15. The nWo
Greatest entrance
Event: WWE No Way Out 2003
Date: February 23, 2003
Venue: Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Theme Used: āRockhouseā by Frank Shelly
Weāve reached the halfway point on our countdown, and at No. 15Ā comes one of the most popular wrestling factions of all time, the group that single-handedly sparked the Monday Night Wars reshaped the future of pro wrestling: The New World Order, or just nWo for short.
As the story goes, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash arrived in WCW making it appear that the WWE was invading their competition. They eventually added āHollywoodā Hulk Hogan to the group and the whole thing blew up from there, creating arguably the biggest faction (if not in popularity, then certainly size) in the history of professional wrestling.
While āRockhouseā by Frank Shelly is probably the most recognizable nWo theme, they had many, including Jimi Hendrixās āVoodoo Childā for Hogan as well as the āWolfpacā theme song that was created by Jimmy Hart.
The nWo entrances in WCW were a big long production, taking these guys forever to get to the ring, but you were glued to your seat and entertained, throwing up āToo Sweetā hand gestures with your friends and wondering what they were going to say or do. Their entrance wasnāt nearly as popular in the WWE but the black and white effects for the entrance there gave it a way to stand out from the rest of the company at the time. While the nWo wasnāt a huge deal in WWE, there was another group, however, that very much was during the same time period.