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Red Hot Chili Peppers were nearly X-Pac’s WWE theme song, but he rejected them

Red Hot Chili Peppers do his wrestling theme song.Alternative music within the pro-wrestling was very common within the height of the sport in the early 00s. For example, Disturbed recorded a version of ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin’s entrance theme and bands such as Limp Bizkit, Saliva, Motörhead and Drowning Pool performed at WWE’s biggest event, Wrestlemania.Speaking to Chris Van Vliet in a new interview, X-Pac – real name Sean Waltman – opened up about how he turned down having the rock aristocrats create a theme song for X-Factor, his professional wrestling stable he founded in early 2001 with fellow WWE wrestlers Justin Credible and Albert.“Shane McMahon comes up to me and goes, ‘Hey, we’re thinking about having Red Hot Chili Peppers do your new theme music,'” he told Van Vliet, “and I go, ‘No, I want Uncle Kracker!'”After being asked if the Red Hot Chili Peppers were really “in line” to record the track, X-Pac replied: “When they say something like that, and especially at that point that where WWE was, we were pretty hot.”He continued: “I was the one that picked Uncle Kracker, because I knew him, and that’s kinda how I was at the time.”X-Factor would go on to be a short lived group within WWE.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers were nearly X-Pac’s WWE theme song, but he rejected them
Red Hot Chili Peppers do his wrestling theme song.Alternative music within the pro-wrestling was very common within the height of the sport in the early 00s. For example, Disturbed recorded a version of ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin’s entrance theme and bands such as Limp Bizkit, Saliva, Motörhead and Drowning Pool performed at WWE’s biggest event, Wrestlemania.Speaking to Chris Van Vliet in a new interview, X-Pac – real name Sean Waltman – opened up about how he turned down having the rock aristocrats create a theme song for X-Factor, his professional wrestling stable he founded in early 2001 with fellow WWE wrestlers Justin Credible and Albert.“Shane McMahon comes up to me and goes, ‘Hey, we’re thinking about having Red Hot Chili Peppers do your new theme music,'” he told Van Vliet, “and I go, ‘No, I want Uncle Kracker!'”After being asked if the Red Hot Chili Peppers were really “in line” to record the track, X-Pac replied: “When they say something like that, and especially at that point that where WWE was, we were pretty hot.”He continued: “I was the one that picked Uncle Kracker, because I knew him, and that’s kinda how I was at the time.”X-Factor would go on to be a short lived group within WWE.
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Former WWE star Ember Moon 'doesn't want to dress sexy in front of kids'
WWE superstar Ember Moon has hit out at her previous bosses after being told she had to “dress sexy” - like fellow female star Mandy Rose.Ember Moon, whose real name is Adrienne Reese and now goes by the ring name Athena, was released by WWE on November 4, 2021.She had been with the company since 2015, and had mainly spent her run on the NXT brand with a supernatural war goddess gimmick.But the 33-year-old told Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast that she was hauled into a meeting shortly before she left – having not been on television for months - and was told she would have to “dress sexy”.She said: “When you care about something, not just for yourself but for everyone involved, it hurts so much more because, for so many years, I've been not about myself.“I've been for the match and other people.“To be told that I've done nothing wrong and I was taken off TV for doing nothing wrong, it hurt so bad because I was so happy walking into work.“I remember when Shotzi left (NXT to go to Smackdown), I remember going to my makeup artist and saying, 'I am so unhappy.'“We would have to sit through stupid meetings about how we'd have to dress sexy.“I remember looking at someone else and laughing - I cater to children.“I'm not about to wear fishnet booty butt-cheek shorts because we had a two-hour meeting about how to dress like Mandy Rose - that's not fair.“Mandy is absolutely phenomenal and an amazing person, but not everyone is Mandy Rose.“I got so angry.”Mandy, whose real name is Amanda Rose Saccomanno, was known as a blonde-haired beauty – almost goddess-like in her appearance – until she suffered an injury a few years ago, and while she possesses good in-ring ability, she was utilised more for other assets she
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