What themes does WWE no longer have the rights to?

Anytime a guy used an actual song for his theme, I think it's been replaced in DVDs and media. For instance, Edge's Rob Zombie theme from years ago is missing, if I'm not mistaken. Old ECW compilations feature the wrestler's WWE theme rather than the song they entered to (for instance, Pantera or Pearl Jam).

Otherwise, I'm not sure. I know some themes have been replaced over the years in DVDs that have surprised me, but not sure about them at the moment.

I've been wondering about this lately also. I picked up the first 3 Wrestlemania Anthologies a few months back when I caught them on sale and was very disappointed with how many enterance themes had been changed on them. It's pretty crappy watching Demolition come out to that lousy music and canned crowd chants.

I think it comes down to who's producing the DVD. WWE has different teams that produce different DVDs. Even though they owned the music, they didn't anticipate the success of DVD and let the rights to some of the music expire thinking they wouldn't need it. Whatever production team in charge of that DVD decides what music to pay for. In 2003 there were some DVD's that had Booker T & Trish Stratus' music done over, but the next release they were back to normal. Just like a lot of themes on the WM box set (Bossman, Slick, Demolition, Dusty Rhodes, etc.) were replaced with cheaper alternitives, while on the Royal Rumble box set, they remain intact. I'm betting since then WWE has gotten the rights to use the music again. It's like how when a TV show comes out on DVD and the theme music is replaced. But then again WWE probably thinks that as long as you have the matches you will be happy. I mean we're talking about the same company who would rather take the time blur out half the screen and bleep every mention of the letter f, than come to a settlement sooner. I'm sure they think "If we release it, they will buy it regardless", which I can't blame them for because it's pretty much true.

I always wonder about the Hardy's & Hardcore Holly's. I feel like I hear one of those on a reality show every few weeks.

Undertaker's Rolling theme by Limp Bizkit and Aint No Grave by Johnny Cash have been edited out of his Streak DVD.

Yup.

They also use a modified version of it in WWE '13 as well.

Big Boss Man 'Hard Times' I believe is now missing from anthology sets.

The Big Bossman's "Servin' Hard Times" theme was only dubbed over on the WrestleMania Anthology. On the Royal Rumble and SummerSlam Anthology sets, it was kept intact.

As for Demolition, look at what I wrote above.

"Jive Soul Bro", it was kept intact beginning on the SummerSlam Anthology.

With some of these dubbed songs, you can still hear the original music if you listen close enough. Two examples is "Jive Soul Bro" at WrestleMania V and "Servin' Hard Times" at WrestleMania VII.

On a side note, if you pause frame by frame, you can see glimpses on the WWF Scratch logo. On newer releases, the scratch logo won't be blurred out. Case in point, the recent Attitude Era DVD/Blu-Ray.

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