After being away for over a year due to a severe back injury, Randy Orton made his WWE return at Survivor Series last November. Orton’s theme song could have changed if things had gone a better way.
It was reported last December that before a December 8th SmackDown, a change was considered from the familiar “Voices” song. At the time, it was reported that after Orton and management talked over the potential change, it was shut down.
It was not the new Rev Theory version either, as it had “no music off the top and limited lyrics.” It was nixed after one playthrough.
A new report will be coming out from Corey Brennan on Fightful Select later this week with complete details, but he did share on a recent stream that Orton was not a fan of the Def Rebel-made theme song and nixed it within minutes of hearing it.
“I’m seeing my Twitter absolutely blow up because I said that I was doing I was working on a Def Rebel report for less than two weeks. And so far, the only thing that I can talk about, yet obviously it’s it’s all going to be a new report. I’m still working on it, but the one thing I can confirm now is that when Randy Orton returned, they considered a change in his theme music. At the time, I couldn’t find out who produced it. But it was supposed to be a Def Rebel-produced remix of Voices. I saw someone say on Twitter as well. Randy probably turned around and said that does ‘work for me, brother.’ That’s essentially what happened. Randy was not having that theme. It was Randy, Triple H and Michael Hayes. And within 10 minutes will be played through in the arena one of my sources of went, ‘Yeah, that’s not being used.'”
He added that they didn’t even get through a full play-through because, at the time, “Randy didn’t have it in regards to the song.
