KOTR ROUND Quarterfinals: Shawn Michaels vs. John Cena

by **lordofdiapers** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:17 am

Ted DiBiase has been slugging his way through this bracket, seems like everyone does have a price indeed. The Hitman's theme has made some serious moves, toppling tournament favorite Dude Love in the second round. Perhaps it's just me, but it is starting to feel like Bret's theme is the theme of destiny. This is gonna be a slobberknocker.

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by **Ebbnflo** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:32 am

I just did a very quick YouTube search and found only two matches between hart and dibiase. One of them ended up in a double countdown and the other one ended in a draw

I'm not sure what that says about million dollar man's lack of willingness to put bret over with a clean finish or get locked in the sharpshooter but this one's going to Hitman either way

If there were other matches available to be seen where a more decisive victory was called I would be interested in checking out

by **Bartatua** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:22 pm

it's bret

by **Ron** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:01 pm

I’m kinda surprised by how lopsided this is. Voted DiBiase. The laugh, the ladies, the voice over. It fits so perfectly.

Perhaps a controversial take, but I don’t really like Hitman’s. It’s not bad, but I feel like if Bret’s name wasn’t attached it wouldn’t even be on here.

by **Bartatua** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:24 pm

I'm surprised to see the bret theme make it so far but have voted for it every time too

by **walt** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:26 pm

When they added the guitar screech to bret’s theme it became legendary imo

by **buriedinspace** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:32 pm

Bret has the best instrumental, non-licensed, non-reiterative, non-classical theme in the tournament, I think.

by **Ron** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:34 pm

Throw some more qualifiers on there.

by **buriedinspace** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:38 pm

Ron wrote:Throw some more qualifiers on there.

I think they're all fair. I'm not about to say it's a better piece than Thus Spake or a classical piece and it feels hard to compare it to something like Cult of Personality or the DX theme.

I guess the reiterative mostly is in reference to FTR and to a lesser extent Hangman, both of which are very good.

by **Ron** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:42 pm

I was just kidding, buddy. I don’t even know what reiterative means.

by **buriedinspace** » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:47 pm

Ron wrote:I was just kidding, buddy. I don’t even know what reiterative means.

Sure. But it was a little fussy and I wanted to explain it.

I was using it in terms of themes that are playing off of a previous piece of music (FTR with the Midnights and Moroder, Hangman with the Ecstacy of Gold)