in front of a crowd that clearly remembered based on their reaction, and it instantly made him feel fresh again.
It was no more than a few months later that he debuted new music by Def Rebel that paled in comparison, generously speaking. WWE has yet to right that wrong and no explanation has been provided as to why that is.
WWE doesn't see Sheamus as a priority and isn't going to care deeply about what song he uses, but it matters to the fans based on the negative feedback his theme receives every time he enters.
Jordynne Grace
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It was surreal for Jordynne Grace to not only enter the women's Royal Rumble in 2024 as an active TNA wrestler but also to do so with her own entrance music she had been using for years.
Mickie James laid the groundwork by wrestling in the Rumble two years prior while the TNA Knockouts world champion and coming out to her TNA theme, but she had already been with WWE prior. Grace had never made a single appearance in WWE before, so nothing about her presentation getting changed for the one-off was refreshing.
She kept the theme any time she popped up in NXT after that and even when she first signed with WWE in early 2025, but she eventually had to change her song to something that doesn't hit the same. Even her signature siren was removed, presumably because it sounded too similar to Bron Breakker's.
Grace is now on SmackDown and will have a tougher time getting over with the audience with the boring slop she's been given as entrance music. It's unknown what feeling or emotion it's intended to elicit because it's as basic as can be.
Seth Rollins
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Let the record show that Seth Rollins is the only one listed whose entrance theme is not atrocious or underwhelming. Rather, this is a case of him needing to change his song because it's long overstayed its welcome.
Wrestling fans, and specifically WWE fans, love singing along with a wrestler's entrance song. Rollins' is no exception, and to often-disdained Def Rebel's credit, they were in their element when they put it together.
It perfectly ushered in the era of The Visionary in 2021, but he outgrew that shtick a long time ago and it's time for him to use something different, more intense and less hokey.
He could return from injury doing the same shtick, and WWE may be in no rush to change it, but he should be more serious and dialed in than ever before coming off Bron Breakker's betrayal. A song along the lines of what he was coming out to post-Shield would complement him nicely.
He can bring back "The Vision" as his entrance music later down the road when fans are ready to hear it again, but the key to Rollins reinventing himself in the meantime is giving it a rest for a while and debuting an all-new song once he resurfaces.
Graham Mirmina, aka Graham "GSM" Matthews, has specialized in sports and entertainment writing since 2010. Visit his website, WrestleRant, and subscribe to his YouTube channel for more wrestling-related content.
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