AEW Collision is a brand new weekly wrestling present from All Elite Wrestling that debuts this Saturday, June 17, at 8 p.m. Japanese on TNT. Immediately it’s been revealed that the present’s theme music is an Elton John traditional from Goodbye Yellow Brick Highway, “Saturday Night time’s Alright for Preventing.” Watch the present’s new opening credit sequence under.
Within the present televised wrestling panorama, John’s 1973 music is a tonal anomaly in a sea of nu-metal, rap rock, and hip-hop songs. Not each weekly wrestling present constantly opens with music—none of WWE’s reveals aired prior to now week featured a gap credit theme sequence. The large three WWE reveals have kicked off lately with songs by Slipknot, Poppy, Christian rapper NF, and Vince McMahon favorites AC/DC; the present listed WWE NXT theme is a generic rock instrumental referred to as “Shredder.” AEW’s other theme songs, for Wednesday’s Dynamite and Friday’s Rampage, are originals that underline the present’s titles (“That is Rampage, child;” “Gentle the fuse, convey the increase: Dynamite”).
As a four-year-old wrestling firm, AEW has differentiated itself from different promotions by licensing common songs for wrestlers’ entrance themes. Any given episode options Jefferson Starship’s “Jane” (Orange Cassidy), Kansas’ “Stick with it Wayward Son” (the Elite), X’s model of “Wild Factor” (Jon Moxley), Action Bronson’s “The Chairman’s Intent” (Hook), and extra. The present has ceaselessly welcomed musical friends, together with wrestling fanatic Westside Gunn.
“Elton John’s ‘Saturday Night time’s Alright for Preventing’ is the right music to kick off the return of Saturday night time wrestling to a Turner community for the primary time in over 20 years,” Tony Khan—AEW’s CEO, common supervisor, and head of inventive—mentioned in an announcement. “With the music’s iconic opening guitar riff and nostalgic wrestling power, it was my best choice to guide in Collision. It’s the last word intro to the thrilling storylines and hard-hitting wrestling motion that Collision will ship to followers on TNT each Saturday night time!”
Collision is a Saturday night time wrestling collection whose debut guarantees the return of a number of wrestlers from harm or hiatus, together with Miro, Andrade El Idolo, and most notably, CM Punk. Punk (whose entrance theme has been Residing Color’s “Cult of Persona” in AEW, WWE, and UFC) has been away from wrestling following an harm and reported backstage fight in September.
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