{"id":299272,"date":"2025-10-13T06:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299272\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:46:15","slug":"real-american-debuts-but-thats-not-hulk-hogan-walking-out-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299272\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Real American\u2019 debuts, but that\u2019s not Hulk Hogan walking out, brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Forty years ago today, Hulk Hogan\u2019s iconic entrance theme \u201cReal American\u201d debuted on WWE TV \u2014 just not for the Hulkster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the fall of 1985, WWE released its first full musical album, The Wrestling Album, featuring songs performed by WWE Superstars. Highlights included a rare face-and-heel collab \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oHZCcu9ltcs?si=OuD8F7Q1winxtUc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land of a Thousand Dances<\/a>\u201d and Junkyard Dog\u2019s funky \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7RnhG7PtK1w?si=m_r4DO8BvItfRNMw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grab Them Cakes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But the standout track was \u201cReal American,\u201d originally written for former tag champs Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda \u2014 the U.S. Express. However, after Windham left the company, WWE was left with a great theme simply collecting dust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By the end of the year, it found a new home with Hulk Hogan, replacing his previous theme, Survivor\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U1MLQ8dVt5k?si=6LJ56sv-MgasvlCa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eye of the Tiger<\/a>\u201d from the movie Rocky III, which featured Hogan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For trivia buffs, Hogan first used the song ahead of a match against arguably his greatest rival, \u201cMacho Man\u201d Randy Savage, at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 30, 1985.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As WWE phased out licensed tracks in favor of original in-house themes, \u201cReal American\u201d rose to legendary status \u2014 the benchmark for all entrance music, even in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty years ago today, Hulk Hogan\u2019s iconic entrance theme \u201cReal American\u201d debuted on WWE TV \u2014 just not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64805,158,67,132,68,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-299272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-cageside-seats-features","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115365516730196047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}