Continuing from where we left off in Part 1, let us now look at the top 5 wrestlers who have made it into the list of Top Ten WWE Entrances of All Time.
5. Goldberg
One of the best things WCW could boast about during their final years was Bill Goldberg. Goldberg, infamous for his undefeated streak of 173-0, had enjoyed the best of time in Pro-Wrestling. Apart from this streak the thing that set him apart was his entrance. Goldberg’s entrance was one of the most enthralling ones and literally got everyone in the arena or behind the TV on their feet.
Goldberg’s entrance was highly unusual and was one of a kind. Despite the fact that it was long, every moment of the entrance was entertaining. The music would start long before Goldberg’s entrance. The crowd would start the Goldberg chants and the entrance will start from his room backstage. The chants would continue right till the end which clearly indicated how much the fans loved watching this superstar enter.
Here’s an intimidating entrance video of Bill Goldberg.
4. Undertaker
As a WWE fan, there is no way that you will not have seen Undertaker’s entrance. Considered to be one of the most famous WWE entrances of all time, Undertaker brought upon a sense of fear in the entire arena with his entrance. While we have seen plenty of different entrances of The Undertaker, each one of them have been an amazing sight for fans. Frankly, I don’t think there is anything more intimidating than Undertaker’s entry especially in Wrestlemania, where he holds an undefeated 20-0 streak.
The moment you hear the gong, you know for sure what is going to happen next. Despite the awareness, the darkening of the arena and the purple lights does somehow make it a spine chilling affair. As the gong continues one after the other and then with a long trench coat and hat, down comes The Undertaker to make his descent towards the ring. The most successful part of his entrance is the way Undertaker has managed to carry the gimmick right from his entry.
Witness the Dead Man making his way into the ring in this video.
3. Sandman
Known as the ‘Hardcore Icon’, Sandman is known to generate the greatest reaction from the crowd during his entrance. In fact, fans are so excited to see this extreme wrestler that they literally sing out his entrance theme.
His entrance theme ‘Enter Sandman’ by Metallica is widely remembered as fans loved singing it as he made his entrance. Sandman was known for his unusual entrances as he never made them through the conventional way. Instead, Sandman would appear somewhere in the middle of the crowd and then drink beer and smash the beer can on his head multiple times.
His ECW ‘One Night Stand’ entrance in 2005 was one of the most memorable ones and Tommy Dreamer’s reaction in this video says it all.
2. DX With the New Age Outlaws
Well no matter what list you make, you just can’t keep these people out can you? The New Age Outlaws, or more preferably, the DX had one of the most reactive entrances of all time. They never had anything flashy in their entrance, neither did they have a great entrance music. The thing that made it for them was their so called entrance speech.
An attitude era fan would die for this entrance as it was one that would drive him crazy. The words “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and the children of all ages, D-generation X proudly brings to you the Road Dogg Jesse James the bad ass Billy Gunn – the NEW AGE OUTLAWS. If your not down with that ,we got two words for you, S*** IT” is the loudest thing I have heard till date as every soul in the arena would go about screaming these words as Outlaws recited them.
Here’s one of their greatest entrances and without doubt one of the greatest entrances in WWE history.
1. The Brood
Personally, I would consider this the greatest entrance in WWE. Every time I saw Gangrel, Edge and Christian enter, it made me blasphemous. These three surely knew what they represented, there was a time when I believed them to be vampires (Gangrel especially, as he spit blood out of his mouth).
The way The Brood rose into the stage on a platform seriously did make a lot of people feel they were rising from hell. With the intimidating presence of Gangrel and his wicked smile, everything in this entrance was a complete epic. The music, the lighting and the fire surrounding these three men’s platform as they rose everything perfectly matched their gimmick.
The Brood was one of the most remembered faction around mainly because it threw spotlight on two future wrestlers namely Edge and Christian. Gangrel’s act of drinking blood from the chalice and spitting it out is very similar to what Triple H does with the water today.
Witness this epic entrance in the video below.
Entrances that also deserved to be on the list.
Triple H
I know a lot of you must be protesting the non-inclusion of Triple H in this list and frankly Triple H’s entrances were by far one of the best. But there were ten other better than this. Triple H has given us some great entrances in Wrestlemania and I thoroughly enjoyed them. But I had to think otherwise when it came to his entrance’s inclusion in the Top 10.
Triple H’s entrance theme by Motorhead is without doubt one of the most commonly listened to and I, as a kid, loved singing it along during his entrance. His legendary act of spitting out water has made me try and enact the same several times in the shower and I hope it’s the same with you. To all HHH fans. Here’s the Cerebral Assassin’s entrance for you.
nWo (New World Order)
There is only one term that can be synonymous to the nWo and that is swag. Every time they entered, they brought along a great deal of heat. Despite the fact that they were the best heels, they generated a lot of noise in every entrance of theirs.
Known for their unpredictability, the New World Order had a very simple entrance but the coolness and attitude that each wrestler in this faction brought especially Hogan, Hall and Nash gave their entrances a completely different look.
With cigars in their mouth and swag written all over their entrance it is sad that we will not witness anything this cool ever again in the WWE today. Here’s the baddest stable in WWE history to make their way to the ring. Hopefully they weren’t as high as they seem in this video.
