What is the Best Ring Entrance Music?
by Drunken cutman on Jan 30, 2010 5:37 PM EST
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PrintFrom the generic gangster rap to the equally generic heavy rock we don't hear a great deal of original or particularly good ring walk music. The Germans have a thing about the Scorpions, some boxers have raps written about them and even performed live, Ricky Hatton has his kind of funny the first time Ricky Fatton song, sometimes someone frankly undeserving comes out to Roy Jones' Can't Be Touched and 9/10 it's nothing great.
However sometimes the boxer picks something you really like, or is funny or just a nice change. What do you think are the best examples of this?
Or what would you walk out to? I would come out to Pendulum's Blood Sugar in it's entirety and walk slowly whilst raving.
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I generally hate heavy metal, but I’ve always thought Metallica’s "For Whom the Bell Tolls," with its pun on the idea of a bell ringing, of “having your bell rung,” and the ominous John Donne reference, would make a great ring entrance song. Never heard anyone use it.
The kind of music I generally listen to at home—jazz, country blues, and old school Motown and funk—generally doesn’t fit well with the idea of a boxing match.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
Could “Hell’s Bells” also work? I’ve always enjoyed Trevor Hoffman’s use of that song. Very different context, but I think it would still work in boxing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M1qvyjRVwA&feature=fvw
Honestly, I think Sandstorm is prolly my favorite.
That first video
I worry about you that you know of these things!
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 31, 2010 8:39 AM EST up reply actions
Also it's not nearly as good as Genki Sudo's effort
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-1e56eyHNI
Which I think you may actually have first posted. That man can dance!
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 31, 2010 8:41 AM EST up reply actions
Arthur Abraham walking into the Smurfs theme
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
I thought Chad Dawson coming out to Lupe Fiasco’s “Superstar” was clever for the first Glenn Johnson fight because the chorus probably was a perfect expression of his mindset going into his first big fight: “If you are what you say you are, a superstar, then have no fear, the camera’s here.”
That is rather clever
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 31, 2010 4:26 AM EST up reply actions
In The Air Tonight: little bit cheesy, but if you can cut the song down so the drum beat starts when you get halfway down – that’d be pretty cool. I think Devon Alexander came out to that against Junior Witter.
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
As cheesy and cliche as it is
Eye of the Tiger is also badass. I think I’d flip shit if someone came out to the Mortal Kombat theme song as well.
Fight!!
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
I think you've got the order wrong..... :)
Then again, my memory could be flawed….
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
Kano, Liu Kang, Raiden, Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub Zero, Sonya....
From memory I could have sworn Scorpion and Sub-Zero were the other way round…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnJyKQACXA
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
Good effort!! :)
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
song's about scrambling, right up my alley -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMnES7WoT4
"Yes Gina, I am a Wise Cracker"
And there's always this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTBPdVpdMc
Homer Simpson’s when he fought Tyson
"Yes Gina, I am a Wise Cracker"
hatton -
the Blue Moon song is excellent, even though its really from Manchester City’s fans. but its a terrific version they play – and for the Castillo fight 2 years ago, they started off with a mix of Winston Churchill’s famous “we shall fight them on the beaches” speech, which preceeded the Blue Moon, then Ricky appeared, just an electric ring entrance. being english of course maybe a bit biased . . . . ha!
Froch walks out to ‘we will rock you’/queen which although unusual gets everyone pumping.
thanks lads/cloughie
Holmes would come down th runway with"This Is It" playing. I kind of liked that. Gave things a sense of urgency.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Feb 1, 2010 11:51 PM EST reply actions
I thought when Mosley came into Live Your Life (Dance Mix) – T.I.
it was pretty tight given that I thought he had no chance of winning the fight…
"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPNLI8KAidY
"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."
born in the USA
when Mayweather came out to born in the usa when he fought hatton was classic. The brits were everywhere that night. It is the same night they booed our National Athem. Great timing, for Mayweather to pick that song.
It is the same night they booed our National Athem
Yeah…sorry about that.
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Feb 2, 2010 5:34 PM EST up reply actions
That song isn’t exactly patriotic. I agree it was awesome, though.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
Momma said knock you out by LL Cool J (corny, but germane)
Second Round KO by Canibus (only if Iron Mike is walking out to it though)
Watch for the Hook by Cool Breeze
Lots of Ruff Ryders, DMX, LOX etc…
Ricky Hatton came closer to beating Manny Pacquiao than Marquez did to beating Floyd.
-SC
Whatever song this guy was singing
Starting around 1:30…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgg1L3zTw8Q
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Or even better
The Timothy Bradley rapper. Poor guy’s never gonna get a record deal, and probably will always just be known as the Timothy Bradley rapper.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
by Brickhaus on Feb 2, 2010 7:18 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Dangerous - I am dangerous
I remember Nigel Benn walking in to this old reggae tune by Conroy Smith. Lewis also used to walk into the Marley tune Crazy Baldheads which is another classic
Something belligerent yet serene
Tool’s ‘Sober’ , Karma to Burn’s ‘Mt Penetrator’ , Kuyss’ ‘Demon Cleaner’, or Electric Wizard’s ‘Priestess of Mars’.
Back in the 80’s I used to listen to the Cult’s ‘Phoenix’ or some straight edge punk, Agnostic Front did the trick.
"Anytime you go thirty rounds with a guy, try to kill each other, and have the utmost respect for each other, no one understands that, but guys who have been to war understand it." - Micky Ward on Arturo Gatti.
The Ones- Absolutely Flawless.....
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
i would come out to ulver’s “christmas”
Texans 19-0 in 2010-2011 season PERIOD
by battle axe of doom on Feb 7, 2010 11:22 PM EST reply actions
Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper
I remember laughing quite hard when Naseem Hamed used to come out to this.
If I had to step in the ring today would probably come out to something like “Underdog” by Kasabian – the intro is mental.
"Time 4 Sun Aktion" by Redman
…as played by Mike Tyson in his later days. (And also played by Drederick Tatum in that Simpsons episode where Homer becomes a boxer. Natch.)
Or, “Glamour Sho75 (09)” by J Dilla. No one’s used it yet, but just wait:
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