Hulk Hogan Claiming To Be The Innovator Of WWE Entrance Music

Hulk Hogan’s accolades and achievements in pro wrestling are well documented, as are his blatant lies and bizarre claims. Now, the ‘Hulkster’ is claiming he innovated the use of entrance music in WWE.

Appearing on the Try That in a Small Town podcast, Hogan claims he brought entrance music to WWE for his WWF Championship win over The Iron Sheik in Madison Square Garden in 1984:

“But the cool thing about it was, they told me no music. So I went to the sound guy. I said, ‘The hell with this. Eye of The Tiger, crank it.’ I gave him 500 bucks. When that music started, that [hums guitar riff] the roof of the place blew off. Then I told Vince, I said, ‘Man, I’ve been selling merchandise, T-shirts, headbands, hats, koozies and wristbands and making a ton of money doing it, because nobody else is.’ Vince picked up on it real quick, and it just took off and then everybody wanted entrance music. So Jimmy Hart sat up all night, most nights, writing entrance music for all the wrestlers,” claimed Hogan.

Stars such as Mildred Burke and Gorgeous George had entrance music in the 1950s, whilst Sgt. Slaughter is believed to have been the first wrestler in WWE to make his entrance to a music track back in the 1970s.

In terms of popularising entrance music in the 1980s, some give that accolade to The Road Warriors, whose Black Sabbath Iron Man entrance is legendary, whilst The Fabulous Freebirds and The Von Erichs in WCCW also helped make entrance music vital. And yes, whilst Hogan was not the innovator of entrance music, you could argue that the controversial star helped popularise it during the 1980s.

H/T: ITR Wrestling

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