There’s a lot you can say about the direction of WWE. The creative has been uninspired. The matches are few and far between amidst a sea of commercials. Ticket prices are out of hand. And perhaps worst of all, it’s just not as good as AEW has been lately. So how are people going to get hyped for an upcoming Wrestlemania when consumer happiness has gone down precipitously?
You get the Canadians, of course. Well, a certain group of Canadians performing as a rock group under the name Nickelback, anyway.
According to a post from WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque, the massive wrestling promotion has chosen Nickelback’s song “Bones for the Crows” as the theme music for this year’s major pro wrestling event.
“They’ve rocked with us for over 20 years, and their new song will soundtrack the Grandest Stage of Them All.”
This isn’t the first time the Canucks have been tapped to promote and hype up a wrestling event. Back in the day, Nickelback provided a theme song for their weekly show Monday Night Raw. For the last six years, the promotion has relied on pop artist The Weeknd for the Wrestlemania theme, so this is an upgrade as far as we’re concerned…