Iconic Composer Explains Why Odds Of A WWE Return Are “Close To Zero”
If there’s a WWE theme you love, odds are Jim Johnston either had a hand in creating it or composed it himself. That’s why it came as such a shock when WWE decided to let him go. It’s even more surprising when you dicover, despite his tenure, Johnston didn’t want to leave. He’d even come back if he had the opportunity, but the composer doesn’t think Triple H has any interest in working with him again.
Why WWE Will Never Rehire Jim Johnston
Even when Johnston worked in WWE he didn’t speak to the public much, so interviews with him are few and far between. In the most recent of those rare interviews with All Axxess Entertainment, Johnston revealed that he’d be open to returning to WWE to pick up where he left off composing new themes for the company, but despite his undeniable talent, he’s almost certainly not wanted.
“I’d be happy to do it, but you have to be asked. I think the chances that [Triple H]’s going to ask are close to zero,” Johnston told All Axxess. “That the WWE Music Group is going to call me up, I think, is zero, and the guy who is currently doing the themes I think is zero.”
The composer relays a couple of reasons why he believes Triple H isn’t his biggest fan. The first, and the reason he believes he hasn’t been invited back, is because he is perceived as a Vince McMahon guy. When McMahon was effectively ousted and Triple H took over creative, a lot of people backstage who were intrinsically tied to the former chairman went along with him.
Triple H Wants Motorhead To Have All The Credit For His Themes
That’s not the only reason Johnston has for believing The Game doesn’t like him. Johnston also notes that Triple H has a hang up about who exactly deserves the credit for composing his iconic themes. “[Triple H] wants to maintain and think Motorhead wrote those songs,” Johnston noted, claiming he had a hand in writing those songs alongside the British rockers. That’s presumably the head of creative’s most famous theme, The Game, and the one he typically uses when he’s not wrestling, so the one that gets more airtime nowadays, King of Kings.
Motorhead, and potentially Johnston, also wrote and performed Line in the Sand for Evolution.
If Johnston is right and he really is stuck on the outside looking in due to some one-sided personal beef, Triple H needs to swallow his pride and bring him back on board. The current state of WWE themes is not great and somehow getting worse. Just this week, Zilla Fatu came to the ring scored by something that has been accused of sounding AI-generated.
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