Samoa Joe Talks About His Name And Entrance Theme

‘The Samoan Submission Machine’ Samoa Joe recently spoke to Chris Jericho on his podcast ‘Talk is Jericho’. He told that he was scheduled to be given a different name. He also talked about his entrance theme;

Source – WrestlingINC

“No, no, never [was Joe going to have a bogus name like ‘Dax Phoenix’ in WWE]. It was always the case [that he was going to be Samoa Joe]. I mean, well, and I tell guys too, I had made the effort before I came here to like trademark my name and everything, which makes the process easier because it’s like if I own it, then it’s easier for me to lease to WWE or let them use it, so guys who don’t own their names, I don’t care how long you’ve been under it, if you don’t own your name, it’s not you.”

On the subject of his entrance music, Joe acknowledged that he had a hand in providing some ideas and feedback.

“So the original music, I kind of threw out some samples and some ideas and they came back with this original music. I remember, it was Hunter that kind of called me like, ‘can you give me some ideas, some genres and stuff you dig and we’ll work from there?’ So I kind of told him some of my past themes. One of them was Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., ‘Another Body Murdered’ from some soundtrack and another one was ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ by LL Cool J. And I kind of gave them all these things and said, ‘work with that.'” Joe added, “when I first heard the music, I was like ‘meh, I don’t really dig it. I don’t really dig it.’ And I remember Hunter came up to me, ‘you don’t really dig your music?’ and I went, ‘no, I don’t.’ Then he goes, ‘okay, give me a sample of what you want.’ So I gave him a few samples and one of them was Pharoahe Monch’s… this Pharoahe Monch track that I had. Pharoahe Monch, it’s called ‘Simon Says’ and it’s really heavy and I used to use the intro all the time. It was basically the old Toho Godzilla intro slowed down. And then, they looped it in this, so I kind of gave them that and I remember CFO$ within a couple of days had ‘oh, this is perfect!’ and they had the new track done.”